3rd Gurkha Rifles

The last of the 4 Gurkha battalions raised in 1815 was known as the Kemaon Battalion. It's men were not all pure Gurkhas but men from Nepaul's feudatory districts such as Kumaon and Garhwal who had lost heart in the Gurkha cause. The battalion was to police the Nepalese border for 40 years before their arduous march to Delhi and their assault on the Kashmir Gate during the Mutiny of 1857.
After the Mutiny they were counted as one of the Bengal line regiments - the 18th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, but in 1864 they became 3rd Goorkha (The Kemaon) Regiment. A year later they went on campaign to Bhutan for a year where they suffered much hardship and disease but gained no battle honou