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*'''1922''' became 10th Battalion [[5th Mahratta Light Infantry]]
*'''1947''' allocated to India on Partition
==First World War==
114th Mahrattas served in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918, including at the Battle of Sharqat, where many awards were granted, and also in Persia.
The regimental history ''Chronology of the 114th Mahrattas'' by A.R.Solly (Times of India Press 1926) provides details.<ref>
brinds [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2001-02/0982447018 Re 114th Marathas] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 Feb 2001, quoting details from ''Sons of John Company - The Indian and Pakistan Armies 1903-1991'' by John Gaylor, Accessed 6 June 2017.</ref> This book was previously available in the now closed Ministry of Defence Library in Whitehall, so is now possibly available in the Ministry of Defence’s [[Prince Consort's Library]] Aldershot, Hampshire, England.<ref>
Wellborne, John [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2005-05/1116408767 Ministry of Defence Liubrary and Information Service,Whitehall] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 18 May 2005. Retrieved 6 June 2017. </ref>
== External Links ==
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/114thmahratta.htm 114th Infantry] British Empire website<br>
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/136498 ''Valour Enshrined''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136498 Archive.org version]. Full title: ''Valour enshrined. A history of the Maratha Light Infantry, 1768-1947'' by M.G. Abhyankar [Volume1], published 1971. (There was a second volume published, by C.L. Proudfoot in 1980, covering the period 1947-1979). The DLI file appears to be a reprint edition which advises first published 1960, but this date is not correct for this book.
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