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Gurkha Para
A soldier from the Gurkha Company,2 Para, on guard at his base in Kabul, Afghanistan.- Matzos
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We Will Remember
The Officer Commanding C(Gurhka)Company 2 Para, takes a moment to reflect on wars gone by while visiting the British section of the Foreigners Cemetery in Kabul, Afghanistan. His Gurhka Company will be amongst a small group of British soldiers who will be repairing and tidying the cemetery in...- Matzos
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9th Gurkha Rifles
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8th Gurkha Rifles
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7th Gurkha Rifles
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6th Gurkha Rifles
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5th Gurkha Rifles
They were raised as the 25th Punjab Infantry or Hazara Gurkha Battalion in 1858. Their base was Abbottabad and remained so until 1947. This town was founded in 1853 by Major James Abbott, the first British deputy commissioner of Hazara District. It is a hill station situated northeast of...- Drone_pilot
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4th Gurkha Rifles
The first three regiments of Gurkhas date from 1815 but the 4th was raised in July 1857 at Pithoragarh. They were to hold the Kumaon Hills during the Mutiny. They were first numbered the 19th when taken into the Bengal line and under the authority of the British Crown, but a few months later...- Drone_pilot
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2nd Gurkha Rifles
The 2nd Gurkha Regiment or Goorkhas, as the 2nd liked to spell it, sprang from one of the battalions raised from prisoners after the Nepal War in 1815/16. Lieutenant F Young raised the Sirmoor battalion, so called because they were originally based at Nahan in Sirmoor but it was an unhealthy...- Drone_pilot
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1st Gurkha Rifles
The Gurkhas have been Britain's best friends for so long that it seems inconceivable that they were once our enemy. The Gurkha war of 1815/6 ended when General Ochterlony defeated their army led by Amarsing Thapa at the fort of Malaun. The two Nasiri battalions (the word means 'friendly') were...- Drone_pilot
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