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1815.04.24 |
The Sirmoor
Battalion |
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1823.05.06 |
8th (or Sirmoor)
Local Battalion |
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1823.12 |
8th (or Sirmoor)
(Gorka) Local Battalion |
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1824.03 |
8th (or Sirmoor)
Local Battalion |
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1826.12.01 |
6th (or Sirmoor)
Local Battalion |
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1845 |
6th (Sirmoor)
Rifle Battalion |
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1850.03.01 |
The Sirmoor
Rifle Battalion |
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1852 |
The Sirmoor
Battalion |
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1858 |
The Sirmoor
Rifle Regiment |
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1861.05.03 |
17th Bengal
Native Infantry |
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1861 |
The Sirmoor
Rifle Regiment |
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1861.10.29 |
2nd Goorkha
Regiment |
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1864 |
2nd Goorkha
(The Sirmoor Rifle) Regiment |
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1876.03 |
2nd (Prince
of Wales' Own) Goorkha Regiment (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
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1876 |
2nd (Prince
of Wales's Own) Goorkha Regiment (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
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1891.03 |
2nd (Prince
of Wales's Own) Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment (The Sirmoor Rifles)
(the regiment unofficially perpetuated the
old spelling of Goorkha until 1994) |
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1901 |
2nd (Prince
of Wales's Own) Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
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1903 |
2nd Prince
of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
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1906.01.01 |
2nd King
Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
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1936.06.27 |
2nd King
Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) |
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1948.01.01 |
2nd
King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor
Rifles), The Gurkha Regiment
allocated to United Kingdom at independence of India,
less 4th Bn transferred to 8th Gurkha
Rifles in Indian Army |
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1948.09.23 |
2nd
King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor
Rifles) |
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1994.07.01 |
amalgamated
with ,
6th Queen Elizabeth’s Own Gurkha Rifles,
7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Own Gurkha Rifles,
and 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles,
to form
The Royal Gurkha Rifles |
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Bhurtpore,
Aliwal, Sobraon,
Delhi 1857, Kabul
1879, Kandahar 1880, Afghanistan 1878-80, Tirah,
Punjab Frontier
The Great War: La
Bassée 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle,
Aubers, Loos,
France and Flanders 1914-15, Egypt
1915, Tigris
1916, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad,
Mesopotamia 1916-18, Persia
1918, Baluchistan
1918
Afghanistan
1919
The Second World War:
El Alamein,
Mareth, Akarit, Djebel el Meida, Enfidaville, Tunis,
North Africa 1942-43, Cassino
I, Monastery Hill,
Pian di Maggio, Gothic Line, Coriano, Poggio San Giovanni,
Monte Reggiano, Italy 1944-45, Greece
1944-45, North Malaya,
Jitra, Central Malaya, Kampar, Slim River, Johore,
Singapore Island, Malaya 1941-42, North
Arakan, Irrawaddy,
Magwe, Sittang 1945, Point 1433, Arakan Beaches, Myebon, Tamandu,
Chindits 1943, Burma 1943-45
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Uniform: |
1953-1994: rifle green; facings: scarlet; piping:
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1946.03.20 |
Lt-Gen. Sir Francis Ivan Simms Tuker, KCIE,
CB, DSO, OBE, FRGS, FRSA |
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1956.03.20 |
Maj-Gen. Lewis Henry Owain Pugh, CB, CBE,
DSO |
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1969.03.20 |
Brig. Simon Patrick Martin Kent, CBE |
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1976.09.14 |
F.M.
The Rt Hon Edwin Noel Westby (Bramall), The Baron Bramall, KG, GCB,
OBE, MC, KStJ [also Col. Cmdt. RGJ] |
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1986.09.14 |
F.M.
Sir John Lyon Chapple, KCB, CBE [to 1994] |
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Anniversaries: |
Delhi
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Marches: |
quick:
Lutzow's wild hunt and Wha's a'the steer, Kimmer
slow: God bless the Prince of Wales |
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Miscellaneous
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Regimental
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Full Histories:
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James, H. ; Sheil-Small, D. A pride
of Gurkhas : the 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkhas (The Sirmorr Rifles),
1948-1971. London : Leo Cooper, 1975 |
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Short Histories:
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by A. Melville-Brown 
