1st Kumaon Rifles

Chronology:

• October 1917 –raised as the 4th Battalion 39th Garhwal Rifles
• November 1917- became 4th/39th Kumaon Rifles
• April 1918-became 1st/50th Kumaon Rifles
• 1922-grouped with the Jat Regiment
• 1923-affiliated with the 19th Hyderabad Regiment as the 1st Kumaon Rifles

First World War

The 1st/50th Kumaon Rifles fought at the battles of Sharon and Megiddo in Palestine. Two War Diaries are available at The National Archives, catalogue reference Part IV: Egypt, Palestine And Syria: War Diary of the 1/50 Battalion Kumaon Rifles

• 1918 May - 1919 Apr. part of WO 95/4670 - 60 (London) Division and
• 1919 May - 1920 Mar. part of WO 95/4586 - 10 (Irish) Division

In 1921 the regiment was stationed in Constantinople as guard to the Allied Headquarters.

External links

• Kumaon Regiment Wikipedia
• Page 267 Valour and Sacrifice: Famous Regiments of the Indian Army by Gautam Sharma Google Books
• 1979 Audio recording by Mrs Agnes Moffatt, wife of an officer 1st Kumaon Rifles with Typescript Part 1 and Typescript Part 2 s-asian.cam.ac.uk. She first joined her husband in Constantinople in 1921.

Historical books online

• Page 271 Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org. A brief reference to the raising of the 1st Battalion, 50th Kumaonis by Lt-Col E M Lang.
• 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.