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2nd Bombay Grenadiers of the Indian Army in Hampton Court Camp on the occasion of the Coronation of King Edward VII, August 1902. The Grenadiers is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army, formerly part of the Bombay Army and later the pre-independence British Indian Army, when the regiment was known as the 4th Bombay Grenadiers.
After the outbreak of the Second Afghan War, the Bombay Grenadiers found itself initially employed initially in the vicinity of the Bolan Pass.It was not until March 1880 that the battalion, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Horace Anderson, entered Afghanistan as an element of a British-Indian column intent on quelling a revolt by Ayub Khan, the ruler of Herat, who sought to depose the British ...
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 4th Bombay Grenadiers (May 1944) [19] Colonel 1st Punjab Regiment (1947) [ 16 ] Field Marshal Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck ( / ˌ ɒ x ɪ n ˈ l ɛ k / OKH -in- LEK ) GCB , GCIE , CSI , DSO , OBE (21 June 1884 – 23 March 1981), was a British Indian Army commander who saw active service during the world wars .
The 102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It could trace its origins to 1796, when it was raised as the 13th Battalion, Bombay Native Infantry. It could trace its origins to 1796, when it was raised as the 13th Battalion, Bombay Native Infantry.
The regiment traces their origins to 1768, when they were raised as the 1st Battalion, Bombay Sepoys. The regiments first action was during the Mysore Campaign in the Third Anglo-Mysore War . The Battle of Hyderabad followed in 1843, then the Second Afghan War .
Henn and 14 of his men afterwards joined some remnants of the 66th Foot and Bombay Grenadiers in a small enclosure at a garden in a place called Khig where a determined last stand was made. Though the Afghans shot them down one by one, they fired steadily until only eleven of their number (two officers and nine other ranks) [ 5 ] were left, and ...
2003 postal stamp to commemorate '225 years of 2nd Battalion of the Guards (1 Grenadiers)'. 1998 postal stamp to mark the bicentenary of 4th Battalion of the Guards (former 1st battalion, 7th Rajput) The contingent of the 10th Battalion, Brigade of the Guards on BMP-2 passes through the Rajpath, on the occasion of the 68th Republic Day Parade, 2017