6th Gurkha Rifles

The 6th are best known for their bravery at Gallipoli and if we look at their battle honours there is only one, Burma 1885-87, that was earned before World War One. This does little justice to the regiment because they served for 80 years on the north-eastern border of India, carrying out arduous and dangerous work tracking down and fighting primative head-hunters. These tribesmen used poison arrows and were extremely adept at stealth and ambush. The terrain made progress very hard and disease was commonplace.
They were the first of the Gurkha regiments to start life as a unit recruited from plainsmen. The Cuttack Legion, as they were first called, were raised in Orissa but moved to Northern Bengal in 1823 as the Rangpur Light Infantry. It was not until later that two out of the 12 companies were made up of Nepalese. The numbers increased until 1886 when they became a class regiment of Gurkhas only.

The second battalion was raised in 1904, taking over the funds and property of the disbanded 65th Carnatic Light Infantry but not their honours ( Carnatic, Sholinghur, Mysore and Pegu).

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