4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry

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

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

Details history from early Anglo-India, Seringapatam, Ava &c. to Indian Mutiny (in Central India), Afghanistan, Burma, China, East Africa & Mesopotamia in WW1.

External Links

• 64th Pioneers regiments.org
  
• 64th Pioneers British Empire website
  
• 64th Pioneers Wikipedia (retrieved 29 April 2014)
• 1st Madras Pioneers Wikipedia (retrieved 29 April 2014)
• Madras Pioneers Wikipedia
• "A chapter from the war" by Allan Moses Rodricks September 19, 2014 The Hindu Bangalore . A memorial in Bangalore to the officers, non-commissioned officers and soldiers of the 1st Madras Pioneers who gave their lives in The Great War 1914-1918. Includes the 64th Pioneers.

Historical books online

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