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* 44th Gurkha Rifles ( raised 1824 as the 16th ( Sylhet ) Local Battalion, renamed 8th Gorkha Rifles in 1903 )

* 8th Gurkha Rifles

The 4th, 8th and 10th Divisions and 43rd Gurkha Infantry Brigade lead the advancement, notably the former two at the famous Battle of Monte Cassino where Indian Soldiers are honored to this day as they advanced and held their ground as they waited for Australian, Canadian and New Zealand forces to back them up fought heroically and with pride on the Gothic Line in 1944 and 1945. All fought well.

The 4th Battalion joined the Indian Army as the 5th Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles ( Sirmoor Rifles ), where it exists to this day.

While the 2nd Gurkhas became one of the four Gurkha regiments to transfer to the British Army, the regiment's 4th Battalion was transferred to the Indian Army as 5th Battalion, 8th Gurkha Rifles ( Sirmoor Rifles ) where it exists to this day.

At the same time, the 3 / 11 Gurkha Rifles and a squadron of 8th Cavalry attacked Osmanabad and took the town after heavy street combat with the Razakars who determinedly resisted the Indians.

* 1 / 8th Gurkha Rifles

Born at Roorkee in India and educated at Cheltenham College, he was 26 years old, and a lieutenant in the 8th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army during the Armed Mission to Tibet when, on 6 July 1904 his actions at the storming of the Gyantse Fortress, Tibet led to the award of the Victoria Cross.

He was 31 years old, and a captain in the Bengal Staff Corps, Indian Army, and 44th Gurkha Rifles ( later 1 / 8th Gurkha Rifles ), Indian Army during the Naga Hills Expedition when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC.

* 8th Gurkha Rifles

Of the four regiments one battalion ( 4 / 2 GR ) opted en masse to join the Indian Army and became part of the 8th Gurkha Rifles as their 5th Battalion and is presently on their strength as 5 / 8 GR.

The year before, the 8th Gurkha Rifles was formed from a nucleus of men primarily from the 10th Gurkha Rifles, but also from other Gurkha units.

until 1907 ; at that time, the 7th Gurkhas amalgamated with the 8th Gurkha Rifles to become its 2nd Battalion, while 2 / 10 Gurkha Rifles was renamed as the " new " 7th Gurkhas.

*( 1907 – 1947 )- 2nd Battalion 8th Gurkha Rifles

The defenders were later joined by part of the 4th Battalion of the 8th Gurkha Rifles ( from the 89th Indian Infantry Brigade, part of 7th Indian Division ) and also the artillery of 8 Heavy AA Regiment RA and 6 Medium Regiment RA.

Walker then went to Sandhurst and in 1933 after a short attachment to the Sherwood Foresters, joined his grandfather's regiment, the 1 / 8th Gurkha Rifles in Quetta.

In early 1944, Walker was appointed second-in-command, alongside a new commanding officer, of the 4 / 8th Gurkha Rifles, who had suffered severely in the Arakan Campaign.

* 2nd Battalion Queen Victoria's Rifles – 8th Battalion KRRC

Brooke's brother, 2nd Lt. William Alfred Cotterill Brooke, was a member of the 8th Battalion London Regiment ( Post Office Rifles ) and was killed in action near Le Rutoire Farm on 14 June 1915 aged 24.

He was appointed Honorary Colonel of the 8th Battalion, London Regiment, known as the Post Office Rifles in 1912, relinquishing the position in 1923.

Just before 19: 00, infantry in the 7th and 8th Cameronians ( Scottish Rifles ) moved south from behind No. 23 Redoubt ; the 8th Scottish Rifles advancing to within of the crest of Wellington Ridge, before being stopped by heavy rifle fire.

Brigadier General Girdwood ordered infantry in the 7th and 8th Scottish Rifles Battalions to hold their ground on Wellington Ridge until daylight, but to keep close contact with the enemy during the night in the hope of capturing large numbers of tired and disorganised soldiers in the morning.

At daybreak, infantry in the 8th Scottish Rifles, 156th ( Scottish Rifles ) Brigade, 52nd ( Lowland ) Division ) advanced with the 7th Light Horse and the Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiments ( 2nd Light Horse Brigade ), covered by infantry in the 7th Scottish Rifles, 156th ( Scottish Rifles ) Brigade, 52nd ( Lowland ) Division on the left, who had brought 16 machine guns and Lewis guns into a position from which they could sweep the crest and reverse slopes of Wellington Ridge.

A total of 1, 500 became prisoners in the neighbourhood of Wellington Ridge ; 864 soldiers surrendered to infantry in the 8th Scottish Rifles alone, while others were captured by the light horse and mounted rifles regiments.

Chauvel's Force for the attack on Magdhaba, consisted of three brigades of the Anzac Mounted Division ; 1st Light Horse Brigade ( 1st, 2nd and 3rd Light Horse Regiments ), the 3rd Light Horse Brigade ( 8th, 9th and 10th Light Horse Regiments ), the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade ( Auckland, Canterbury and Wellington Mounted Rifles Regiments ), together with three battalions from the Imperial Camel Corps Brigade in place of the 2nd Light Horse Brigade.

* 1 / 8th Battalion, the Cameronians ( Scottish Rifles )

* 1 / 8th ( Princess Beatrice's Isle of Wight Rifles ) Battalion, The Hampshire Regiment

::: 1 / 8th Battalion, Cameronians ( Scottish Rifles )

* 1 / 8th ( Leeds Rifles ) Battalion, The Prince of Wales's Own ( West Yorkshire Regiment ) ( until January 1918 )

* 8th ( Service ) Battalion ( East Belfast ), the Royal Irish Rifles

In the 8th century the Lex Alamannorum sets the weregeld for a duke or archbishop at three times the basic value ( 600 shillings ), while the killing of a low ranking cleric was fined with 300, raised to 400 if the cleric was attacked while he was reading mass.

Jeff Thomann, local Missouri artist, was raised in Holliday Missouri until he reached 8th grade.

Three rifle divisions were raised in Alma-Ata, including the well-known 8th Guards Rifle Division ' Panfilov ' ( originally the 316th rifle division ), along with 2 rifle battalions and 3 aviation regiments that were raised on the bases of the air club of Alma-Ata.

Charlemagne raised the district that was still governed under Frankish rule by a praeses in the 8th century to a county of Raetia, with a reminiscence of its Roman divisions in the name Reciarum comes, " count of the Raetias ", as late as 807 ; it was absorbed into the duchy of Swabia at the beginning of the 10th century.

He first saw action in 1778 during the American War of Independence as a lieutenant in the 82nd Regiment of Foot ( 1778 ), which was raised in Lanarkshire for service in North America by 8th Duke of Hamilton.

Hopes were raised in 1968 under new Captain-Coach Bob Boland when they won the pre-season competition and finished 8th, but this improvement proved to be short lived.

The regiment's 8th Battalion was raised in July 1940 and in 1941 it was also converted to a tank unit becoming 145th Regiment RAC ( 8th DWR ).

The German 10th Army established itself on the raised banks of the river Senio ( rising at least above the surrounding plain ) which ran across the line of the 8th Army advance just beyond Faenza down to the Adriatic north of Ravenna.

While not having begun any studies, New Jersey Transit is investigating the feasibility of extending HBLR from the 8th Street Station across the raised bridge.

The 8th Division was raised from regular army units and new, all-volunteer infantry brigades, from July 1940 onwards.

The 8th Division was raised to fight Nazi Germany, and was trained for the conditions of the Middle East.

The issues raised surrounded the double jeopardy clause of the 5th Amendment, and the cruel and unusual punishment clause of the 8th Amendment, as made applicable to the State of Louisiana via the due process clause of the 14th Amendment.

He had already won the 8th district's Republican primary, and his abrupt withdrawal raised many questions.

They raised duplicate battalions ( 2 / 5th, 2 / 6th, 2 / 7th, 2 / 8th ) that constituted 185 Bde in 62nd ( 2nd West Riding ) Division, which also served in France 1917 – 18.

* 8th ( Service ) Battalion: raised September 1914: on Western Front from September 1915.

William Bell & Co. commenced the sinking of the coal mine on 11th September 1837, and the first coal was raised to the surface on 8th November 1839.

After the Chinese debacle of 1962 when the need to have a larger army was felt, the Parachute Regiment too had its share of expansion with the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th battalions being raised in a span of two years.

At the outbreak of the Civil War he raised the 8th Missouri Volunteer Infantry, of which he was elected Colonel in 1861.

8th and 9th Divisions were raised in 1947 ; 10, 12th and 14 Divisions were raised in 1948.

It was raised in 1857, as the 8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry.