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Name Gurkha Rifles Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. EAP880/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1
Title:
Sikkim Palace Archives
Scope & Content:
While it is an archive that represents elite perspectives, the Sikkim Palace Archives, is also the first collection of local origin to be made freely and universally accessible for international scholarship, presenting a perspective of events and characters as experienced from within looking out...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
Dzongkha, English, French, Hindi, Lepcha, Malayalam, Nepali, Tibetan, and Urdu
Date Range:
1807-1998
Extent:
89249 TIFF images

2. EAP880/1/1

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/1
Title:
Domestic Affairs
Scope & Content:
Documents related to domestic affairs. Original file reference: SPA/DA.
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
1875-1975
Extent:
34306 TIFF images

3. EAP880/1/1/5

Reference (shelfmark):
EAP880/1/1/5
Title:
State circulars and notifications
Scope & Content:
Documents issued by the General, Judiciary and Private offices. Original file reference: SPA/DA/AD/005. Extent of original material: 134 pages. This file contains the following 70 items: EAP880/1/1/5/1: Circular regarding exemption from house tax, 24 Jun 1924, [3 images]; EAP880/1/1/5/2: Circu...
Collection Area:
Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:
English, Nepali, and Tibetan
Date Range:
1910-1937
Extent:
135 TIFF images

4. Mss Eur B386

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur B386
Title:
Hamilton Simonds-Gooding papers.
Scope & Content:
`Bamboos and Partisans': memoir, written in 1969, by Maj Hamilton Simonds-Gooding (1912-2003), Indian Army 1933-48, describing regimental life in Hodson's Horse, and his experiences while serving with the Burma Rifle Levies 1943-44; also an operational map of Burma and India.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1948
Extent:
177 folios; 1 map

5. Mss Eur C393

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C393
Title:
Terence John Phillips papers.
Scope & Content:
`Three Years in the Tochi Scouts, 1938-41': memoir by Maj Terence John Phillips (b 1913), Indian Army 1933-48, describing his service in Waziristan as a Lieutenant in the Tochi Scouts; with photographic illustrations; also copy extracts from his diaries of his service with the Tochi Scouts, the G...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1938-1941
Extent:
1 box

6. Mss Eur C828

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C828
Title:
Cherie Walmsley papers.
Scope & Content:
Copies from three letters from Cherie Crowley (nee Walmsley), describing her experiences as a sixteen year old girl during her trek out of Burma as far as Myitkhina, where she was captured by the Japanese, subsequent experiences, and rescue by the Gurkhas.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942-1945
Extent:
1 folder

7. Mss Eur C837

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur C837
Title:
Vincent Alexander Ormsby papers.
Scope & Content:
`Battalion in Tirah': unpublished account, dated Nov 1899, of the Tirah campaign 1897-98, by Capt (later) Brig Vincent Alexander Ormsby 1865-1917), Indian Army 1885, 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha Rifles; also an account of his life, mainly up to 1902, compiled by Ruth Fell from a memoir left by him a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1865-1902
Extent:
1 folder

8. Mss Eur D851

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D851
Title:
Copies of the War Diaries of the 1st Battalion, 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles while on service in the Middle East, Aug-Sep 1942.
Scope & Content:
Copies of the War Diaries of the 1st Battalion, 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles while on service in the Middle East, Aug-Sep 1942.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1942
Extent:
25 folios

9. Mss Eur D1021

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1021
Title:
Edward Hugh Moyle Parsons papers.
Scope & Content:
Copy of a typescript diary, dated 7 May 1983, written by Lt-Col Edward Hugh Moyle Parsons (b 1901), Indian Army 1920-47, describing his trip to India in Oct-Nov 1982, during which he visited several Indian Army stations.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1982-1983
Extent:
4 folios

10. Mss Eur D1037

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur D1037
Title:
Papers of Brig Charles Edward Gray, Indian Army, 3rd Gurhha Rifles, and Mrs Gray
Scope & Content:
Letters from Brig Charles Edward Gray (1896-1966), Indian Army 1916-48, describing life as an officer with the 3rd Gurkha Rifles; also accounts by Mrs Ruby K Gray of her experiences as an Army wife 1922-47, and of her husband's escape from a prisoner of war camp in 1943.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1923-1944
Extent:
11 items

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