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Known as the '''2nd Baluch (Beluch, Belooch, Beloochi) Battalion''' in the Bombay Army<br>
Known as the '''29th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Regiment of Bombay Infantry''' in the Indian Army
:*[[Battle of Tel el-Kebir|Tel-el-Kebir]]
==Regimental history==*''The Fourth Battalion, Duke of Connaught's Own. Tenth Baluch Regiment in the Great War, 129th D.C.O. Baluchis'' by W. S. Thatcher. 1932. Available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01001795355 .:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=a0y-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PR2 Sample pages], including Contents. Google Books. == External Links links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/129th_Duke_of_Connaught's_Own_Baluchis 129th Baluchis] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/129thbaluchi.htm 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis] British Empire website<br>
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Baluch_Regiment 10th Baluch Regiment] Wikipedia<br>
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/129th_Duke_of_Connaught%27s_Own_Baluchis#/media/File:29TH_BOMBAY_NATIVE_INFANTRY_on_Firing_Exercise_1885_Simkin.jpg Image: The 29th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Bombay Native Infantry on firing exercise]. Coloured lithograph by Richard Simkin, c. 1885. Wikipedia
*Watercolour by Charles James Lyall: [https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:251065/ 1903. 29th Baluch Infantry in undress] Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library.
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khudadad_Khan Khudadad Khan VC] Wikipedia
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170627173123/http://www.defencejournal.com:80/2000/nov/baloch.htm History of The Baloch Regiment 1939-1956] ''Defence Journal'' Karachi November 2000, now archived.
* Page 3 of "The International Prisoners-of-War Agency. The ICRC in World War One". [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf html version], [http://www.icrc.org/eng/assets/files/other/icrc_002_0937.pdf pdf] An eleven page 2007 document setting out the type of records available. Page 3 of the file mentions three POWs in Germany, from the 129th Baluchis, together with one from the [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|127th Baluchis]] captured at La Bassée on the Western Front on 20 December 1914. Retrieved 5 August 2014
===Historical books online===
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Report from the Select Committee on Mortality of Troops (China)''] Reports from Committees 1866 Volume XV Ordered to be printed, by The House of Commons, 24 July 1866. Google Books
: There are brief mentions of the 2nd Belooch Battalion in Shanghai, China and Yokohama, Japan, c 1864, see [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q=Belooch page 143], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q=Belooch pages 163-164], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA193#v=onepage&q=Belooch pages 193-194] [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA228#v=onepage&q=Belooch page 228], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HilcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA351#v=onepage&q=Belooch page 351]. Further references may be found using the search tern Beloochees
:2 companies of the regiment were sent from China to Japan to serve as a guard to the British legation.
:Also see [[2nd China War]].
==References==
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[[Category:Indian Army Infantry Regiments]]
