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The Bihar Regiment is an Indian Army infantry regiment. [3] It traces its origins back to the British Indian Army . [ 4 ] The Bihar Regiment was formed in 1941 by regularising the 11th (Territorial) Battalion, the 19th Hyderabad Regiment, and raising new battalions.
Units of the Regiment of Artillery that have equipment other than weapons are listed below. These units mainly have Surveillance and Target Acquisition (SATA) equipment, Surveillance and target acquisition is a military role assigned to units and/or their equipment.
The Indian Army has four types of regiments based on class composition [7] [8] - . Single Class- These regiments have troops from a single class, e.g. Dogra Regiment.This group also includes three scout units (highlighted in green), which are affiliated with an existing regiment.
Danapur Cantonment, located on the outskirts of Patna, is the second oldest cantonment in India, after Barrackpur Cantonment, West Bengal. [3] Danapur is the regimental centre of the Bihar Regiment (BRC). It was earlier called Bankipore Cantonment.
Captain Gurjinder Singh Suri , (04 July 1974 – 09 November 1999) was an Indian Army officer of 12 Battalion, Bihar Regiment who was posthumously awarded the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second highest gallantry award, for exemplary valor in combat during a gunbattle in the Faulad post attack in 1999.Singh was killed in a gun battle in the Gulmarg ...
The Commander-in-Chief of India, Lord Kitchener carried out a reform of the British Indian Army in 1903. These reforms were intended to improve the Army, which had been formed from the separate Bengal, Bombay and Madras presidency armies in 1895 to be replaced by the Bengal, Bombay, Madras and Punjab commands.
Colonel Bikkumalla Santosh Babu MVC (13 February 1983 – 15 June 2020) [3] was an Indian Army officer and the commanding officer of 16 Bihar Regiment.He was killed in action (KIA) during the 2020 China–India skirmishes, the first Indian Armed Forces commissioned officer since 1967 and among the first Indian soldiers to have been KIA against the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) since 1975.
Major Mariappan Saravanan (10 August 1972 – 29 May 1999), was an officer in the prestigious Bihar Regiment of the Indian Army who was martyred during the Kargil War.He was killed in hand-to-hand combat with intruders after killing four intruders in the Batalik area of Kargil Sector on 29 May 1999, along with 33 soldiers and four other officers.