10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles (Larger Pattern) Cap Badge, White Metal Restrike

10th Princess Mary’s Own GURKHA RIFLES OR’S nickel/white metal Cap Badge (Larger Pattern) with ‘hook’ fixing.

Strung Bugle, with single Khukri entwined between the strings, ‘Coronet over M’ cypher for Princess Mary, Princess Royal, above Khukri, ’10’ below, on scroll ‘Princess Mary’s Own.

The 10th Princess Mary’s Own Gurkha Rifles, (abbreviated to 10 GR), was originally a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army comprising Gurkha soldiers of Nepalese origin. The regiment was first formed in 1890, taking its lineage from a police unit and over the course of its existence it had a number of changes in designation and composition. It took part in a number of campaigns on the Indian frontiers during the 19th and early 20th centuries, before fighting in the First World War, the Third Anglo-Afghan War and the Second World War. Following India’s independence in 1947, the regiment was one of four Gurkha regiments to be tansfered to the British Army. In the 1960’s it was active in the Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation. It was amalgamated with the other three British Gurkha regiments to form the Royal Gurkha Rifles in 1994.