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created 1 July 2000. Corrected and updated
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The Rajput
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| How to find information about individuals who served in this corps |
| 1922.03.01 | 7th
Rajput Regiment formed at Fategarh by union: |
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| 1945.10 | The Rajput Regiment | |
| 1947.08 | allocated to India at partition and independence | |
| 1950 | 1st Bn [2nd Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry] transferred as 4th Bn, The Brigade of the Guards | |
| 1979 | 18th Bn transferred as 13th Bn, The Mechanised Infantry Regiment | |
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The Rajput Regiment (Bharat Rakshak) | |
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The Rajput Regiment, by D.S. Sandhu (Bharat Rakshak Monitor) | |
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The Rajput Regiment (GlobalSecurity.org) | |
| Regimental Centre: | ||
| Fategarh [1947-present] | ||
| Regulars: | ||
| 1st Battalion (Queen Victoria's Own Light Infantry) [1922-1950] | ||
| 2nd Battalion (Prince Albert Victor's) [1922-present] | ||
| 3rd Battalion (Duke of Connaught's Own) [1922-present] | ||
| 4th Battalion [1922-present] | ||
| 5th Battalion [1922-1941, 1961-present] | ||
| 6th Battalion [1940-1946, 1963-present] | ||
| 7th Battalion [1941-1942, 19uu-present] | ||
| 8th Battalion [1941-1942, 19uu-present] | ||
| 9th Battalion [1941-1946, 19uu-present] | ||
| 10th (Training) Battalion [1922-1943] | ||
| 13th Battalion [not formed] | ||
| 14th Battalion [1941-1946, 1963?-present] | ||
| 15th Battalion [1941-1946, 1963-present] | ||
| 16th Battalion [1942-1946, 1964-present] | ||
| 17th Battalion [1942-1946?, 1964?-present] | ||
| 18th Battalion [1941-1945, 1965-1983] | ||
| 19th Battalion [1954-present] | ||
| 20th Battalion [1954-1993] | ||
| 21st Battalion [19uu-present] | ||
| 22nd Battalion [19uu-present] | ||
| 23rd Battalion [19uu-present] | ||
| 24th Battalion [19uu-present] | ||
| 25th Battalion [1941-1941, 19uu-present] | ||
| 26th Battalion [1941-1946, 19uu-present] | ||
| 27th Battalion [19uu-present] | ||
| Machine Gun Battalion [1941-1942] | ||
| Territorials: | ||
| 11th (Territorial) Battalion [1921-1941, 19uu-19uu] | ||
| 12th (Territorial) Battalion [1940-1941] | ||
| [combined
battle honours of 2nd
Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry, 4th
Prince Albert Victor's Rajputs, 7th
Duke of Connaught's Own Rajputs, 8th
Rajputs, 11th Rajputs, and the
16thRajputs (The Lucknow Regiment),
plus:]
The Great War:1 Suez Canal, Egypt 1915-17, Basra, Kut al Amara 1915, Ctesiphon, Defence of Kut al Amara, Tigris 1916, Mesopotamia 1914-18, Persia 1915-18, Macedonia 1918, Aden, NW Frontier India 1915 '17 The Second World War: Hong Kong, South East Asia 1941, Defence of Alamein Line, El Alamein, North Africa 1940-43, Italy 1943-45, Razabil, Pt 551, Ngakedauk Pass, North Arakan, Kohima, Relief of Kohima, Tiddim Road, Taungtha, Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Meiktila, Rangoon Road, Sittang 1945, Burma 1942-45 Zoji La, Jammu and Kashmir 1947-48, Jammu and Kashmir 1965, Punjab 1965, Madhumati River, Khansama, Akhaura, Belonia, East Pakistan 1971, Khinsar, Sindh 1971 1. awarded 1926 for services of predecessor regiments [q.v.] |
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| 1924.09.09 | F.M. HM King Edward VIII | |
| 3rd Battalion: | ||
| 1924.09.09 | F.M. HRH Arthur William Patrick Albert, 1st Duke of Connaught & Strathearn, KG, KT, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, GCVO, GBE, VD, TD | |
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 | Naik Jadu Nath Singh, PVC, 1948, by Ed Haynes. | |
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| INS Rajput | 1990- | ||
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