I thought I would write a little about the Gurkhas, a fighting force I have been in awe of since I was child. What prompted me was my reading of a book I have had for some time, the book is simply titled ‘Gurkhas’ and is written by Sandro Tucci. Whatever I write as I go along is not intended as...
Captain 1st Kings Georges Own Gurkha Rifles
(The Malaun Regiment) formery
3rd Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
died 9th July 1920 age 27. Son of the
late Frank Herbert Finucane & Margart Newland
of Hilmorton Manor, Rugby
Buried at All Saints, Mackworth with Markeaton, Derbyshire
Irvine John HUGHES, Lieutenant, 9th Gurkha
Rifles who was killed when leading his
Company on the 13th of January 1916 age 22
at the battle of Shaikh Saau, Mesopotamia
Wills & Admin, Ancestry. He lived at Town House, Newport, Shropshire. His effects went to his father, Major General...
This memorial is in the Allied Special Forces Memorial Grove, at the National Memorial Arboretum, Alrewas, Staffordshire
He was promoted from Cadet to 2nd Lieutenant 14457263 15th December 1946.
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