Gurkha Rifles, 8th (Bengal) Multi Tweed Launched at the 2004 International

Launched at the 2004 International Gift Fair in Glasgow

The delicate over-check evokes the sun as it sets over the Atlantic

It appears in the Highland Society of London collection as Galbraith

following the partition of India

Its initial membership consisted of volunteers from Scottish units that had fought in the war who chose to demobilise and remain in the colony

Gurkha Rifles, 8th (Bengal) Multi Tweed Launched at the 2004 InternationalBlack Watch (Pipe bags & Ribbons) The 8th Gorkha Rifles is a Gorkha regiment of the Indian Army. It was raised in 1824 as part of the British East India Company and later transferred to the British Indian Army after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The regiment served in World War I and World War II, before being one of the six (of ten) Gurkha regiments transferred to the Indian Army after independence in 1947. Since then it has served in a number of