Units

4 Gorkha Rifles

4 GORKHA RIFLES

Regimental Insignia of 4 Gorkha Rifles

Regimental Uniform of 4 Gorkha Rifles

Regimental Centre: Sabathu, Himachal Pradesh.

Regimental Insignia: A pair of crossed Khukris (a Gorkha dagger) with the Roman numeral IV below.

Motto: Kayar Hunu Bhanda Marnu Ramro.

War Cry: Ayo Gorkhali (The Gorkhas Are Here).

Regimental Battalions: 1st Battalion
.................................2nd Battalion
.................................3rd Battalion
.................................4th Battalion
.................................5th Battalion
.................................6th Battalion

Post-Independence

Theatre Honours: Punjab, 1965 and Jammu & Kashmir, 1971.

Battle Honours: Punch, Gurais and Bilafond La.

Honours & Awards: 4 Maha Vir Chakras, 16 Vir Chakras, 5 Shaurya Chakras, 1 Yudh Seva Medal and 26 Sena Medals.

Comments: Forty years after the first three battalions of Gorkhas were raised, 'extra' battalions were raised and named as such. 33 Extra Gorkha Regiment was raised in 1857 at Pithoragarh. It became the 4th Gorkha Rifles of the Bengal Infantry and after the Coronation Durbar at Delhi, became the Prince of Wales' Own 4th Gorkhas. After Indian independence, the designation changed to the present one. It operated in the Lushai hills in 1871, in China in 1900, and in Europe and Mesopotamia during the Great World War (World War I). There were four battalions of the Regiment during World War I. One of the battalions formed part of the Chindits under Wingate. The third battalion fought a fine action at Bilafond La, at heights of nearly 20,000 feet in 1987. Major Jackson in his book on the British Indian Army has called Fourth Gorkhas as the most traveled in the Indian Army.