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*'''1947''' allocated to India on Partition becoming the Sikh Regiment.
==Regimental history==
''Sikh Regiment in the Second World War'' by Colonel F. T. Birdwood c 1950. 462 pages.
The Regiment had nine Infantry Battalions and the Machine Gun Battalion in the field, plus various training and administrative units, which served in almost every theatre of war between 1939 and 1945.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/sikh-regiment-in-the-second-world-war/ ''Sikh Regiment in the Second World War''] by Colonel F. T. Birdwood c 1950. Naval& Military Press</ref>
== External Links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11th_Sikh_Regiment 11th Sikh Regiment] Wikipedia
*[http://www.sikhsinthearmy.co.uk/#/sikh-regiment/4554482100 11th Sikh Regiment] sikhsinthearmy.co.uk
*[http://www.bbc.com/news/stories-41996612 "Returning to Kashmir, where our parents were shot in front of us"] by Andrew Whitehead 16 November 2017 from Baramulla, Kashmir. BBC com. Lieutenant-Colonel Tom Dykes of the Sikh Regiment, and his wife Biddy, and four others were shot dead at St Joseph's Catholic Mission Hospital in the riverside town of Baramulla. Kashmir in October 1947.
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