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*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/297622.html The 15th Ludhiana Sikhs and the Senussi. The Egyptian Western Desert, November 1915 to February 1916] from Harry Fecitt’s [http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/home.html Harry’s Africa]  kaiserscross.com
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/297622.html The 15th Ludhiana Sikhs and the Senussi. The Egyptian Western Desert, November 1915 to February 1916] from Harry Fecitt’s [http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/home.html Harry’s Africa]  kaiserscross.com
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/36732392/SIKHS-A-Handbook-for-the-Indian-Army-1899  ''Handbook for the Indian Army: Sikhs'' 1928 edition, reprint 1940] by A E Barstow 2/11th Sikh Regiment (late  15th Ludhiana Sikhs) Scribd.com. This edition is also available to read  on line on  the [http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/displayPage.jsp?ID=2673&page=1&CategoryID=1&Searched= Panjab Digital Library]
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/902 ''The Sikhs''] by A E Barstow 2/11th Sikh Regiment (late  15th Ludhiana Sikhs) 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Handbook for the Indian Army: Sikhs''. 1928 edition, reprint 1940, is also available to read  on line on  the [http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/displayPage.jsp?ID=2673&page=1&CategoryID=1&Searched= Panjab Digital Library].
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The nurse's story : in which reality meets romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org.  The hero of this romantic novel set on the [[Western Front]] during the First World War is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97).  There are suggestions that when it was published the book  was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps  not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. It is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to  page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The nurse's story : in which reality meets romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org.  The hero of this romantic novel set on the [[Western Front]] during the First World War is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97).  There are suggestions that when it was published the book  was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps  not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. It is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to  page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
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15th Ludhiana Sikhs

Known as 15th Ludhiana Sikhs or 15th Loodiana Sikhs or 15th Sikhs

Chronology

  • 1846 formed as Regiment of Ludhiana
  • 1861 became 15th Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1864 became 15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
  • 1885 became 15th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry (Ludhiana Sikhs)
  • 1901 became 15th (Ludhiana) Sikh Infantry
  • 1903 became 15th Ludhiana Sikhs
  • 1922 became 2nd Bn/11th Sikh Regiment
  • 1947 allocated to India on Partition

External Links

Historical books online

  • The Sikhs by A E Barstow 2/11th Sikh Regiment (late 15th Ludhiana Sikhs) 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title: Handbook for the Indian Army: Sikhs. 1928 edition, reprint 1940, is also available to read on line on the Panjab Digital Library.
  • A romantic novel: The nurse's story : in which reality meets romance by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel set on the Western Front during the First World War is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. It is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a review of this novel scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the Pittsburgh Press (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.