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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    the cap badge of the South Maratha and Madras Railway rifles credits to the https://www.deadspartan.co.uk/shop.php?ps=1&pg=512 1910 on 4th June the Madras Railway Volunteers and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifle Corps amalgamated to become Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles,[1]...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    @mark paine here is one of the pics i found on wiki hope this will help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombay_Engineer_Group#/media/File:Bombay_Sappers_Uniform.jpg
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    8th Punjab Regiment The 8th Punjab Regiment had its origins in the Madras Army, where its first battalion was raised at Masulipatam in 1798. Four more battalions were raised in 1799-1800. In 1824, they were designated as the 29th, 30th, 31st, 32nd and 33rd Regiments of Madras Native Infantry...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army comprising Gurkha soldiers of Nepalese origin on India's independence in...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    achievement of Alwar state Alwar Lancers: Commandant and a Chohan Rajput (with lance), 1910. Watercolour by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett (1862-1919), 1910. The Alwar Lancers were an independent Indian state force that joined the Imperial Service Troops (IST) scheme in 1888. This had been...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    91st Punjabis (Light Infantry) The 91st Punjabis (Light Infantry) was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment was raised in 1800 as a battalion of Madras Native Infantry. It was designated as the 91st Punjabis in 1903 and became 3rd Battalion 8th Punjab Regiment in 1922...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    3rd Madras Regiment The 3rd Madras Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army formed after the World War I reforms of the Indian Army. The infantry regiments were converted into large regiments with four or five battalions in each regiment plus a training battalion, always...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    12th Cavalry (Frontier Force) It was formed in the British Indian army in 1922 by the amalgamation of 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry (Frontier Force) and 25th Cavalry (Frontier Force) The 22nd Sam Browne's Cavalry (Frontier Force) was raised in 1849 at Lahore by Lieutenant Samuel J. Browne as the...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    11th Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force) The 21st Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force) (Daly's Horse) was raised as the 1st Punjab Irregular Cavalry by Lieutenant Henry Daly at Peshawar on 18 May 1849. It was one of five regiments of Punjab Cavalry raised to...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    Indian Staff Corps The Indian Staff Corps was a branch of the Indian Army during the British Raj. Separate Staff Corps were formed in 1861 for the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Armies, which were later combined into the Indian Army. They were meant to provide officers for the native regiments and...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    Malakand Levies In 1920, when the Swat Levies were reorganized, Sadullah Khan, known as Khan Sahib was promoted as Subedar Major and he thus became the first Subedar Major of Swat Levies. In 1950 regular police was introduced in Swat by conversion of the Levies personnel into it. In Chitral...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    not a special force in the modern sense but more akin to the LRRPs of Vietnam fame or the SAS LRPs in the Malayan emergency period but the above mentioned operated on the ground work established by the Standard Operating Procedures laid by these bunch of men Chindits Active...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    Men of India Shows the BIA soilders drilling
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    Shows Troops of the RIASC
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    King's Commissioned Indian Officer A King's commissioned Indian officer (KCIO) was an Indian officer of the British Indian Army who held a full King's commission after training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in England, as opposed to the Indian commissioned officers (ICOs), who were...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    viceroy's commissioned officer (VCO) was a senior Indian member of the British Indian Army. VCOs were senior in rank to warrant officers in the British Army, and held a commission issued by the viceroy. Also known as "Indian officers" or "native officers", they were treated in almost all...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    Flag staff house new delhi The house is named after the Teen Murti (literally "three statues") Memorial by British sculptor, Leonard Jennings, which stands on the road junction in front of its extensive grounds. The memorial comprises life-size statues of three soldiers, and was built in 1922...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force) Active 1849 - 1922 Country British India Branch Army Type Infantry Size 2 Battalions Nickname(s) Bhai Band Uniform Drab; faced black Engagements North West Frontier of India Indian Mutiny 1857-58 Second Afghan War 1878-80...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    Jodhpur Lancers went to the Great War. Sir Pertab, the 70-year-old Maharaja Regent of Jodhpur, himself accompanied the unit to France. Jodhpur Lancers fought at France and Flanders, Palestine and Syria during the whole of the War from Aug 1914 to Feb 1920. In the Jordan valley, at Haifa, and...
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    Disbanded or Transferred Regiments of the British Indian Army

    The Bikaner Camel Corps was a unit of Imperial Service Troops from India that fought for the Allies in World War I and World War II. The Corps was founded by Maharaja Ganga Singh of the Indian state of Bikaner, as the Ganga Risala after the British government of India accepted his offer to...
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