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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1994
CHRONOLOGY OF 48 GURKHA INFANTRY BRIGADE
OCTOBER 1941
JANUARY 1942
MAY 1942
MARCH 1943 MARCH 1944
MARCH
MAY 1944
JULY
-
DECEMBER 1944
FORMED AS 48 INDIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE SECUNDERABAD.
SHIPPED TO BURMA. JOINED 17 INDIAN DIVISION ON 8 FEBRUARY.
CROSSED THE BORDER INTO INDIA DURING THE WITHDRAWAL FROM BURMA.
OPERATIONS IN THE TIDDIM/CHIN HILLS AREAS.
THE DEFENCE OF IMPHAL.
RE-EQUIPPING IN THE
TRAINING AND
RANCHI AREA.
IMPHAL.
DECEMBER 1944 FEBRUARY 1945
FEBRUARY 1945
MARCH 1945
APRIL AUGUST 1945
SEPTEMBER 1945
NOVEMBER 1945 MAY 1947
MAY 1947
DECEMBER 1949
JUNE 1950
APRIL 1952
NOVEMBER 1954
That
RETURN TO BURMA.
MEIKTILA CAPTURED.
ADVANCE TO RANGOON,
THE JAPANESE SURRENDER.
GARRISON DUTIES IN BURMA.
48 INDIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE DISBANDED.
48 GURKHA INFANTRY BRIGADE REFORMED AT MENTAKAB, MALAYA.
MOVE TO KUALA LIPIS, MALAYA.
MOVE TO IPOH, MALAYA.
MOVE TO SEK KONG, HONG KONG.
DECEMBER 1976
48
GURKHA INFANTRY DISBANDED WHEN GURKHA FIELD FORCE FORMED BY THE AMALGAMATION OF GURKHA
BRIGADE
WERE
WAS
48
INFANTRY BRIGADE AND
51
INFANTRY BRIGADE UNITS.
DECEMBER 1986
GURKHA FIELD FORCE DISBANDED. GURKHA INFANTRY BRIGADE REFORMED.
48
NOVEMBER 1994
48 GURKHA INFANTRY BRIGADE DISBAND SEK KONG AS A PART OF THE BRITISH FORCES IN HONG KONG.
AT
UNDOWN
OF
/48 GURKHA
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