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Gurkhas and Afghanistan, 1839-1947
Gurkhas and Afghanistan, 1839-1947 With the recent close of operations in Afghanistan, the 4th major period of British ...
The Battle of Kalunga
Anglo Nepal War | October – November 1814 Sometimes called Nalapani, The hill fort of Kalunga was garrisoned by about 600 ...
Sharqat Day
1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles 1918 It was in the final stages of the campaign in Mesopotamia during World War ...
The Battle of Koonja
The Rams Head insignia worn by RGR has its origins in the Battle of Koonja, fought on October 3rd 1824. Bandits (known as ...
Gurkha V.C. In Burma – Agansing Rai.
Agansing Rai was born in 1920 and recruited into the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) in 1941. He rose to become a ...
Gurkhas and the Fall of Tobruk – 21st June 1942
The port city of Tobruk in Libya, North Africa, was of crucial strategic importance to both the Allied and Axis forces in ...
Gurkha Victoria Crosses – Fighting with the Chindits – Michael Allmand.
Michael Allmand was born in 1923 and, though young, responded enthusiastically when called up for military service in 1942, ...
Gurkhas and the Empire Gallantry Medal and George Cross
Naik Nandlal Thapa and Lance Naik Chitrabahadur Gurung. Over the course of its history, 26 Victoria Crosses, the ...
Gurkhas at Potsangbam – May 12th-15th 1944
On 12th May 1944, 1st Battalion 10th Gurkha Rifles (1/10GR) undertook what has been described as ‘one of the ...
The Brigade of Gurkhas and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
Prince Philip’s connections to the Brigade of Gurkhas are perhaps most famously exampled by the retitling of the ...
Rifleman Karanbahadur Rana VC and the action at El-Kefr, Palestine
By early 1918 British and Allied forces had placed Ottoman Turkish troops on the defensive on all fronts, advancing steadily ...
Subedar Lalbahadur Thapa V.C. and the Battle of Wadi Akarit
The first award of a Victoria Cross to a Gurkha soldier during the Second World War was to Subedar Lalbahadur Thapa of 2nd ...
