Gurkha Rifles
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Gurkha Rifles may refer to any of a number of regiments of Gurkha
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Gurkha
Gurkha are people from Nepal who take their name from the Gorkha District. Gurkhas are best known for their history in the Indian Army's Gorkha regiments, the British Army's Brigade of Gurkhas and the Nepalese Army. Gurkha units are closely associated with the kukri, a forward-curving Nepalese knife...
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- 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
- 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army on India's independence in 1947. The 4th Battalion joined the Indian Army as the 5th Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles , where it exists to this day...
- 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles
- 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles
- 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
- 6th Gurkha Rifles,
- 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha RiflesThe 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles was a regiment of the British Indian Army, before being transferred to the British Army following India's independence. Originally raised in 1817 as part of the army of the British East India Company, the regiment has been known by a number of names...
- 7th Gurkha Rifles
- 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha RiflesThe 7th Gurkha Rifles started as a regiment of the British Indian Army, before being transferred to the British Army following India's independence.-Formation:...
- 8th Gurkha Rifles
- 9th Gurkha Rifles
- 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha RiflesThe 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, , was originally an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment was first formed in 1890, taking its lineage from a police unit and over the course of its existence it had a number of changes in designation and composition...
- 11th Gorkha Rifles11th Gorkha RiflesThe 11 Gorkha Rifles is a Gorkha regiment of the Indian Army that was re-raised after independence. The regiment consists of primarily the Rais and Limbus of eastern Nepal...
- 14th Gurkha Rifles
- 25th Gurkha Rifles
- 26th Gurkha Rifles
- 29th Gurkha Rifles
- 38th Gurkha Rifles
- 42nd Gurkha Rifles
- 44th Gurkha Rifles
- 56th Gurkha Rifles
- 710th Gurkha Rifles