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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 09.07.2006
 
10th
Princess Mary's Own
Gurkha Rifles
crest and tie
by A. Melville-Brown
India / United Kingdom    
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1890.05.01 1st Regiment of Burma Infantry
formed by amalgamation of 10th Madras Infantry, and The Kubo Valley Military Police Battalion [formed 05.1887]; regiment not permitted to claim lineage, seniority and battle honours of 10th Madras Infantry until centenary in 1990
1890 10th (Burma) Regiment of Madras Infantry
1891 10th Regiment (1st Burma Battalion) of Madras Infantry
1892 10th Regiment (1st Burma Rifles) of Madras Infantry
1895 10th Regiment (1st Burma Gurkha Rifles) of Madras Infantry
1901 10th Gurkha Rifles
1948.01.01 10th Gurkha Rifles, The Gurkha Regiment
allocated to United Kingdom at independence of India (less some personnel to form 11th Gurkha Rifles in Indian Army)
1948.09.23 10th Gurkha Rifles
1949.10 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles
(named for Princess Mary)
1990 regiment permitted to inherit lineage, battle honours and traditions of 10th Madras Infantry
1994.07.01 united with 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), 6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles, and 7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles, to form 3rd Bn, The Royal Gurkha Rifles
pip [no external sites have been found]
Depot & HQ:
Home Station: Quetta [1923-1947?], Alhilal [1947?-1948]
Brigade of Gurkhas [1948-present]
Regulars:
  1st Battalion [1890-1994]
2nd Battalion [1903-1907]
2nd Battalion [1908-1968]
  3rd Battalion [1940-1947] construction sign
4th Battalion [1941-1946] construction sign
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

 
flag construction sign
   
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)

Uniform:

construction sign
1953-1994: rifle green; facings: black; piping: black; lanyard: black
headdress: construction sign 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]
1957.07.18 Brig. Michael Rookherst Roberts, DSO
1959.10.24 Maj-Gen. Richard Neville Anderson, CB, CBE, DSO [also K O R Regt]
1966.08.01 Gen. Sir Peter Mervyn Hunt, GCB, DSO, OBE, ADCGen [also Q O Hldrs]
1975.02.01 Maj-Gen. Edward John Sidney Burnett, CB, DSO, OBE, MC
1977.03.01 Maj-Gen. Ronald William Lorne McAlister, CB
1985.02.23 Lt-Gen. Sir Garry Dene Johnson, KCB, OBE, MC [to 1994]
 
vc Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
vc VCs in the Gurkha Museum, Winchester, by Iain Stewart.
 
Motto: construction sign
Nicknames: construction sign
Anniversaries: construction sign
Marches: quick: Hundred Pipers
Musicians: construction sign
Mascot: construction sign
Miscellaneous Tradition Links:
Affiliated British Regiment:
UK flag The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment) 1950-1994
swords Gurkha Regimental Associations (British Army listing)
monumentThe Gurkha Museum, Winchester, England (Museum site)
Gurkha Museum, Winchester (Army Museums Ogilby Trust)
Gurkha Museum, Winchester (Simonides listing)
   
   
Regimental Journal:
book construction sign
Full Histories:
book Mullaly, Brian Reginald.  History of the 10th Gurkha Rifles, The First Battalion, 1890-1921.  Aldershot : Gale & Polden, 1924.
book Notes from the historical record of the 2nd Bn, 10th Gurkha Rifles.  Quetta : Curzon Press, 1927.
book Mullaly, Brian Reginald.  Bugle and kukri : the story of the 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles.  Edinburgh : Blackwood, 1957.
book 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)
book 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
book 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)
book 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
 
Short Histories:
book Harding, David F. 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles : a short history.  [s.l.] : The Regimental Trust, 1975.
book Harding, David F. 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles : a short history.  [s.l.] : The Regimental Trust, 1990.
book 10th Gurkha Rifles : one hundred years.  Hong Kong : Regimental Trust, 1990.
  
Second World War:
book 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.