3 Gorkha Rifles 

The regiment was raised during the Gurkha War by Sir Robert Colquhoun on 24 April 1815 as the Kemaoon Battalion. It did not consist entirely of Gurkhas but of men from Kumaon and Garhwal. The regiment adopted the tartan of the Clan Colquhoun.

The regiment was primarily used to police the border with Nepal, doing so for many decades until the Indian Mutiny began in 1857. The battalion was actively involved in the efforts to quell it. During the Siege of Delhi - which lasted from March to September 1857 - the regiment, part of Colonel Colin Campbell's Third Column, took part in the storming of Kashmir Gate and gained the Battle Honour "Delhi 1857". The mutiny was quelled by July 1858.

The regiment, having been brought into the line of the Bengal Army, was briefly titled the 18th Bengal Native Infantry in 1861 before the regiment gained its present numeral designation when it became the 3rd Goorka (The Kumaon) Regiment. The regiment saw service in an expedition to Bhutan shortly after the name change.

After independence, the regiment was one of 6 Gurkha regiments (out of 10) to be allocated to the Indian Army as part of the Tripartite Agreement between Britain, India and Nepal. The regiment retained its title until 1950 and became the 3 Gorkha Rifles.

The Battalions:

• 1/3 Gorkha Rifles
• 2/3 Gorkha Rifles
• 3/3 Gorkha Rifles
• 4/3 Gorkha Rifles
• 5/3 Gorkha Rifles