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*'''1922''' became 3rd/[[5th Mahratta Light Infantry]]
*'''1947''' allocated to India on Partition
==Regimental history==
*''A brief history of the Mahratta Light Infantry'' compiled by J.S. Barr. 1945. 65 pages. Mainly [[Second World War]].
: Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01012499515. Also available for Scribd members on [https://www.scribd.com/document/455767104/Brief-History-of-Mahratta-Light-Infantry-pdf Scribd] and for those with suitable University access on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002028277 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*Also see First World War, and Historical books online, below.
==First World War==
Regimental History: ''Historical record 110th Mahratta Light Infantry (now 3rd Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry) during the Great War, 1914 to 1918'', published 1927. Also available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available online on the pay website fold3, refer below.
The Regiment was one of the Indian army formations caught up in the disaster at Kut-al-Asmara in Mesopotamia (today's Iraq) in which a garrison commended by General Sir Charles Townshend was bottled up and compelled to surrender by the Turks. After the tragedy of Kut - in which many soldiers perished in Turkish captivity - the regiment was re-formed from its surviving remnants and saw service in the Palestinian campaign in the closing months of the war.<ref name=MLI>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/historical-record-110th-mahratta-light-infantry-during-the-great-war/ ''HIstorical Record 110th Mahratta Light Infantry During The Great War''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> == External Links links ==
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/110thmahratta.htm 110th Maratta Light Infantry] British Empire website<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratha_Light_Infantry Maratha Light Infantry] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/110th_Mahratta_Light_Infantry 110th Mahratta Light Infantry] Wikipedia
==== Historical books on-line online ====*''Lists of the officers of His Majesty's and the Hon. Company's troops serving under the Presidency of Bombay'' from Adjutant General's Office January 1st 1798 [http://books.google.com/books?id=j0MIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PR3&dq=Lists+of+the+officers+of+His+Majesty's,+and+the+Hon.+Company's+troops++Samuel+Goodfellow&hl=en&ei=Y6MkTfeTMoywhQe1yZW0Ag&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false 2nd Battalion 5th Regiment Officers' muster roll in Surat] Google Books*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.136498 ''Valour Enshrined''] Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Valour enshrined. A history of the Maratha Light Infantry, 1768-1947'' by M.G. Abhyankar [Volume 1], published 1971. The DLI file appears to be a reprint edition which advises first published 1960, but this date is not correct for this book.:There was a second volume published, by C.L. Proudfoot in 1980, covering the period 1947-1979, available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01011832039, and for those with suitable University access on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006723888 HathiTrust Digital Library]. *''Historical record 110th Mahratta Light Infantry (now 3rd Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry) during the Great War, 1914 to 1918'', published 1927 is available in a reprint edition,<ref name=MLI/> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsyFR58plu online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books/India. == References ==<references />
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