Nirmal Purja (category Gurkhas)
career in mountaineering, he served in the British Army with the Brigade of Gurkhas followed by the Special Boat Service (SBS), the special forces unit...
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the 29th Brigade, serving away from its parent 10th Indian Division. Consisting of three battalions of Gurkhas and one of Sikhs, the brigade was dispatched...
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4th Gorkha Rifles (redirect from 4th Gurkha Rifles)
Parker (28 February 2013). The Gurkhas. Headline. ISBN 978-1-4722-0260-4. Retrieved 13 June 2013. Gallipoli Diaries: Gurkhas at Gallipoli 1915. Great War...
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company-sized unit of the Brigade of Gurkhas, the Gurkha Independent Parachute Company, was formed to serve as part of 17th Gurkha Division, the formation...
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2/6th Sussex, 1/1st Kent, 2nd/1st Gurkhas, 1st/4th Gurkhas and 3rd/5th Gurkhas were all assigned to the brigade when it was transferred to 16th Indian...
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Stafford. Royal Corps of Signals 1st Signal Brigade 16th Signal Regiment 230 (Malaya) Signal Squadron 247 (Gurkha) Signal Squadron Support Squadron 22nd Signal...
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naval brigade which operated ashore during the Indian Mutiny with the Gurkhas and Sikhs providing artillery support. The Pearl and the frigate HMS Shannon...
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British Forces Overseas Hong Kong (section Gurkhas)
International Sek Kong Barracks Headquarters 48 Gurkha Infantry Brigade Training Depot Brigade of Gurkhas (TDBG) Borneo Lines Malaya Lines British Forces...
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17th Infantry Division (India) (redirect from 63rd Motorised Brigade)
5th Gurkha Rifles 1st Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles 63rd Indian Infantry Brigade – (Brigadier Arthur Edward Cumming ) 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles...
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prisoner by the gurkhas who supposedly appreciated his bravery. A campaign at Jaithak fort where Young was involved was successful and the gurkhas were defeated...
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Battalion, 5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 1st Battalion, 6th Gurkha Rifles 2nd Battalion, 10th Gurkha Rifles GHQ Troops 20th Brigade, RGA (10th, 15th...
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2002. He was an Aide-de-Camp General to the Queen. He was also Colonel Commandant of the Royal Corps of Signals, the Brigade of Gurkhas and of the Army Legal...
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Glider Pilot and Parachute Corps, while the Brigade of Gurkhas, the overall administrative formation for Gurkhas in the British Army, consisted of four two-battalion...
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contained commandos (King's Regiment (Liverpool), 142 Commando Company) and Gurkhas. Their jungle expertise, which would play an important part in many British...
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10:00 pm and the Gurkhas advanced into Brunei. They fought a series of actions, suffering six casualties, two fatal. A small group of Gurkhas led by Captain...
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one battalion in each brigade was British and two were Indian or Gurkha. Four brigades were raised consisting entirely of Gurkha battalions. Later in the...
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August 1945 2nd Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles April to May 1945 List of Indian Army Brigades in World War II "80 Indian Brigade". Order of Battle. Archived...
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Swinton. According to Dhanbahadur Rai, a Gurkha: The Scots Guards were to attack Tumbledown, with the Gurkhas following behind. We were supposed to finish...
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3rd (Lahore) Division (redirect from 7th Indian Brigade)
April 1887) Aide-de-Camp: Capt H.F.M. Wilson, Rifle Brigade Divisional HQ: Mian Mir (Lahore Cantonment) Mian Mir: K Battery, 3rd Brigade, Royal Artillery...
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11th Gorkha Rifles (category Gurkhas)
held among the soldiers of the four regiments (2nd, 6th, 7th and 10th Gurkhas) that would transfer to the British as to whether they wished to join the...
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7th (Meerut) Division (redirect from 21st (Bareilly) Brigade)
Gurkha Rifles Bareilly Brigade GOC: Maj-Gen F. Macbean, CVO, CB 2nd Bn. Black Watch 41st Dogras 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force) 2/8th Gurkha Rifles...
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Infantry Brigade (Brigadier O. de T. Lovett) 1st Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment 4th Battalion, 16th Punjab Regiment 1st Battalion, 2nd Gurkha Rifles 11th...
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Gurkhas, 33,210 Volunteer Reserves and 8,330 "Other Personnel". As a percentage breakdown of UK Service Personnel, 77.1% are UK Regulars and Gurkhas,...
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of the British Army and its overseas possessions as well as by the Boys Brigade. In some countries, especially those of the Commonwealth of Nations, a...
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is a list of units of the British Army's Royal Engineers. 8th Engineer Brigade 12 (Force Support) Engineer Group 28 Engineer Regiment (United Kingdom)...
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'B' Company, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles in the area of Bluff Cove, seriously wounding four Gurkhas, including Lance Corporal Gyanendra Rai...
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in Hong Kong as a training exercise by the Queen's Gurkha Signals, part of the Brigade of Gurkhas of the British Army, which was at the time based in...
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6th Gurkha Rifles. After two months in the front line he was severely wounded and was transferred back to India, where he commanded the Bannu Brigade on...
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at Kabak Kuyu and the Gurkhas the wells at Susak Kuyu. To the right of the NZMR, troops of the Australian 4th Infantry Brigade (4 Aust) supported by the...
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regiment was sent to reinforce the 2nd Gurkhas in the Neuve Chapelle sector on arrival they discovered that the Gurkhas defences had been breached and overrun...
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