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Authors
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T.F.
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created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
09.07.2006
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Amboor1,
Carnatic2, Mysore2,
Assaye1, Ava1,
Burma 1885-872
The Great War: Helles,
Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915,
Suez Canal, Egypt 1915, Sharqat,
Mesopotamia 1916-18
Afghanistan
1919
Second World War:
Iraq 1941, Deir ez Zor,
Syria 1941, Coriano,
Santarcangelo, Senio
Floodbank, Bologna, Sillaro Crossing, Gaiana Crossing, Italy
1944-45, Monywa 1942,
Imphal, Tuitum, Tamu Road, Shenam Pass, Litan, Bishenpur,
Tengnoupal, Mandalay, Myinmu Bridgehead, Kyaukse 1945,
Meiktila, Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Irrawaddy,
Rangoon Road, Pegu 1945, Sittang 1945, Burma 1942-45
1. inherited
1990 from 10th Madras Infantry
2. awarded 1990 for services of 10th
Madras Infantry
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Badges: |
A bugle horn stringed interlaced with a kukri fessewise the blade
to the sinister, within the strings of the bugle horn the numeral
10. Changed 1950: A bugle horn stringed interlaced with
a kukri fessewise the blade to the sinister, above the kukri the
cypher of HRH Princess Mary The Princess Royal, and below it the
numeral 10.
Cap badge: worn on right side of felt hat since 1920s.
Badge backing: 3" square Hunting
Stewart patch (adopted ca. 1950).
Shoulder title: 10 G.R.
Arm badge: "The Rock Fort of Amboor
and the Elephant of Assaye"
(awarded 1 May 1990)
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Uniform: |
1953-1994: rifle green; facings: black; piping:
black; lanyard: black
headdress:
No. 1 Dress cap: black Kilmarnock with black toorie;
beret: rifle green; side hat: rifle green piped black,
black badge boss
officers' distinction: black leather shoulder belt with silver
badge, lion's tartan:
Hunting Stewart
(pipers' & drummers' trews, scarf, plaids, pipe bags), double-sided
Hunting Stewart
& Royal Stewart
(pipe ribbons)
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1947.07.18 |
Gen. Sir Alexander Frank Philip Christison,
Bt. GBE, CB, DSO, MC, DL [also Duke
of Wellington's Regt] |
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1957.07.18 |
Brig. Michael Rookherst Roberts, DSO |
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1959.10.24 |
Maj-Gen. Richard Neville
Anderson, CB, CBE, DSO [also K
O R Regt] |
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1966.08.01 |
Gen. Sir Peter Mervyn Hunt, GCB, DSO, OBE,
ADCGen [also Q
O Hldrs] |
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1975.02.01 |
Maj-Gen. Edward John Sidney Burnett, CB,
DSO, OBE, MC |
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1977.03.01 |
Maj-Gen. Ronald William Lorne McAlister,
CB |
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1985.02.23 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Garry Dene Johnson, KCB, OBE,
MC [to 1994] |
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Motto: |
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Marches: |
quick:
Hundred Pipers |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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Full Histories:
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| Mullaly, Brian Reginald. History
of the 10th Gurkha Rifles, The First Battalion, 1890-1921.
Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1924. |
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| Notes from the historical record
of the 2nd Bn, 10th Gurkha Rifles. Quetta : Curzon
Press, 1927. |
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| Mullaly, Brian Reginald. Bugle
and kukri : the story of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles.
Edinburgh : Blackwood, 1957. |
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| Mullaly, Brian Reginald. Bugle
and kukri : the story of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles. [reprint]
London : Published for the Regimental Trust by Naval & Military
Press, 1993. ISBN: 1897632304 (2 v. with MacAlister) |
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| MacAlister, R.W.L. Bugle
and kukri : the story of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles,
volume 2. Newport, IOW : Vectis Ltd for Regimental Trust
10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, 1984. ISBN: 0950969516 |
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| MacAlister, R.W.L. Bugle
and kukri : the story of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles,
volume 2. [reprint] London : Published for the Regimental
Trust by Naval & Military Press, 1993. ISBN: 1897632304 (2 v.with
Mullaly) |
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Pearson, P. T. C. (Peter Thomas
Clayton) Bugle and kukri : the story of the 10th Princess Mary's
Own Gurkha Rifles, volume 3. [s.l.] : Regimental
Trust 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, 2000. ISBN: 0950969540
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Short Histories:
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| Harding, David F. 10th Princess
Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles : a short history. [s.l.]
: The Regimental Trust, 1975. |
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| Harding, David F. 10th Princess
Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles : a short history. [s.l.]
: The Regimental Trust, 1990. |
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| 10th Gurkha Rifles : one hundred
years. Hong Kong : Regimental Trust, 1990. |
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Second World
War: |
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| Bickersteth, Anthony Charles. ODTAA
: being extracts from the diary of an officer who served with the
4/10th Gurkha Rifles in Manipur and Burma. Aberdeen : Privately
printed at the Aberdeen University Press, 1953. |
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