About: 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : umbel-rc:Troop_MilitaryUnit, within Data Space : dbpedia.org associated with source document(s)
QRcode icon
http://dbpedia.org/describe/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fdbpedia.org%2Fresource%2F10th_Princess_Mary%27s_Own_Gurkha_Rifles

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 1

AttributesValues
rdf:type
rdfs:label
  • 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles (en)
  • 10e régiment de fusiliers gorkhas de la princesse Mary (fr)
rdfs:comment
  • 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 1 (en)
  • Le 10e régiment de fusiliers Gurkha de la Princess Mary, ou 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles (abrégé en 10GR), était à l'origine un régiment de fusiliers de l'armée indienne britannique recrutant des Gurkhas des Indes et de Népal. Le régiment fut formé pour la première fois en 1890, prenant les traditions d'une unité de police et, au cours de son existence, il subit un certain nombre de changements de désignation et de composition. Il participa à un certain nombre de campagnes sur les frontières indiennes au cours du XIXe et au début du XXe siècle, avant de combattre pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, la troisième guerre anglo-afghane et la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Après l'indépendance de l'Inde en 1947, le régiment fut l'un des quatre régiments Gurkha à être transféré à l'armée br (fr)
foaf:name
  • 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles (en)
foaf:depiction
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/IND_003714_Battlefield_on_Scraggy_Hill_at_Shenam.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gurkha_TRF.png
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/The_War_in_the_Far_East-_the_Burma_Campaign_1941-1945_SE4612.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gurkha_Memorial,_Winchester_Cathedral,_Hampshire.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Princess_Mary's_Own.jpg
  • http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rambahadur_Limbu_VC.jpg
dcterms:subject
Wikipage page ID
Wikipage revision ID
Link from a Wikipage to another Wikipage
Faceted Search & Find service v1.17_git139 as of Feb 29 2024


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 08.03.3331 as of Sep 2 2024, on Linux (x86_64-generic-linux-glibc212), Single-Server Edition (61 GB total memory, 39 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2024 OpenLink Software