This blog is provided by karunakaran Narayanan Kuttan Pillai who is collector of Gurkha militaria.
British Indian Army badges for sale
Unknown badges comments needed
Gurkha unknown badges
Nepal – The Land and the People
Nepal lies along the mountains of the central portion of the Himalayas. This rectangular piece of South Asia has acted as an important bridge linking two ancient civilizations of the Asian continent – China in the North and India in the South. The land slopes downwards [...]
Badges of Gurkha Parachute & Staff Corps & Boys Company etc
Formation
This unit was formed from volunteers from all eight regiments and corps units of the Brigade of Gurkhas on 1 January 1963, with the original role of airfield seizure for 17th (Gurkha) Infantry Division, with an all ranks strength of 128 men. Parachute training [...]
Badges of Gurkha Corps of Signals
Trying times for Nepalese Troops 1814 AD – 1816 AD
Out West, the Nepalese were hopelessly overextended. Kumaun, a key link in Nepalese Army communications with the Far West, was defended by a small force, numbering perhaps seven hundred and fifty men, with an equal number of Kumaoni irregulars, altogether about [...]
Badges of Gurkha Corps of Military Police
Badges of Gurkha Corps of Engineers
Badges of Gurkha Army Service Corps etc
10 The Queens Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment
The Queen’s Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, formerly The Queen’s Own Gurkha Transport Regiment, The Gurkha Transport Regiment and The Gurkha Army Service Corps, was formed as a component part of The Brigade of Gurkhas on 1 July 1958.
Her Majesty the Queen approved the [...]
Different gurkha badges of ww2
NEPALES ARMY GURKHA BATTALIONS
During world war two, there was an internal treaty between Nepal and Britain about the mobilization of Nepalese soldiers. The Nepali units which took part were Sri Nath, Kalibox, Surya Dal, Naya Gorakh, Barda Bahadur, Kali Bahadur, Mahindra Dal (second rifle), Bhairung, Jabbar Jung, Shumsher Dal, Sher, Devi [...]