Slim’s Early Military Career
Commissioned into the 9th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment in August 1914, William Slim first saw action at Cape Helles in July 1915 during the Gallipoli Campaign. Although casualty rates ...
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Slim’s Early Life
Born in 1891, into a family of modest means in Bishopston, then a village on the outskirts of Bristol (now entirely merged in the City’s sprawl), Slim was an unlikely candidate for commissioned ...
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The Military Medal of Captain (QGO) Ramprasad Pun MM, 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
The Brunei Revolt of 1962 and subsequent Borneo Confrontation, lasting until 1966, saw a significant number of gallantry awards made to Gurkha soldiers, including, in 1965, a Victoria Cross to Lance ...
Gurkhas at Ahnai Tangi – 14 January 1920
In the aftermath of the First World War a great deal of unrest occurred on the North-West Frontier between India and Afghanistan. The brief 3rd Anglo-Afghan War occurred in 1919 and much of 1920 and ...
Gurkhas and the First World War
Deployment Prior to the outbreak of the First World War the existing 10 Gurkha Regiments of the Gurkha Brigade had only served in Europe once, very briefly on Malta and Cyprus in 1878. ...
The Brunei Revolt and The Borneo Confrontation
In 1962 the island of Borneo comprised four different states: Kalimantan, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei. The latter three were British supported territories. In ...
Gurkhas and the Second World War
Gurkhas at War On the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, Gurkhas were immediately deployed in service of the British War effort. Gurkha soldiers saw service in three main combat theatres: ...
Gurkhas and the Falklands War
Operation CORPORATE Attempting to assert sovereignty over the disputed islands, on the 2nd April 1982 Argentinian troops invaded the Falkland Islands. After the initial shock, the British Government ...
