Guns of the Gurkhas Hardcover Premium Edition Military Awards Medals Badges Insignia the US Motor Transport Board

the US Motor Transport Board set up a project under the direction of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC) to be designated "QMC-4 1/4 Ton Truck Light Amphibian"

Most attractive for use as a plug bayonet or dagger the silver mounts with matching decoration pattern on both dagger and scabbard

firing pin

Amazingly it has remained in private hands after Allenby's death in 1936 and only came to light in the 1970s when it was acquired from a Jeweler in England by an avid American collector who has treasured ever since

The patch is similar to the ETOUSA patch with the addition of the blue 5 pointed star in the white six lobed field

Guns of the Gurkhas Hardcover Premium Edition Military Awards Medals Badges Insignia the US Motor Transport BoardThe story of the firearms used by the Royal Nepalese Army from the Treaty of Segauli to the end of the Second World War, based on detailed examination of the guns and new archival research. It contrasts the persistent desire of the British to supply only obsolete weaponry with Nepalese attempts at up to date construction of firearms under difficult circumstances. Hundreds of full color photos. Special Cloth bound and gold Hardcover Edition, signed by