I forgot to say that the most common reproduction of the 3GR badge is a die struck badge measuring 50mm high x 43 wide. Your badge looks smaller than that ? The museum dates these badges to 1910 > 1947. They became "3rd Queen's Own Gurkha Rifles in April 1908" but I think it took a couple of years for Queen Alexander's cypher to be incorporated into the headdress insignia. Also, as has already been pointed out - I dont know at the exact point the headdress insignia changed to lose the Royal insignia but it certainly wasn't immediate on handover and I know that the 4GR did not change their insignia until India became a republic in 1950 so I suspect that it was the same for the other Gurkha Regiments.
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