45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry

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Known as 45th Rattrays Sikhs

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,[1] 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

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).

References

  1. Regimental History Of The 45th Rattray’s Sikhs During The Great War And After. 1914-1921 by Lieut-Colonel R. H. Anderson Naval & Military Press reprint edition.