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CSS-029 20 Aug 2015
Military/Army
DS "Union Flag"
Royal Mail
Cartor
Lithography
15 x 14 (Die-Cut and Elliptical)
7,500
£14.95
Royal Mail Stock Code: AV033
Gurkhas have played a vital part in British military operations since
the raising of the first Gurkha regiment in 1815. Originally part of the
British Indian Army, they fought Pathans on the frontiers, dacoits in
Burma and mutineers in India. With six battalions on the Western Front,
four in Gallipoli and others in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Palestine, Persia and
Salonika, Gurkhas were prominent in the First World War, and similarly so
in the Second World War, where they served in North Africa, Italy, Malaya
and Burma. After 1947, Gurkha regiments were divided between the armies of
independent India and Britain, with British Gurkhas in the forefront of
operations in Malaya and Borneo, and subsequently taking part in the
Falklands campaign, and more recently in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor,
Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan. To commemorate 200 years of service to
the British Military Service.
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