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created 15 July 2000. Corrected and updated
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1902.05.16 |
8th Gurkha
Rifles
formed from nucleus of men from 10th
Gurkha Rifles, Burma Military Police, and other Gurkha units |
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1903.10.02 |
2nd Battalion,
10th Gurkha Rifles |
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1907.09.27 |
7th Gurkha
Rifles |
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1910 |
absorbed
78th Moplah Rifles without change of title |
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1948.01.01 |
7th Gurkha
Rifles, The Gurkha Regiment
allocated to United Kingdom at independence of India,
less 3rd Bn transferred to 5th Gurkha
Rifles in Indian Army (as its 6th Bn), and some personnel to form
11th Gurkha Rifles in Indian Army |
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1948.05 |
regt
ordered to convert to artillery (101
Fd Regt and 102
Fd Regt) to support new Gurkha
Division, but plan and training ceased within a month |
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1948.09.23 |
7th Gurkha
Rifles |
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1959.01.01 |
7th Duke of
Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
(named for Prince
Philip, Duke of Edinburgh) |
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1994.07.01 |
amalgamated
with 2nd
King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles, 6th
Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles, and 10th
Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles, to form
The Royal Gurkha Rifles |
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Depot &
HQ: |
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Home Station: Quetta
[1923-1947?], Palampur [1947?-1948] |
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Brigade
of Gurkhas [1948-present] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1907-1994] |
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2nd
Battalion [1907-1970, 1982-1987] |
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3rd Battalion [1917-1921,
1940-1943, 1946-1948]  |
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4th Battalion [1941-1946]
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The Great War: Suez
Canal, Egypt 1915, Megiddo,
Sharon, Palestine 1918, Shaiba,
Kut al Amara 1915 '17, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Baghdad,
Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1915-18
Afghanistan 1919
The Second World War: Tobruk
1942, North Africa
1942, Cassino I,
Campriano, Poggio del Grillo, Tavoleto, Montebello-Scorticata
Ridge, Italy 1944, Sittang
1942 '45, Pegu 1942,
Kyaukse 1942, Shwegyin, Imphal, Bishenpur, Meiktila,
Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Rangoon Road, Pyawbwe,
Burma 1942-45
Falkland Islands
1982
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
1953-1994: rifle green; facings: black; piping:
black
headdress:
tartan: Douglas
(pipers' & drummers' trews & plaids, bagpipe bags & ribbons)
Cameron of Erracht
(cap badge backing) |
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1944.03.31 |
F.M.
Sir William Joseph Slim, GCB, GCMG, GCVO,GBE, DSO, MC |
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1956.05.25 |
F.M.
Sir Gerald Walter Robert Templer, KG, GCB, GCMG, KBE, DSO
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Irish Fus, Federation Regt 1954-59; CIGS;
High Commissioner, Malaya 1952-54; Constable of the Tower 1965-70] |
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1964.09.11 |
Gen. Sir Walter Colyear Walker, KCB, CBE,
DSO |
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1975.09.11 |
Brig. Eric David Smith, CBE, DSO |
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1982.10.01 |
Brig. John Whitehead, MBE |
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1991.08.03 |
Brig. Miles Garth Hunt-Davis, CBE
[to 1994] |
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Motto: |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
quick (band):
Old Monmouthshire
quick (pipes): All the blue bonnets are over the border |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental
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Full Histories:
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Mackay, J.N. History of the7th Duke
of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles. London : Blackwood, 1962 |
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Smith, E.D. (Eric David). The autumn
years : 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, vol. 3. |
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Short Histories:
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by A. Melville-Brown 
