Ganju Lama VC
Enlisted into 7th Gurkha Rifles (7GR) during the Second World War, Ganju Lama was posted to join the 1st Battalion (1/7 GR) in northeast India. Their mission was to push back and clear Japanese ...
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A lecture and lunch on the Hunza–Nagar Campaign
15th October 2024
A real-life “Ripping Yarn” - Hunza-Nagar, 1891 At the furthest North-West extremity of British India, “Where Three Empires Meet” (British, Chinese, and Russian), lay the Kingdoms of Hunza ...
The Anglo-Nepal Treaty of 1923
Celebrating and reflecting upon one hundred years of an enduring friendship “There shall be perpetual peace and friendship between the Governments of Great Britain and Nepal, and the two ...
George Wheeler VC
Regiment 9th Gurkha Rifles Date 23rd February 1917 See more Gurkha Victoria Cross stories here
The story behind this Gurkha family
Recently we were sent an image online asking if we could identify who was in it and its story. The only lead we had was the caption given to it by the National Army Museum. ‘Photograph, India, ...
Lachhiman Gurung VC
Regiment 9th Gurkha Rifles Campaign Burma Campaign Date 11th/12th May 1945 See more Gurkha Victoria Cross stories here
George Channer VC
Regiment 1st Goorkha Regiment Campaign Perak Campaign Date 20th December 1875 See more Gurkha Victoria Cross stories here
John Manners-Smith VC
Regiment 5th Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment Campaign Hunza-Naga Campaign Date 20th December 1891 See more Gurkha Victoria Cross stories here
Richard Ridgeway VC
Regiment 44th (Sylhet) Light Infantry (A predecessor to 8th Gurkha Rifles) Campaign Basuto War (Konoma, India) Date 22nd November 1879 See more Gurkha Victoria Cross stories here
