11th Sikh Regiment

11th Sikhs on the March through Waziristan 1937

Chronology

• 1922 formed from amalgamation of six Sikh regiments

• 14th (Ferozepore) Regiment of Sikh Infantry became 1st Battalion
• 15th (Ludhiana) Regiment of Sikh Infantry became 2nd Battalion
• 45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry (Rattray's Sikhs) became 3rd Battalion
• 36th Regiment of Sikh Infantry became 4th Battalion
• 47th Regiment of Sikh Infantry became 5th Battalion
• 35th Regiment of Sikh Infantry became 10th (Training) Battalion

• 1947 allocated to India on Partition becoming the Sikh Regiment.

Regimental history

The 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.

Available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see below.

External links

• 11th Sikh Regiment Wikipedia
• 11th Sikh Regiment sikhsinthearmy.co.uk
• "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.

Historical books online

The Sikh Regiment in the Second World War by Colonel F. T. Birdwood c 1950 is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 (located in World War II/Military Books/India).