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79th Regiment of Foot

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Service in British India
*'''1924''' [[Calcutta]]
*'''1927''' [[Rangoon]]
:In May 1930, following the massacre of Indians by Burmese in Rangoon, a detachment of the regiment occupied the centre of the Indian quarter, planting their machine-guns in such away as to make it impossible for the Burmese to invade the area.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528179/page/n195 Pages 197-198], ''Trials in Burma'' by Maurice Collis 1938, available to read online on the [[Online books#Archive.org , mirror from Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.</ref>
*'''1930''' [[Fyzabad]]
*'''1938''' Ahmednagar
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