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The Memorial to the Brigade of Gurkhas on Horse Guards Avenue, Whitehall, London, was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II on 3 December 1997. This was the first memorial to Gurkha soldiers in the United Kingdom, and was occasioned by transfer of their headquarters and training centre from Hong Kong to London in 1997. The sculptor was Philip Jackson, working from a statue of 1924 by Richard Reginald Goulden in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and the plinth was designed by Cecil Denny Highton.〔 Two casts of Goulden's sculpture had previously been erected in locations in Nepal as World War I memorials to the Gurkhas, the first at Kunraghat in 1928 and the second at Birpur in 1930. The memorial in London is more than one and a half times the size of this model, so Jackson worked the figure up in his own style and from a living model, Captain Khemkumar Limbu.〔 〕 One of several inscriptions on the plinth is a quotation from Sir Ralph Lilley Turner, a former officer in the 3rd Gurkha Rifles. ==Inscriptions== 1st King George V's Own Gurkha Riflles (The Malaun Regiment) 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) 3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles 8th Gurkha Rifles 9th Gurkha Rifles 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles 11th Gurkha Rifles The Royal Gurkha Rifles The Queen's Gurkha Engineers Queen's Gurkha Signals Gurkha Military Police The Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment Other units in which Gurkha soldiers served after 1815 and also the units of the Royal Nepalese Army which, as Britain's allies, took part in the Indian Mutiny and the First and Second World Wars. India 1816–1826 North East Frontier and Burma 1824–1939 First Sikh War 1845–1846 North West Frontier 1852–1947 Indian Mutiny 1857–1859 Bhutan 1864–1866 Malaya 1875–1876 Second Afghan War 1878–1880 Sikkim 1888 China 1900 Tibet 1904 Third Afghan War 1919 Kurdustan 1919 Iraq 1919–1920 North West Persia 1920 Malabar 1921–1922 Palestine 1945–1946 Java and Sumatra 1945–1946 Indo-China 1945–1946 Malaya 1948–1960 Brunei 1962 Borneo 1963–1966 Malay Peninsula 1964–1965 Falkland Islands 1982 The Gulf 1990–1991 Bosnia 1996 FIRST WORLD WAR 1914–1918 France and Belgium Gallipoli Egypt and Palestine Mesopotamia SECOND WORLD WAR 1939–1945 North Africa Italy Greece Persia, Iraq and Syria Malaya and Singapore Burma 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gurkha Memorial, London」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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