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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.
<ref>Abstract of a paper A Rajput in France and Palestine: With the Jodhpur Lancers
in the Great War by MS Jodha presented at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140610091810/http://www.indiaww1.in/Conference.pdf ''India and the Great War'' Conference] at The United Service Institution of India New Delhi: 5-7 March 2014, now an archived webpage.</ref>
===Kashmir Rifles===
2nd Battalion Kashmir Rifles was sent to East Africa, see [[Kashmir Infantry]]
