Royal Gurkha Rifles

The Royal Gurkha Rifles
Cap badge
Active	1 July 1994 – present
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Type	Rifles
Role	1st Battalion – Light Infantry 2nd Battalion – Air Assault Infantry Coriano Company – Specialist Infantry Falklands Company —Specialist Infantry Sittang Company, Mandalay Company, Tavoleto Company—OPFOR
Size	Two battalions Five companies
Part of	Brigade of Gurkhas Light Division
Garrison/HQ	RHQ – Camberley[1] 1st Battalion – Shorncliffe 2nd Battalion – Seria, Brunei Coriano Company – Aldershot Garrison Falklands Company – Aldershot Garrison Sittang Company – Royal Military Academy Sandhurst Mandalay Company – Infantry Battle School Tavoleto Company – Land Warfare Centre
Nickname(s)	The Gurkhas
March	Quick – "Bravest of the Brave" Double Past – "Keel Row" Slow (band) – "God Bless the Prince of Wales" Slow (pipes and drums) – "The Garb of Auld Gaul"
Anniversaries	Meiktila (1 March) Medicina (16 April) Regimental Birthday (1 July) Gallipoli (7 August) Delhi Day (14 September)
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief	The King
Colonel of the Regiment	Major General Gerald Strickland
Insignia
Tactical recognition flash
Tartan	Douglas (pipers' trews and plaids), from 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles
Abbreviation	RGR

The Royal Gurkha Rifles (RGR) is a rifle regiment of the British Army, forming part of the Brigade of Gurkhas. Unlike other regiments in the British Army, RGR soldiers are recruited from Nepal, which is neither a dependent territory of the United Kingdom nor a member of the Commonwealth.