About: 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)

An Entity of Type: agent, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army on India's independence in 1947. The 4th Battalion joined the Indian Army as the 5th Battalion, 8th Gorkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles), where it exists to this day. As part of the British Army, the regiment served in Malaya, Hong Kong and Brunei until 1994 when it was amalgamated with the other three British Army Gurkha infantry regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles. It is the only Gurkha regiment which did not have a khukuri on its cap badge.

thumbnail
Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army on India's independence in 1947. The 4th Battalion joined the Indian Army as the 5th Battalion, 8th Gorkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles), where it exists to this day. As part of the British Army, the regiment served in Malaya, Hong Kong and Brunei until 1994 when it was amalgamated with the other three British Army Gurkha infantry regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles. It is the only Gurkha regiment which did not have a khukuri on its cap badge. (en)
  • Le 2e Régiment de fusiliers Gurkha du roi Édouard VII (The Sirmoor Rifles) ou 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) était un régiment de fusiliers de l'armée indienne britannique avant d'être transféré à l'armée britannique lors de l'indépendance de l'Inde en 1947. Le 4e bataillon a rejoint l'armée indienne en tant que 5e bataillon, 8th Gorkha Rifles où il est encore actif à ce jour (2020). En tant qu'unité de l'armée britannique, le régiment a servi en Malaisie, à Hong Kong et au Brunei jusqu'en 1994, date à laquelle il a fusionné avec les trois autres régiments Gurkha pour former les Royal Gurkha Rifles. C'était le seul régiment Gurkha qui n'avait pas de khukuri sur son insigne de bérêt. Le régiment recrutait des soldats du Népal. (fr)
dbo:activeYearsEndYear
  • 1994-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:activeYearsStartYear
  • 1815-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbo:colourName
  • Green; faced and piped red, 1888 scarlet (en)
dbo:country
dbo:garrison
dbo:identificationSymbol
  • 75px
  • 2 GR
dbo:march
dbo:notableCommander
dbo:role
  • Light Infantry
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 902470 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 15731 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1091985754 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:caption
  • Cap badge (en)
dbp:ceremonialChief
dbp:ceremonialChiefLabel
  • Colonel in Chief (en)
dbp:colors
  • Green; faced and piped red, 1888 scarlet (en)
dbp:dates
  • 1815 (xsd:integer)
dbp:garrison
dbp:identificationSymbol
  • 75 (xsd:integer)
  • 2.0
dbp:identificationSymbol2Label
  • Abbreviation (en)
dbp:identificationSymbolLabel
  • Shoulder Flash (en)
dbp:march
  • Lützow's Wild Chase-Quick March (en)
dbp:nickname
  • The Sirmoor Rifles, Second GR (en)
dbp:notableCommanders
dbp:role
dbp:type
  • Infantry (en)
dbp:unitName
  • 2 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army on India's independence in 1947. The 4th Battalion joined the Indian Army as the 5th Battalion, 8th Gorkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles), where it exists to this day. As part of the British Army, the regiment served in Malaya, Hong Kong and Brunei until 1994 when it was amalgamated with the other three British Army Gurkha infantry regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles. It is the only Gurkha regiment which did not have a khukuri on its cap badge. (en)
  • Le 2e Régiment de fusiliers Gurkha du roi Édouard VII (The Sirmoor Rifles) ou 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) était un régiment de fusiliers de l'armée indienne britannique avant d'être transféré à l'armée britannique lors de l'indépendance de l'Inde en 1947. Le 4e bataillon a rejoint l'armée indienne en tant que 5e bataillon, 8th Gorkha Rifles où il est encore actif à ce jour (2020). En tant qu'unité de l'armée britannique, le régiment a servi en Malaisie, à Hong Kong et au Brunei jusqu'en 1994, date à laquelle il a fusionné avec les trois autres régiments Gurkha pour former les Royal Gurkha Rifles. C'était le seul régiment Gurkha qui n'avait pas de khukuri sur son insigne de bérêt. Le régiment recrutait des soldats du Népal. (fr)
rdfs:label
  • 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) (en)
  • 2e régiment de fusiliers gorkhas du roi Édouard VII (fr)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (en)
foaf:nick
  • The Sirmoor Rifles, Second (2nd) GR (en)
is dbo:militaryUnit of
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License