127th Baluch Light Infantry

From a painting by Major A.C. Lovett

Known as the 1st Baluch Battalion in the Bombay Army
Known as the 27th Baluch Light Infantry in the Indian Army

Chronology

• 1844 raised as the Balooch Battalion
• 1858 became 1st Bengal Military Police Battalion
• 1846 became the 1st Baluch Battalion
• 1858 became the 1st Baluch Extra Battalion
• 1859 became the 1st Baluch Regiment
• 1871 became the 27th Bombay Native (Light) Infantry
• 1888 became the 27th (1st Baluch Battalion) Bombay Light Infantry
• 1901 became the 27th Baluch Light Infantry
• 1903 became the 127th (Queen Mary's Own) Baluch Light Infantry
• 1922 became the 3rd (Queen Mary's Own)/10th Baluch Regiment
• 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition

External Links

• 127th Baluch Light Infantry Wikipedia
  
• 127th Baluch Light Infantry British Empire website
• Taita Hills Rebellion 1898 www.kaiserscross.com
• East and Central Africa Medal 1897-99 with clasp: Uganda 1897-98, awarded to Sepoy Ahmad Khan, 27th (1st Baluch Battalion), Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry. The 27th (1st Baluch Battalion), Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry were one of three Indian Army regiments that took part in the suppression of a mutiny by the Sudanese troops used by the Colonial Government in Uganda. National Army Museum
• 10th Baluch Regiment Defence Journal Karachi June 1999. Probably an extract from Sons Of John Company by John Gaylor.
• History of The Baloch Regiment 1820-1939 The Colonial Period Defence Journal Karachi October 2000
• History of The Baloch Regiment 1939-1956 Defence Journal Karachi November 2000
• Page 3 of "The International Prisoners-of-War Agency. The ICRC in World War One". html version, pdf An eleven page 2007 document setting out the type of records available. Page 3 of the file mentions a POW in Germany, from the 127th Baluchis, along with 3 from the 129th Baluchis captured at La Bassée on the Western Front on 20 December 1914. Retrieved 5 August 2014