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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  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





Revision as of 02:28, 5 August 2014

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

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