15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Sikh Infantry
Known as 15th Ludhiana Sikhs or 15th Loodiana Sikhs or 15th Sikhs
Chronology
- 1846 formed as Regiment of Ludhiana
- 1861 became 15th Bengal Native Infantry
- 1864 became 15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
- 1885 became 15th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry (Ludhiana Sikhs)
- 1901 became 15th (Ludhiana) Sikh Infantry
- 1903 became 15th Ludhiana Sikhs
- 1922 became 2nd Bn/11th Sikh Regiment
- 1947 allocated to India on Partition
External Links
- 15th Ludhiana Sikhs British Empire website
- 15th Ludhiana Sikhs Wikipedia
- 1st Battalion King George V’s Own, Ferozepore Sikhs, and Loodiana Sikhs, 11th Sikh Regiment sikhsinthearmy.co.uk
- Watercolour by Charles James Lyall: 1900. 15th Loodiana Sikhs. Bengal. Bugler Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library
- A Guide To WW1 Indian War Diaries: Researching Indian Soldiers Using War Diaries. Scroll down to excerpts from the war diary of the 15th Sikhs between August and October 1914 (WO95/3929/5), from mobilization in India for overseas deployment, to the trenches on the Western Front. empirefaithwar.com
- Manta Singh and the Battle of Neuve Chapell, France, March 1915. Regiment: 15th Ludhiana Sikhs. cwgc.org
- "An Indian Soldier in the Great War" Subedar Manta Singh. Text from Ian Hislop’s Not Forgotten documentaries about the WW1, shown c 2009 on Channel 4.
- The 15th Ludhiana Sikhs and the Senussi. The Egyptian Western Desert, November 1915 to February 1916 from Harry Fecitt’s Harry’s Africa kaiserscross.com
Historical books online
- Handbook for the Indian Army: Sikhs 1928 edition, reprint 1940 by A E Barstow 2/11th Sikh Regiment (late 15th Ludhiana Sikhs) Scribd.com. This edition is also available to read on line on the Panjab Digital Library
- A romantic novel: The nurse's story : in which reality meets romance by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel set on the Western Front during the First World War is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. It is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a review of this novel scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the Pittsburgh Press (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.