7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Regiment of Bengal Infantry

Known as 7th Rajputs

Chronology

In the Indian Mutiny the 47th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry did not rebel and, in the ensuing disbandment of Bengal Army regiments, the 47th became the seventh most senior.

• 1861 became the 7th Bengal Native Infantry
• 1883 became 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Bengal Native Infantry
• 1893 became 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
• 1903 became 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Infantry
• 1922 became 3rd Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment
• 1947 allocated to India on Partition and renamed the Rajput Regiment

Battle Honours

• Moodkee
• Ferozeshah
• Aliwal
• Sobraon
• China 1858-59
• Egypt 1882

• Tel-el-Kebir

• Pekin 1900

Regimental history

• History of the Rajput Regiment by Mustasad Ahmad published from 1977.

Contents: v. 1 Heritage : 1778-1947 -- v. 2 Living up to heritage : 1947-1970 -- v. 3. Bejewelled heritage : 1970-2005 by Anil Shorey.

Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008834694

• Also see Historical books online, below.

External links

• 7th Rajputs British Empire website
  
• 7th Rajput Regiment Wikipedia
• Rajput Regiment Wikipedia
• "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918" by Mark Connelly Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005. pages 65-96, now archived. Includes brief mention of 7/Rajputs
• "7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajputs in the First World War" 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion researchingww1.co.uk. Includes extracts from War Diaries.
• 7th Rajput Mutiny Two soldiers were charged by court martial with the charge of Mutiny in 1916. flickr.com

Historical books online

• The History of the 3rd Battalion 7th Rajput Regiment - Duke of Connaught's Own by H. G. Rawlinson 1941. Central Secretariat Library (CSL) Digital Repository, Delhi. Archive.org mirror version.

"Covers the period from 1778 to 1940. The principal campaigns described are - First Sikh War (1845-7), Second China War (1860), Egypt (1882), Third China War (1900), and then Aden and Mesopotamia in WWI."

• St. George and the Chinese Dragon. An Account of the Relief of the Pekin Legations by an Officer of the British Contingent by Colonel H B Vaughan 7th Rajputs 1902 Archive.org