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The 2nd Goorkhas was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army on India’s independence in 1947.  At that time the 4th Battalion joined the Indian Army as the 5th Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles), where it exists to this day.

As part of the British Army, the Regiment served in Malaya, Hong Kong, the UK, Brunei and many other locations worldwide until 1994 when it was amalgamated with the other three British Army Gurkha infantry Regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles.

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On this day, 10th August, in....

1944 In billets in Castiglion, in Italy, British Officers provided 60 brace of pheasant for the Mess during their stay, with the enthusiastic help of local gamekeepers. They salved their consciences about shooting them 2 months before the start of the season by identifying them as Fascist pheasants, and therefore an enemy which needed to be killed.  Click here to read an account of the campaign.

British Officers of the 1st Battalion after the battle of Monte Cassino

 

1973 2nd Lieutenant William Shuttlewood and six men returned from the Solomon Islands, where they had carried out an arduous adventure training expedition, crossing Guadalcanal from one side to the other with considerable difficulty because of the very rugged, jungle-covered terrain.

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