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Description:The Gurkha Rifles' Gallipoli war diaries. This is a faithful and accurate transcription of the original war diaries held at the National Archives UK. They cover all four Gurkha battalions that served in the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade during the Campaign in 1915: 1/4th Gurkha Rifles 1/5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)) 1/6th Gurkha Rifles 2/10th Gurkha Rifles The Headquarters 29th Indian Infantry Brigade diary has also bee transcribed and is available on Kindle. The Battalion diaries are also available as separate e-books. All the diaries in the series are fully searchable in a matter of seconds. Great War history at your fingertips. The extraordinary story of the Indian Army at Gallipoli is meticulously recorded in their war diaries. It is without doubt an exceptional record of valour and devotion to duty. There are insufficient superlatives to describe the achievements of the Gurkhas who fought side by side with the British, Australians and New Zealanders in some of the harshest conditions experienced during the Great War. More than 1,500 men of the Indian Army would pay the ultimate sacrifice at Gallipoli. Many thousands more were evacuated wounded or sick. Kipling’s epitaph to the Hindu Sepoy in France is just as appropriate for those who fell in the Dardanelles: "This man in his own country prayed we know not to what Powers. We pray Them to reward him for his bravery in ours." The Officers and men of the 29th Indian Brigade largely served with the 14th King George’s Own Ferozepore Sikhs or one of four regiments of the Gurkha Rifles. The physical conditions at Gallipoli were extreme. The masses of decaying corpses at the height of the Mediterranean summer became breeding grounds for plagues of flies. Few truces were arranged to bury bodies and the flies spread disease rapidly. Dysentery afflicted most men at some stage. Non-battle casualties were horrendous. During the height of the summer the Battalion fought some bitter battles in squalid conditions. The 1/6th Gurkha Rifles lost all of its Officers as battle casualties in a single operation leaving a lone Medical Officer to command the remnants of the Battalion. The Gurkhas famously got to furthest and highest point of any of the British forces at Gallipoli, before being shelled of the peak, allegedly by the Royal Navy. In less than eight months, the 2/10th Gurkha Rifles - suffered over 1,000 casualties of whom 415 were killed. Even by the grim standards of Gallipoli this is an astonishing number. One of the finest tributes to the Gurkhas was written by Capt Ralph Lilley Turner MC, Professor of Sanskrit at the University of London and late Fellow of Christ’s College Cambridge and sometime Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles. In his preface to the Nepali Dictionary he ends; “As I write these last words, my thoughts return to you who were my comrades, the stubborn and indomitable peasants of Nepal. Once more I hear the laughter with which you greeted every hardship. Once more I see you in your bivouacs or about your fires, on forced march or in the trenches now shivering with wet and cold, now scorched by a pitiless and burning sun. Uncomplaining you endure hunger and thirst and wounds; and at the last your unwavering lines disappear into the smoke and wrath of battle. Bravest of the brave, most generous of the generous, never had a country more faithful friends than you” Small parts of the diaries are missing in the originals. We recommend reading this in parallel with the Headquarters 29th Indian Infantry Brigade diary which will provide more detail and context.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gallipoli Diaries: Gurkhas at Gallipoli 1915. To get started finding Gallipoli Diaries: Gurkhas at Gallipoli 1915, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Gurkha Rifles' Gallipoli war diaries. This is a faithful and accurate transcription of the original war diaries held at the National Archives UK. They cover all four Gurkha battalions that served in the 29th Indian Infantry Brigade during the Campaign in 1915: 1/4th Gurkha Rifles 1/5th Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)) 1/6th Gurkha Rifles 2/10th Gurkha Rifles The Headquarters 29th Indian Infantry Brigade diary has also bee transcribed and is available on Kindle. The Battalion diaries are also available as separate e-books. All the diaries in the series are fully searchable in a matter of seconds. Great War history at your fingertips. The extraordinary story of the Indian Army at Gallipoli is meticulously recorded in their war diaries. It is without doubt an exceptional record of valour and devotion to duty. There are insufficient superlatives to describe the achievements of the Gurkhas who fought side by side with the British, Australians and New Zealanders in some of the harshest conditions experienced during the Great War. More than 1,500 men of the Indian Army would pay the ultimate sacrifice at Gallipoli. Many thousands more were evacuated wounded or sick. Kipling’s epitaph to the Hindu Sepoy in France is just as appropriate for those who fell in the Dardanelles: "This man in his own country prayed we know not to what Powers. We pray Them to reward him for his bravery in ours." The Officers and men of the 29th Indian Brigade largely served with the 14th King George’s Own Ferozepore Sikhs or one of four regiments of the Gurkha Rifles. The physical conditions at Gallipoli were extreme. The masses of decaying corpses at the height of the Mediterranean summer became breeding grounds for plagues of flies. Few truces were arranged to bury bodies and the flies spread disease rapidly. Dysentery afflicted most men at some stage. Non-battle casualties were horrendous. During the height of the summer the Battalion fought some bitter battles in squalid conditions. The 1/6th Gurkha Rifles lost all of its Officers as battle casualties in a single operation leaving a lone Medical Officer to command the remnants of the Battalion. The Gurkhas famously got to furthest and highest point of any of the British forces at Gallipoli, before being shelled of the peak, allegedly by the Royal Navy. In less than eight months, the 2/10th Gurkha Rifles - suffered over 1,000 casualties of whom 415 were killed. Even by the grim standards of Gallipoli this is an astonishing number. One of the finest tributes to the Gurkhas was written by Capt Ralph Lilley Turner MC, Professor of Sanskrit at the University of London and late Fellow of Christ’s College Cambridge and sometime Adjutant of the 2nd Battalion 3rd QAO Gurkha Rifles. In his preface to the Nepali Dictionary he ends; “As I write these last words, my thoughts return to you who were my comrades, the stubborn and indomitable peasants of Nepal. Once more I hear the laughter with which you greeted every hardship. Once more I see you in your bivouacs or about your fires, on forced march or in the trenches now shivering with wet and cold, now scorched by a pitiless and burning sun. Uncomplaining you endure hunger and thirst and wounds; and at the last your unwavering lines disappear into the smoke and wrath of battle. Bravest of the brave, most generous of the generous, never had a country more faithful friends than you” Small parts of the diaries are missing in the originals. We recommend reading this in parallel with the Headquarters 29th Indian Infantry Brigade diary which will provide more detail and context.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Gallipoli Diaries: Gurkhas at Gallipoli 1915. To get started finding Gallipoli Diaries: Gurkhas at Gallipoli 1915, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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