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, ...
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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
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 ...
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.
