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*'''1922''' became 2nd Bn/[[11th Sikh Regiment]]
*'''1947''' allocated to India on Partition
==War Diaries, First World War==
*A transcribed war diary (of an original handwritten diary, where the handwriting has been deciphered for you!) is available for 15th Ludhiana Sikhs 1914-15 on the Western Front.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-War-Diaries-Ludhiana-1914-15-ebook/dp/B076X75N31/ ''Great War Diaries: 15th Ludhiana Sikhs War Diary 1914-15: Indian Army on the Western Front'']. Available on Kindle - Kindle App available to read the Diary.</ref> See [[Western Front#War Diaries| Western Front - War Diaries]] for more details.
== External Links ==
*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/15thsikhs.htm 15th Ludhiana Sikhs] British Empire website<br>
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/902 ''The Sikhs''] by A E Barstow 2/11th Sikh Regiment (late 15th Ludhiana Sikhs) 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Handbook for the Indian Army: Sikhs''. 1928 edition, reprint 1940, is also available to read on line on the [http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/displayPage.jsp?ID=2673&page=1&CategoryID=1&Searched= Panjab Digital Library].
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The nurse's story : in which reality meets romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel set on the [[Western Front]] during the First World War is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. It is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
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