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45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry
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Known as 45th Rattrays Sikhs
Chronology
- 1856 raised as The Bengal Military Police Battalion by Capt Thomas Rattray
- 1858 became 1st Bengal Military Police Battalion
- 1861 became Bengal Military Police Battalion
- 1864 became 45th (Rattray's Sikh) Bengal Native Infantry
- 1885 became 45th (Rattray's Sikh) Bengal Infantry
- 1901 became 45th (Rattray's) Sikh Infantry
- 1922 became 3rd/11th Sikh Regiment
- 1947 allocated to India on Partition
Regimental histories
- Regimental History of the 45th Rattray's Sikhs Volume 1 1856-1914 by H. St. G. M. McRae, published 1933. Available at the British Library
- Regimental History Of The 45th Rattray’s Sikhs During The Great War And After. 1914-1921 by Lieut-Colonel R. H. Anderson originally published 1925. Available in a reprint edition,[1] which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, refer below.
- The Regiment spent the period 1914-1916 on India's North-West Frontier, 1916-1918 fighting the Turks in Mesopotamia, and 1919-1921 in Kurdistan
External links
- 45th Rattrays Sikhs British Empire Website
- 45th Rattrays Sikhs sikhsinthearmy.co.uk
- "The Hero of Chakdara’s Own Story" Los Angeles Herald, Volume 27, Number 17, 17 October 1897. Account of Lieutenant H B Rattray of the 45th B I (Rattray’s) Sikhs at the Battle of Chakdara in 1897. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- 45th Rattray Sikhs empirefaithwar.com. First published in The Navy & Army Illustrated, 1902.
- Watercolour by Charles James Lyall: 1903. Subadur-Major Jinwad Sing Batradur, 45th (Rattray's Sikhs) Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library.
Historical books online
- Regimental History Of The 45th Rattray’s Sikhs During The Great War And After. 1914-1921 by Lieut-Colonel R. H. Anderson published 1925 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).
References
- ↑ Regimental History Of The 45th Rattray’s Sikhs During The Great War And After. 1914-1921 by Lieut-Colonel R. H. Anderson Naval & Military Press reprint edition.