6th Regiment of Jat Light Infantry

5th & 6th Light Infantry

Chronology

In the Indian Mutiny the 43rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry did not rebel and, in the ensuing disbandment of Bengal Army regiments, the 43rd became the sixth most senior.

• 1861 became 6th Bengal Native (Light) Infantry
• 1897 became 6th Jat Bengal (Light) Infantry
• 1901 became 6th Jat Light Infantry
• 1922 became 1st Royal Battalion (LI) 9th Jat Regiment. Also known as the Royal Jats
• 1947 allocated to India on partition

In 1861 after the mutiny, when the regiment became the 6th Bengal Native (Light) Infantry, the 2nd (Assam) Light Infantry took the title 43rd Bengal Native (Light) Infantry and later became 43rd Gurkha Rifles.

Regimental histories

• War Services of the 9th Jat Regiment by Lieut. Col. W. L. Hailes, published 1938. Available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, refer below.
• War Services of the 9th Jat Regiment, Volume II: 1937-1948 by Lieut. Col. W. L. Hailes and Major J. Ross, edited by Lt.-Col. N. St. J. Becher, published 1965 in a very limited edition of 100 copies. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795379
• The Jat Regiment; a History of the Regiment, 1803-1947, a c 1967 reprint edition of the previous two volumes. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795380

External Links

• 6th Jat Light Infantry British Empire website
  
• Jat Regiment Wikipedia
• 9th Jat Regiment Wikipedia
• 2nd Battalion, Mechanised Infantry Regiment / 1 Jat (LI) globalsecurity.org . The history of the regiment.

Historical books online

• War Services of the 9th Jat Regiment by Lieut. Col. W. L. Hailes, first published 1938 is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, letter W.