7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Regiment of Bengal Infantry

Known as 7th Rajputs

Chronology

In the Indian Mutiny the 47th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry did not rebel and, in the ensuing disbandment of Bengal Army regiments, the 47th became the seventh most senior.

• 1861 became the 7th Bengal Native Infantry
• 1883 became 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Bengal Native Infantry
• 1893 became 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
• 1903 became 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Infantry
• 1922 became 3rd Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment
• 1947 allocated to India on Partition and renamed the Rajput Regiment

Battle Honours

• Moodkee
• Ferozeshah
• Aliwal
• Sobraon
• China 1858-59
• Egypt 1882

• Tel-el-Kebir

• Pekin 1900

External Links

• 7th Rajputs British Empire website
  
• 7th Rajput Regiment Wikipedia
• Rajput Regiment Wikipedia
• "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918" by Mark Connelly Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005. pages 65-96. Includes brief mention of 7/Rajputs