4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry

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Known as 4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry in the Madras Army
Known as 64th Pioneers in the Indian Army

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Chronology

  • 1758 formed as 5th Battalion Coast Sepoys
  • 1769 became 5th Carnatic Battalion
  • 1770 became 4th Carnatic Battalion
  • 1784 became 4th Madras Battalion
  • 1796 became 1st Battalion, 4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
  • 1824 became 4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
  • 1883 became 4th Madras Native Infantry (Pioneers)
  • 1885 became 4th Madras Infantry (Pioneers)
  • 1901 became 4th Madras Pioneers
  • 1903 became 64th Pioneers
  • 1922 became 2nd/1st Madras Pioneers
  • 1929 became Corps of Madras Pioneers
  • 1933 disbanded

Regimental History

Baillie-Ki-Paltan: Being a History of the 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers 1759-1930 by Lieutenant Colonel H. F. Murland 1932

Details history from early Anglo-India, Seringapatam, Ava &c. to Indian Mutiny (in Central India), Afghanistan, Burma, China, East Africa & Mesopotamia in WW1. Available at the British Library and also available as a reprint[1]

External Links

References

  1. ↑ Baillie-Ki-Paltan: Being a History of the 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers 1759-1930 by Lieutenant Colonel H. F. Murland 1932. Naval and Military Press reprint (retrieved 29 April 2014)

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