10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles | |
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Active | 1890–1994 |
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Type | Rifles |
Role | Light Infantry |
Size | First battalion (Second: 1903–68, Third: 1940–47, Fourth: 1941–46) |
Garrison/HQ | Quetta Alhilal Taiping Seremban British Hong Kong |
Colors | Rifle Green Facings, Black Piping, Black Lanyard |
March | Quick: Hundred Pipers |
Engagements | Burma 1885–87; (The Great War): Helles, Krithia, Suvla, Sari Bair, Gallipoli 1915, Suez Canal, Egypt 1915, Sharqat, Mesopotamia 1916–18, Afghanistan 1919 (Second World War): Iraq 1941, Syria 1941, Bologna, Italy 1944–45, Monywa 1942, Tamu Road, Mandalay, Kyaukse 1945, Burma 1942–45 |
Commanders | |
Notable commanders | Brigadier Godfrey Bartlett Proctor |
Insignia | |
Shoulder Flash | |
Abbreviation | 10 GR |
The 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, (abbreviated to 10 GR), was originally a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment was formed in 1890, taking its lineage from a police unit and over the course of its existence it had a number of changes in designation and composition. It took part in a number of campaigns on the Indian frontiers during the 19th and early 20th centuries, before fighting in the First World War, the Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Second World War. Following India's independence in 1947, the regiment was one of four Gurkha regiments to be transferred to the British Army. In the 1960s it was active in the Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation. It was amalgamated with the other three British Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1994.