Gorkha Rifles in Ieper

“IEPER ” is a memorable place for the first city in the world was war.This front line of this period, during this period Ieper was completely destroyed, more than one million people died in this war. Many young Nepalese who served in Gorkha Rifles had to sacrifice their lives in this city that we can see a few names of those nepalese in the center of town for the memories. I try to search on those nepalese who died in this war, how they came here and that they really have?
Gorkha is an interesting link between Kathmandu and Pokhara. The surroundings are fantastic. Gorkha is 25km north of the road between Kathmandu and Pokhara. Prithvi Narayan Shah became the king of Gorkha in 1743 and two years later began a campaign to ensure 25-year later the Kathmandu Valley and the rest of Nepal. After conquering the Kathmandu valley in 1769, Prithvi Narayan Shah moved the capital of Nepal in Kathmandu. By the early 18th century Gorkha had become a minor city. (more…)

In the Gurkha War (1814–1816) they waged war against the British East India Company army. The British were impressed by the Gurkha soldiers and after reaching a stalemate with the Gurkhas, made Nepal a protectorate. Much later, they were granted the right to freely hire them as mercenaries from the interior of Nepal (as opposed to the early British Gurkha mercenaries who were hired from areas such as Assam (i.e., the Sirmoor Rifles) and were then organised in Gurkha regiments in the East India Company army with the permission of then prime minister, Shree Teen (3) Maharaja (Maharana) Jung Bahadur Rana, the first Rana Prime-minister who initiated a Rana oligarchic rule in Nepal. Jung Bahadur was the grandson of the famous Nepalese hero and Prime minister Bhimsen Thapa. Originally Jung Bahadur and his brother Ranodip Singh brought a lot of modernisation to Nepalese society, the abolition of slavery, undermining of taboos regarding the untouchable class, public access to education, etc. But these dreams were short lived when in the coup d’état of 1885 the nephews of Jung Bahadur and Ranodip Singh (the Shumshers J.B., S.J.B. or Satra (17) Family) murdered Ranodip Singh and the sons of Jung Bahadur, stole the name of Jung Bahadur and took control of Nepal.[3][4] This “Shumsher” Rana rule is regarded by some[who?] as one of the reasons for Nepal lagging behind in modern development. The children of Jung Bahadur and Ranodip Singh lived mainly outside of Kathmandu, in Nepal, and in India after escaping the coup d’état of 1885. (more…)