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Gurkha Troops in Bedworth - On Armistice Day 2006
Gurkha are people from Nepal who were designated by the officials of British India as a Martial Race; races which were thought to be naturally warlike and aggressive in battle, and to possess the necessary qualities like courage, loyalty, physical strength, orderliness, hard working, fighting tenacity and military strategy. The British recruited heavily from these Martial Races for service in the colonial army.
The Gurkha Regiments saw active service in many places including Burma, Afghanistan, India and Tibet up until the start of the First World War.
During the war, the Gurkha regiments were numbered and redesignated as Gurkha Rifles. One hundred thousand Gurkhas fought in the First World War. They served in the battlefields of France in the Loos, Givenchy, Neuve Chapelle and Ypres; in Mesopotamia, Persia, Suez Canal and Palestine against Turkish advance, Gallipoli and Salonika. One detachment served with Lawrence of Arabia.
Armistice Day is the anniversary of the official end of World War I, November 11, 1918. It commemorates the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front, which took effect at eleven o'clock in the morning — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."
Please see Johnsweeney.org for more photos on the Armistice Day parade in Bedworth in 2006.
Photographer - John Sweeney
Date - 11 November 2006
Location - Centre of Bedworth |
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