Gurkhas Collection

Ww1 Gurkhas
Three Gurkha soldiers serving with the Indian Army during World War One

Ww1 Ghurka Soldiers
Two Gurkha soldiers serving with the Indian Army during World War One

Afghan War / Dargai
THE STORMING OF DARGAI The Gordon Highlanders, under Colonel Mathias, storm heights fiercely defended by a large force of Afridis

3rd Gurkhas
3rd Gurkha Regiment

WW1 - Four Gurkha Bagpipe Pipers - British Indian Army forces on the Western Front in France. Date: 1915

British army in India, 1st Gurkhas Goorkhas 1863
Vintage 19th century photograph - British army in India, 1860s - offficers of the 1st Gurkhas Goorkhas 1863

Dasara festival - Gurkhas - NWFP
Gurkhas sacrificing a water buffalo as part of the Dasara festival, held for 10 days in September October. This regiment are British colonial forces stationed in the North West Frontier Province

Portrait of a Ghurka soldier, WW1
Portrait of a Gurkha soldier. Date: 1914

Gurkha troops going over the top, Palestine, WW1
Men of the 3/3rd Gurkha Rifles, 75th Division, going over the top on the Palestine Front during the First World War. Date: December 1917

Gurkha troops marching to Dharmsala, Chitral relief, WW1
Troops of the 2/1st Gurkhas Division marching to Dharmsala for relief at Chitral, North West Frontier, India, during the First World War. Date: 1915

All the Queens Men - Golden Jubilee Military Group
A painting by Malcolm Greensmith to celebrate Queen Elizabeth IIs Golden Jubilee in 2002, depicting members of a number of different regiments in the British Army

The RAF aiding Gurkhas during an attack on a hill near Palel
One of four photographs: The RAF aiding Gurkhas during an attack on a hill near Palel 1944. From a collection of 48 photographs relating to the Burma Campaign, World War Two, Far East (1941-1945)

5th Infantry Brigade (Guards and Gurkhas)
Photograph showing 5th Infantry Brigade (Guards and Gurkhas) disembarking along the small jetty to reinforce the bridgehead at San Carlos, Falkland Islands

Ochterlony Monument, Kolkata, India
The Shaheed Minar formerly known as the Ochterlony Monument, Kolkata, India - erected in 1828 in memory of Major-general Sir David Ochterlony, commander of the British East India Company

Gurkhas cooking a camp meal 1914
Gurkhas cooking a camp meal. A group of Gurkha soldiers prepare a meal in camp. They would soon be travelling to the Western Front in Europe to fight alongside the British Army. Date: 1914

Arrival of Indian troops in Marseilles, France, 1914
The arrival of the Indian Expeditionary Force in France in 1914 : how the Sikhs and Gurkhas travelled 4500 miles from India to Marseilles. The arrival of the Indian troops at the camp at Marseilles

Gurkhas arriving by troop train, Western Front, WW1
Gurkhas arriving on the Western Front by troop train during the First World War. Date: 2 November 1914

British Gurkhas WWI
1/8th Gurkhas, 21st Brigade, 7th Division in captured Turkish trenches in Tikrit during World War I

Gurkha trooper firing in Burma, 1944 Date: 1944

Waiting for transports - Burma - 1944
British, West Africans and Gurkhas, the backbone of Wingates Burma Jungle forces, wait at the ramps to file into transports or gliders for the forward movement to Broadway

A Gurkha Charge
German troops decide to turn and flee rather than face the ferocity of the charging Gurkhas

Gurkhas on the march through a French town

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