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{{Infobox monument
| name = Gurkha Memorial
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| image = Gurkha Soldier Monument, London - April 2008.jpg
| caption = The memorial in 2008. [[Whitehall Court]] is in the background.
| location = [[London]]
| designer = [[Philip Jackson (sculptor)|Philip Jackson]]
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The '''Memorial to the [[Brigade of Gurkhas]]''' on [[Horse Guards Avenue]], [[Whitehall]], London, was unveiled by Queen [[Elizabeth II]] on 3 December 1997. This was the first memorial to [[Gurkha]] soldiers in the United Kingdom, and was occasioned by transfer of their headquarters and training centre from [[Hong Kong]] to London in 1997. The sculptor was [[Philip Jackson (sculptor)|Philip Jackson]], working from a statue of 1924 by [[Richard Reginald Goulden]] in the [[Foreign and Commonwealth Office]], and the plinth was designed by Cecil Denny Highton.<ref name="W-J"/>

Two casts of Goulden's sculpture had previously been erected in locations in [[Nepal]] as World War I memorials to the Gurkhas, the first at [[Kunraghat]] in 1928 and the second at [[Birpur]] in 1930. The memorial in London is more than one and a half times the size of this model, so Jackson worked the figure up in his own style and from a living model, Captain Khemkumar Limbu.<ref name="W-J">{{citation
| last = Ward-Jackson | first = Philip
| year = 2011
| title = Public Sculpture of Historic Westminster: Volume 1
| series = Public Sculpture of Britain
| location = Liverpool
| publisher = Liverpool University Press
| pages = 66–7
}}
</ref> One of several inscriptions on the plinth is a quotation from Sir [[Ralph Lilley Turner]], a former officer in the [[3rd Gurkha Rifles]].

{{gallery
|File:Gurkha statue, Foreign Office.jpg|Richard Reginald Goulden's original at the Foreign Office
|File:Gurkha inscription.JPG|Inscription by Sir Ralph Turner
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==Inscriptions==
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| title = The Inscription
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| quote = THE GURKHA SOLDIER ''Bravest of the brave,'' ''most generous of the generous,'' ''never had country'' ''more faithful friends'' ''than you.''
| source = Professor Sir [[Ralph Lilley Turner]] MC
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<div style="text-align: center;">
1st King George V's Own Gurkha Riflles 
(The Malaun Regiment) 
2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles 
(The Sirmoor Rifles) 
3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles 
4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles 
5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force) 
6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles 
7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles 
8th Gurkha Rifles 9th Gurkha Rifles 
10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles 
11th Gurkha Rifles 
The Royal Gurkha Rifles 
The Queen's Gurkha Engineers 
Queen's Gurkha Signals 
Gurkha Military Police 
The Queen's Own Gurkha Transport Regiment 
 
Other units in which Gurkha soldiers served after 1815 
and also the units of the Royal Nepalese Army 
which, as Britain's allies, took part in the Indian Mutiny 
and the First and Second World Wars.
</div>
{{hidden end}}

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<div style="text-align: center;">
India 1816–1826 
North East Frontier and Burma 1824–1939 
First Sikh War 1845–1846 
North West Frontier 1852–1947 
Indian Mutiny 1857–1859 
Bhutan 1864–1866 
Malaya 1875–1876 
Second Afghan War 1878–1880 
Sikkim 1888 
China 1900 
Tibet 1904 
Third Afghan War 1919 
Kurdustan 1919 
Iraq 1919–1920 
North West Persia 1920 
Malabar 1921–1922 
Palestine 1945–1946 
Java and Sumatra 1945–1946 
Indo-China 1945–1946 
Malaya 1948–1960 
Brunei 1962 
Borneo 1963–1966 
Malay Peninsula 1964–1965 
Falkland Islands 1982 
The Gulf 1990–1991 
Bosnia 1996
</div>
{{hidden end}}

{{hidden begin|titlestyle=text-align: center;|border=#aaa 1px solid|title=''Battle Honours'' text}}
<div style="text-align: center;">
FIRST WORLD WAR 
1914–1918 
France and Belgium 
Gallipoli 
Egypt and Palestine 
Mesopotamia 
 
SECOND WORLD WAR 
1939–1945 
North Africa 
Italy 
Greece 
Persia, Iraq and Syria 
Malaya and Singapore 
Burma
</div>
{{hidden end}}

==See also==
* [[1997 in art]]
* [[Brigade of Gurkhas]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|The Gurkha Soldier, London}}
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1997/gurkhas/36397.stm The Gurkhas – Britain's oldest allies] (December 4, 1997), BBC News
* [http://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/gurkha-soldier Statue: Gurkha soldier] at London Remembers
* [http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMCQGX_The_Gurkha_Soldier_Memorial_Horse_Guards_Avenue_London_UK The Gurkha Soldier Memorial – Horse Guards Avenue, London, UK] at Waymarking

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