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REGIMENTS and CORPS
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How to find information about individuals who served in these regiments and corps | |||||||||||||
Units are listed
in Army List order at the end of the First World War and on the eve of the
reorganisation of 1922 which united battalions into regimental families
similar to the British Army scheme
of 1881. The Army List order followed a simple expedient of renumbering
the Bengal, Madras and Bombay armies in one numerical sequence in 1903.
Precedence on parade was a more complicated matter, determined in part by
date of raising. The 1903 numbering was achieved by preserving the Bengal
numbers, adding 50 to the old Punjab Frontier Force numbers, 60 to the Madras
numbers, and 100 to the Bombay numbers. This left some gaps in the numbering:
there were no 50th, 60th, and 100th regiments of infantry (but some numbering
gaps were filled during the First World War). In 1922 most of the cavalry
were amalgamated in pairs. The new regimental numbers are shown in the right
margin. Also in 1922 all the infantry battalions were grouped into regimental
families of about five battalions, and four regiments were removed from
the infantry of the line to create corps of pioneers. All the Pioneers were
disbanded in 1932. New 1922 battalion designations are shown in the right
margin (e.g. 1/1 Punjab means 1st Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment). Of the
twenty new resulting regiments, the 20th transferred to Burma in 1937 when
that country separated from India. For the line-up of the remaining 1922
cavalry and infantry see the
1947 Roll of Regiments.
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