Providing financial medical and community aid to alleviate hardship and distress among Gurkha ex-servicemen of the British Crown

Gurkha Timeline

Follow a 200 year old story of how Gurkhas became part of the British Army, the wars they have fought alongside us and why in the 1960s we realised these gallant soldiers needed our help.

																1814 - 1816 Nepal War: Peace treaty sees Gurkhas fight for the British East India Company Army			1817 Gurkhas serve Britain in the Pindaree War as part of the East India Company Army																												1845-1846 Serve in the First Anglo Sikh War			1848-1849 Serve in the Second Anglo Sikh War									1857 Remain loyal to the British during the Indian Sepoy Rebellion	1858 First of 26 Victoria Crosses earned by a Gurkha Regiment																			1877 - 1878 Serve in Second Afgan War																							1900 Serve during Boxer Rebellion, China				1904 Part of Younghusband's Expedition, Tibet										1914-1918 First World War: Over 100,000 Gurkhas serve, 20,000 casualties, 2,000 gallantry awards																									1939 - 1945 Second World War: Over 132,000 Gurkhas serve, 23,000 casualties, 2,734 bravery awards								1947 On Indian independence, of 10 Gurkha Regiments six regiments join the Indian Army, four remain in the British Army	1948-1960 Malaya														1962-1966 Borneo			1965 Gurkha awarded latest of 26 Victoria Crosses earned by Gurkha Regiments: 13 by Nepalese Gurkhas, 13 by British officers serving with the Gurkhas.				1969 Gurkha Welfare Trust is founded, with the primary aim of providing Welfare Pensions to retired Gurkhas who did not serve the 15 years required for an army pension.													1982-2007 Gurkhas serve Britain in every major conflict since the Falklands, including two Gulf Wars, Iraq, Afghanistan, peacekeeping roles in Kosovo, Bosnia, East Timor and Sierra Leone																									2007 All Gurkhas who serve post 1997 are awarded pension rights equal to other British servicemen.		2009 All Gurkhas who served four years after 1948 are awarded UK citizenship rights following a high profile campaign by Gurkha Welfare Trust Vice Patron and actress, Joanna Lumley. 2009 The Gurkha Welfare Trust continues to provide welfare pensions for 9,000 veterans in Nepal, together with emergency grants, education grants, medical care and community aid projects through 20 Area Welfare Centres, as well as resolving to help meet the welfare needs of those Gurkhas who choose to settle in Britain.	2010 Gurkhas continue to fight with the British in Afghanistan
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