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*[http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/oct/bookreview.htm History of The Baloch Regiment 1820-1939 The Colonial Period]  ''Defence Journal'' Karachi October 2000
*[http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/oct/bookreview.htm History of The Baloch Regiment 1820-1939 The Colonial Period]  ''Defence Journal'' Karachi October 2000
*[http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/nov/baloch.htm History of The Baloch Regiment 1939-1956] ''Defence Journal'' Karachi November 2000
*[http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/nov/baloch.htm 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". [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  3 POWs in Germany,  from the 129th Baluchis, captured at La Bassée on the Western Front on 20 December 1914.  Retrieved 5 August 2014





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Known as the 2nd Baluch 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

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