Major Donald Macintyre VC
Regiment Bengal Staff Corps attached to 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles Campaign Looshai Expedition Date 4th January 1872 Learn about more Gurkha Victoria Cross stories ...
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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 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) in 1858. Boisragon followed in ...
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 promoted to Captain, he joined the 5th Goorkha Regiment. Five years later, the ...
Rambahadur Limbu VC
Regiment 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles Campaign Borneo Confrontation Date 21st November 1965 Learn about more Gurkha Victoria Cross stories here.
Gurkhas and Afghanistan, 1839-1947
Gurkhas and Afghanistan, 1839-1947 With the recent close of operations in Afghanistan, the 4th major period of British Gurkha involvement in Afghanistan has ended. Historically Gurkha soldiers ...
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 section commander with the 2nd Battalion of 5RGR during action in the Chin ...
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 7th Gurkha Rifles to the ‘7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha ...
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 up through Mesopotamia and from Egypt into Palestine. The first months of ...
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 King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (the Sirmoor Rifles). The action ...
