45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry

Chronology

• 1856 raised as The Bengal Military Police Battalion by Capt Thomas Rattray
• 1858 became 1st Bengal Military Police Battalion
• 1861 became Bengal Military Police Battalion
• 1864 became 45th (Rattray's Sikh) Bengal Native Infantry
• 1885 became 45th (Rattray's Sikh) Bengal Infantry
• 1901 became 45th (Rattray's) Sikh Infantry
• 1922 became 3rd/11th Sikh Regiment
• 1947 allocated to India on Partition

Regimental histories

• Regimental History of the 45th Rattray's Sikhs Volume 1 1856-1914 by H. St. G. M. McRae, published 1933. Available at the British Library
• Regimental History Of The 45th Rattray’s Sikhs During The Great War And After. 1914-1921 by Lieut-Colonel R. H. Anderson originally published 1925. Available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, refer below.

The Regiment spent the period 1914-1916 on India's North-West Frontier, 1916-1918 fighting the Turks in Mesopotamia, and 1919-1921 in Kurdistan

External links

• 45th Rattrays Sikhs British Empire Website
• 45th Rattrays Sikhs sikhsinthearmy.co.uk
• "The Hero of Chakdara’s Own Story" Los Angeles Herald, Volume 27, Number 17, 17 October 1897. Account of Lieutenant H B Rattray of the 45th B I (Rattray’s) Sikhs at the Battle of Chakdara in 1897. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
• 45th Rattray Sikhs empirefaithwar.com. First published in The Navy & Army Illustrated, 1902.
• Watercolour by Charles James Lyall: 1903. Subadur-Major Jinwad Sing Batradur, 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library.

Historical books online

• Regimental History Of The 45th Rattray’s Sikhs During The Great War And After. 1914-1921 by Lieut-Colonel R. H. Anderson published 1925 is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 (located in World War II/Military Books/India).