Pari gbolohun ti o tẹle: Lakoko ti 2nd Gurkhas di ọkan ninu awọn ọmọ ogun Gurkha mẹrin lati gbe lọ si Ogun Ilu Gẹẹsi, Battalion 4th ti regiment ti gbe lọ si Ogun India bi Battalion 5th, 8th Gurkha Rifles (Sirmoor Rifles) nibiti o ti wa titi di oni. Oṣiṣẹ oludari akọkọ ti India ti batalionu yii, Lieutenant Colonel (lẹhin Brigadier) Nisi Kanta Chatterji, beere fun Ile-iṣẹ Oogun, lati jẹ ki batalionu tọju akọle 'Sirmoor Rifles', eyiti o gba. Ẹgbẹ́ ọmọ ogun yìí rí ìṣẹ̀lẹ̀ nínú Ogun Indo-Pakistan 1965 (gẹ́gẹ́ bí apá kan ti Ẹgbẹ́ ọmọ ogun Armored 3rd (Independent) Brigade, 28 and 191 Infantry Brigades) níbi tí ó ti dáwọ́ ìlọsíwájú àwọn ọmọ ogun armour Pakistani dúró sí Akhnur nínú Ogun ti Fatwal Ridge. Nínú
Ogun 1971 lodi si Pakistan, batalionu naa bayi gẹgẹbi apakan ti Brigade 68th Mountain, awọn ipamọ corps, lẹẹkan si ri igbese lile ni aabo Chamb-Akhnur. Ó ṣe àtakò márùn-ún tó yọrí sí rere, ó sì tún gba afárá tó wà lórí odò Tawi.