Goorkha

I remember an uncle of hers in India — daring chap, a Goorkha regiment, they swore by him.

Maid in Waiting 2004

What the Goorkha is in Indian warfare, so the Boer is in Africa.

Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front A. G. Hales

I much regret that I cannot record his name, but before being appointed to the Goorkha corps he was a non-commissioned officer in the Bengal European regiment.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

Regiment in embarking the Reserves of the 3rd Bn. Grenadier Guards in the _Goorkha_, which ship I had been superintending for so long; I was able to get their Commanding Officer, Major Kincaid, two good cabins, for which I think he was much obliged to me.

With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service

Liverpool, etc., to be officially passed at Southampton; among others the _Goorkha_ and _Gascon_, two Union Liners, came particularly under me, and I shall always remember the courtesy of their officials, particularly Captain Wait and the indefatigable Mr. Langley, who saw that we transport officers were well looked after on board each day.

With the Naval Brigade in Natal (1899-1900) Journal of Active Service

He accordingly sent out two companies of the Goorkha regiment with directions to proceed to the "Dundun Shikkun Kotul," there to meet the convoy and protect them in their passage through the Kammurd valley.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

Goorkha regiment at Charikar, and the slaughter of all the Europeans in that district except Major Pottinger and Lieutenant Haughton, both severely wounded, who, with one sepoy and one or two followers, succeeded in eluding the vigilance of the Affghan parties, who were patrolling the roads for the purpose of intercepting them, and at length arrived in cantonments, having actually passed at night through the town and bazars of Cabul.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 328, February, 1843 Various

Someone, not a Goorkha, was standing beside him, fighting as he fought, but in grim silence.

Rosa Mundi and Other Stories 1910

In the next dock was the _Goorkha_, into whose commodious maw were pouring the 2nd Lincolnshire Regiment, the 9th

The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907

Three steamers were waiting to receive the troops; the Peninsular and Oriental liner _Assaye_, the Union Steamship Company's _Goorkha_, and the Castle liner _Braemar Castle_.

The Relief of Mafeking How it Was Accomplished by Mahon's Flying Column; with an Account of Some Earlier Episodes in the Boer War of 1899-1900 Filson Young 1907