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4th PWO Gurkha Rifles

4th POW Gurkha rifles plaque Lt General Vijay Nadan Colonel 4th Hastings chapel St Giles church Stoke Poges
4th Prince of Wales’s Own (PWO) Gurkha Rifles (GR) plaque from Lieutenant General Vijay Nadan, Colonel of the 4th GR, presented to the 4th Gurkha Rifles Association.

The plaque displays a pair of symbolic khukuri – खुकुरी – a type of machete carried by Gurkhas and the Prince of Wales’s plume of three ostrich feathers by a royal coronet with the words, ich dien: ‘I serve’.


On display in the Hastings chapel
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4th PWO Gurkha Rifles information sheet in the Hastings chapel which includes information on memorabilia and memorial in St Giles’ church and the adjacent Memorial Gardens
Officers’ Roll of Honour
Gate into the 4th POW Gurkha Rifles garden in the
Stoke Poges Memorial Gardens
Major General Sir Arthur Mordaunt Mills IV Gurkha by Bassano Ltd 1961

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Major General Sir Arthur Mordaunt Mills IV Gurkha by Bassano Ltd 1961 is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license. © National Portrait Gallery, London

The inspiration for the Memorials in the Hastings chapel, St Giles’ church and in the Memorial Gardens in Stoke Poges was the Colonel of the Regiment: Major General Mills. The work was completed in 1949. In 1947, after India’s independence, the IV Gurkha Rifles became part of the Indian Army as the Fourth Gorkha Rifles.

Major-General Sir Arthur Mordaunt Mills, C.B., D.S.O (1879-1964)

He was the son of an army Colonel: Arthur McLeod Mills of Hythe, Kent. He joined the army in 1900 and was steadily promoted as an Officer. He saw action in the South African War, then in the Indian Army followed by World War 1. His work with the Gurkha Rifles came about in 1925 when he was promoted to take Command of the 2nd Battalion, IV PWO Gurkha Rifles. The rest of his military service was as Assistant Adjutant General, Northern Command, India 1929-1930; Cdr, Razmak Brigade, Waziristan, North West Frontier, India 1930-1934; Aide-de-camp to the King 1933-1935; Military Adviser-in-Chief, Indian State Forces 1935-1939;  Colonel of the IV Prince of Wales’ Own Gurkha Rifles 1935-1950. He retired in 1939.

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