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==First World War==
===Faridkot Sappers and Miners ===
The State of Faridkot lies forty miles south east of Lahore in the Punjab. Faridkot Sappers and Miners were
raised, and paid for by the His Highness the Maharajah of Faridkot, recruited from his princely state of Faridkot. The Indian officers and troops were all from Faridkot. Initally the Faridkots were the only Field Engineeer unit deployed in the East African Campaign.
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=== Jodhpur Lancers===
The Jodhpur Lancers were supposedly the most aristocratic unit in India that went to the Great War. Sir Pertab, the 70-year-old Maharaja Regent of Jodhpur, himself accompanied the unit to France. Jodhpur Lancers fought at France and Flanders, Palestine and Syria during the whole of the War from Aug 1914 to Feb 1920. In the Jordan valley, at Haifa, and at Aleppo, the Jodhpur Lancers acquitted themselves gloriously.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140508054942/http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/conferences/2012ImperialMcClenaghan.pdf "The Imperial Service Troops Scheme in the 19th and 20th Centuries"] by Tony McClenaghan BCMH Summer Conference 2012 – Indian Armies (The British Commission for Military History bcmh.org.uk, now an archived page)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150313073054/http://www.orbat.info/cimh/british%20india/Imperial%20Service%20Troops.pdf "British Indian Army: Imperial Service Troops (1888-1918)"] by Paul Watson September 27, 2006 orbat.com, now archived.
*"East African Campaign 1914 – 1918: Faridkot Sappers & Miners" by Richard Sneyd [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2FCampaign-East-Africa-Copy-for-GWAA-site.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Campaign-East-Africa-Copy-for-GWAA-site.pdf pdf] gweaa.com. Robert (Robin) Thomas Stuart Sneyd was working as a civil engineer in Madras Presidency when he joined the Indian Army Reserve of Officers in March 1915 and joined the Faridkots at Voi in British East Africa in October 1915 as a Lieutenant.
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/534401.html "Macedonia 1916-1918: Indian Military Transport Units in Macedonia"] by Harry Fecitt, ''Harry’s Sideshows'' kaiserscross.com. Includes details of the Bharatpur Imperial Service Transport Corps and the Indore Imperial Service Transport Corps with pack mule and mule cart duties.
*"The [[30th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|30th Punjabis]] at Tandamuti Hill and Nakadi Ridge East Africa, February – October 1917" by Harry Fecitt, March 2015 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fgweaa.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F02%2F30th-Punjabis-at-Tandamuti-Hill-and-Nakadi.pdf html version], [http://gweaa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/30th-Punjabis-at-Tandamuti-Hill-and-Nakadi.pdf pdf] gweaa.com. There is a mention of the 1st Kashmir Imperial Service Mountain Battery.
