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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170627173123/http://www.defencejournal.com:80/2000/nov/baloch.htm  History of The Baloch Regiment 1939-1956] ''Defence Journal'' Karachi November 2000, now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170627173123/http://www.defencejournal.com:80/2000/nov/baloch.htm  History of The Baloch Regiment 1939-1956] ''Defence Journal'' Karachi November 2000, now archived.
* Page 3 of "The International Prisoners-of-War Agency. The ICRC in World War One". [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf html version], [http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf pdf]    An eleven page 2007 document setting out the type of records available.  Page 3 of the file mentions  three POWs in Germany,  from the 129th Baluchis, together with one from the [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|‎127th Baluchis]] captured at La Bassée on the Western Front on 20 December 1914.  Retrieved 5 August 2014
* Page 3 of "The International Prisoners-of-War Agency. The ICRC in World War One". [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf html version], [http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf pdf]    An eleven page 2007 document setting out the type of records available.  Page 3 of the file mentions  three POWs in Germany,  from the 129th Baluchis, together with one from the [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|‎127th Baluchis]] captured at La Bassée on the Western Front on 20 December 1914.  Retrieved 5 August 2014
===Historical books online===
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Report from the Select Committee on Mortality of Troops (China)''] Reports from Committees 1866 Volume XV Ordered to be printed, by The House of Commons, 24 July 1866. Google Books
: There are brief mentions of the 2nd Belooch Battalion in Shanghai, China and Yokohama, Japan, c 1864,  see [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q=Belooch page 143], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q=Belooch pages 163-164], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA193#v=onepage&q=Belooch pages 193-194] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA228#v=onepage&q=Belooch page 228], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA351#v=onepage&q=Belooch  page 351]. Further references may be found using the search tern Beloochees
:2 companies of the regiment were sent from China to Japan to serve as a guard to the British legation.<ref>Josh&Historyland. [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12331 2nd Beluch/Belooch/Beloochi Regiment at Yokohama 1863-1865] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 8 March 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.</ref>
:Also see [[2nd China War]].
==References==
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Revision as of 07:54, 9 March 2018

Known as the 2nd Baluch (Beluch, Belooch, Beloochi) Battalion in the Bombay Army
Known as the 29th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Regiment of Bombay Infantry in the Indian Army

Chronology

  • 1846 raised as the 2nd Baluch Battalion
  • 1858 became 2nd Baluch Extra Battalion of Bombay Native Infantry
  • 1859 became 2nd Bombay Baluch Regiment
  • 1861 became the 29th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry
  • 1883 became 29th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry
  • 1888 became 29th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Regiment of Bombay Infantry
  • 1903 became 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis
  • 1922 4th Bn (Duke of Connaught's Own), 10th Baluch Regiment
  • 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition

Battle Honours

External Links

"Why I feel so privileged to take possession of the first Victoria Cross awarded to a Muslim" by Lord Ashcroft June 9, 2016 conservativehome.com. Subadar Khudadad Khan, 129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis, then a sepoy, for actions on the Western Front on 31 October 1914.

Historical books online

There are brief mentions of the 2nd Belooch Battalion in Shanghai, China and Yokohama, Japan, c 1864, see page 143, pages 163-164, pages 193-194 page 228, page 351. Further references may be found using the search tern Beloochees
2 companies of the regiment were sent from China to Japan to serve as a guard to the British legation.[1]
Also see 2nd China War.

References

  1. Josh&Historyland. 2nd Beluch/Belooch/Beloochi Regiment at Yokohama 1863-1865 Victorian Wars Forum 8 March 2018. Retrieved 9 March 2018.