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3rd
Queen Alexandra's Own
Gurkha Rifles
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India
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1815.04.24 |
The Kemaoon
Battalion |
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1816 |
The Kemaoon
Provincial Battalion |
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1823 |
9th (or Kemaoon)
Local Battalion |
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1826 |
7th (or Kemaoon)
Local Battalion |
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1850 |
The Kemaoon
Battalion |
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1861 |
18th Bengal
Native Infantry |
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1861 |
3rd Goorkha
(The Kemaoon) Regiment |
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1864 |
3rd (The Kumaon)
Goorkha Regiment |
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1887 |
3rd Goorkha
Regiment |
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1890 |
2nd
Bn transferred to form 39th
(The Garhwali) Regiment; new 2nd Bn formed |
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1891 |
3rd Gurkha
(Rifle) Regiment |
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1901 |
3rd Gurkha
Rifles |
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1907.02.22 |
3rd The Queen's
Own Gurkha Rifles
(named for Queen
Alexandra) |
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1908 |
3rd Queen Alexandra's
Own Gurkha Rifles |
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1947.08 |
allocated
to India at independence and partition |
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1949 |
3rd Queen Alexandra's
Own Gorkha Rifles |
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1950 |
3rd Gorkha
Rifles |
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3rd
Gurkha Rifles, by Stephen Luscombe (British Empire) |
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3rd
Gorkha Rifles (Bharat Rakshak) |
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Depot &
HQ: |
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Home Station: Almora
[1st Bn, 1923-1948?], Lansdowne [2nd Bn, 1923-1948?] |
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39th Gorkha Rifles Regimental
Centre (shared with 9th Gorkha Rifles),
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh [1948?-present] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1815-present] |
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2nd Battalion [1887-1890] |
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2nd
Battalion [1890-present] |
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3rd
Battalion [1917-1920, 1940-present] |
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4th Battalion [1916-1922,
1941-1947, 1964-present] |
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5th Battalion [1963-present] |
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Delhi
1857, Ahmad Khel,
Afghanistan 1878-80,
Burma 1885-87, Chitral,
Tirah, Punjab Frontier
The Great War: La
Bassée 1914, Armentières 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914,
Neuve Chapelle, Aubers,
France and Flanders 1914-15,
Egypt 1915-16,
Gaza, El Mughar,
Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Tell 'Asur, Megiddo, Sharon,
Palestine 1917-18, Sharqat,
Mesopotamia 1917-18
Afghanistan 1919
Second World War: Deir
el Shein, North
Africa 1940-43, Monte
della Gorgace, Il Castello, Monte Farneto, Monte Cavallo, Italy
1943-45, Sittang
1942, Kyaukse 1942, Imphal, Tuitum, Sakawng, Shenam Pass, Bishenpur,
Tengnoupal, Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Rangoon Road, Pyawbwy,
Pegu 1945, Burma
1942-45
Uri,
Jammu and Kashmir 1947-48, Shingo
River Valley,
Jammu and Kashmir 1971
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Uniform: |
rifle green;
facings: black
tartan: Colquhoun
(pipers's plaids, pipe bags, ca. 1920) |
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- Uniforms,
by Stephen Luscombe (British Empire)
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1946.06.25 |
Maj-Gen. Sir Charles Hamilton Boucher, KBE,
CB, DSO |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental
Journal: |
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Full Histories:
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H.D. Hutchinson. A
short history of the 3rd (Queen's Own) Gurkha Rifles.
London : Hugh Rees, Ltd., 1907. |
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W.M. Savage. Standing
orders, 1st Battalion, 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkah Rifles, Section
XII, Historical. Calcutta : C.O. Press, 1911. |
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Nigel G. Woodyatt. The
regimental history of the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles
from April 1815 to December 1927. London : Philip Allan
& Co., 1929. |
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C.N. Barclay. Regimental
history of the 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles. Volume
II: 1927 to 1947. London : Clowes, 1953. |
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C.L. Proudfoot. Flash
of the khukri : history of the 3rd Gorkha Rifles, 1947-80.
New Delhi : Vision Books Pvy Ltd, 1984. |
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