10th Regiment of Jat Infantry

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Known as 10th Jats

Chronology

In the Indian Mutiny the 65th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry did not rebel and, in the ensuing disbandment of Bengal Army regiments, it became the tenth most senior.

  • 1861 became 10th Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1885 became 10th Bengal Infantry
  • 1897 became 10th (Jat) Bengal Infantry
  • 1901 became 10th Jat Infantry
  • 1903 became 10th Jats
  • 1922 became 3rd Battalion 9th Jat Regiment
  • 1947 allocated to India on Partition. and became 3rd Battalion Jat Regiment.

Regimental histories

  • War Services of the 9th Jat Regiment by Lieut. Col. W. L. Hailes, published 1938. Available in a reprint edition,[1] which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, refer below.
  • War Services of the 9th Jat Regiment, Volume II: 1937-1948 by Lieut. Col. W. L. Hailes and Major J. Ross, edited by Lt.-Col. N. St. J. Becher, published 1965 in a very limited edition of 100 copies. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795379
  • The Jat Regiment; a History of the Regiment, 1803-1947, a c 1967 reprint edition of the previous two volumes. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795380

External links

  • 10th Jats British Empire website
  • Jat Regiment Wikipedia
  • 10th Jats Wikipedia
  • 9th Jat Regiment Wikipedia
  • Abdul Hafiz [3rd Battalion] 9th Jat Regiment. Awarded a Victoria Cross for an action in the hills 10 miles north of Imphal in North East India. April 1944. cwgc.org, now an archived webpage.
Abdul Hafiz (VC) Wikipedia
Jemadar Abdul Hafiz victoriacross.org.uk

Historical books online

  • War Services of the 9th Jat Regiment by Lieut. Col. W. L. Hailes, first published 1938 is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, letter W.

References

  1. War Services of the 9th Jat Regiment first published 1938. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.