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Name Gurkha Rifles Digitised Content No Material Type Archives and Manuscripts

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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`Battalion in Tirah': unpublished account, dated Nov 1899, of the Tirah campaign 1897-98, by Capt (later) Brig Vincent Alexander Ormsby 1865-1917), Indian Army 1885, 1st Battalion, 3rd Gurkha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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Mss Eur F206

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F206
Title:
Macnabb Collection: papers of successive generations of the Macnabb family who served in India
Scope & Content:
Macnabb Collection: correspondence and papers of Dr James Macnabb (1759-1822), Bengal Medical Service 1789-1818, his son James Munro Macnabb (1790-1860), Bengal Civil Service 1806-31, and successive generations of the Macnabb family who served in India in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1778-1970
Extent:
462 items

10. Mss Eur F517

Reference (shelfmark):
Mss Eur F517
Title:
Three fragmentary memoirs, entitled 'Waziristan 1921-22', 'Mutiny in the Himalaya' and 'A Gurkha in Rajputana', by Brigadier Eric W Langlands (1897-1995), British Army 1914-18, Indian Army 1939-47, ADC to King George VI 1947-48
Scope & Content:
Three fragmentary memoirs, entitled 'Waziristan 1921-22', 'Mutiny in the Himalaya' and 'A Gurkha in Rajputana', by Brigadier Eric W Langlands (1897-1995), British Army 1914-18, Indian Army 1939-47, ADC to King George VI 1947-48
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1921-1935
Extent:
1 folder