1st Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent

Known as 94th Russell's Infantry

Chronology

• 1813 raised as 1st Battalion of Sir Henry Russell's Brigade
• 1826 became 1st Regiment of Infantry, Nizam's Army
• 1854 became 1st Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent
• 1903 became 94th Russell's Infantry
• 1922 became 1st (Russell's) Battalion 19th Hyderabad Regiment
• 1945 became The Kumaon Regiment
• 1947 allocated to India on Partition

External Links

• 94th Russell's Infantry British Empire website
• 94th Russell's Infantry Wikipedia
• 19th Hyderabad Regiment Wikipedia
• Kumaon Regiment Wikipedia
• Page 272 Valour and Sacrifice: Famous Regiments of the Indian Army by Gautam Sharma Google Books

Historical books online

• Valour Triumphs: A History of the Kumaon Regiment by K C Praval 1976. Copy and paste the following link in your browser

http://lib.perdana.org.my/PLF/PLF2/Digital_Content/PLF/000013/OCRed/Valour Triumphs.pdf or

access the archived version Archive.org.