Gurkha: The Illustrated History of an Elite Fighting Force |
Contents
THE GURKHA 7 6 BETWEEN THE WARS 91 | 15 |
THE INDIAN MUTINY | 29 |
DUTY ON TWO FRONTIERS 37 | 157 |
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2nd Afghan War 2nd Goorkhas 3rd Gurkha 3rd Gurkha Rifles 4th Indian Division 7th Gurkhas 8th Gurkha Rifles action advance Afghan Afghanistan Allied allocated artillery Assam assault attack battle Bengal Native Infantry Brigade of Gurkhas British and Indian British forces British officers campaign capable capture casualties Chitral column command Corps counterattack decisive defence Delhi Eighth Army expedition fighting fire flank fought Fourteenth Army Gallipoli garrison German guns Gurkha battalions Gurkha regiments Gurung Hazara Goorkha Battalion hill Honourable East India Imphal Indian army Indian Brigade Japanese jungle Kabul Kandahar kukri Kumaon losses Lushai machine-gun major Malaya Malayan Emergency March Mesopotamia military moved Nepal Nepalese North-West Frontier operations Palestine patrol position Punjab Regiment of Bengal region reinforcements ridge rifleman river Royal Gurkha Rifles Sikh Sirmoor Battalion Sirmoor Rifles soldiers soon strength tactical terrain Thapa Tibetan tribesmen troops Turkish Turks Victoria Cross warfare weapons World wounded