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Sirmoor Rifles Association (2GR)

The Sirmoor Club – 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Goorkhas (The Sirmoor Rifles)

The 2nd King Edward VII’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) was an infantry 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 Gurkha 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 the regiment was amalgamated with the other three British Army Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles.

It is the only Gurkha regiment which did not have a Kukri on its cap badge.

President Brigadier I Rigden OBE
Chairman Colonel W F Shuttlewood CBE
Hon Secretary Maj N D Wylie Carrick MBE – honsec@2ndGoorkhas.com
Hon Treasurer Captain Raju Gurung – rupgurung73@hotmail.com
Editor of Sirmooree Colonel N J H Hinton MBE

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