History & Collections
Major Donald Macintyre VC – Looshai – 4th January 1872
Born at Kincraig House, Ross-Shire in the Scottish Highlands on the 12th September 1831, Donald Macintryre married Angleica, ...
Lieutenant Guy Huddleston Boisragon VC – 2nd December 1891 – Hunza Campaign, 1891.
Guy Boisragon was born in Kohat in Punjab in November 1864, the son of a Major-General who had founded what would become the ...
Captain John Cook VC: 2nd December 1878 – Afghanistan 1878-80
Born in Edinburgh in 1843, John Cook was commissioned in 1860. In March 1973, after a series of other postings and being ...
Lance Corporal Rambahadur Limbu – The only living Gurkha VC recipient
Born at Chyangthapu in Eastern Nepal in 1939, Rambahadur Limbu enlisted in the 2nd Battalion of the 10th Princess Mary’s ...
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 ...
