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The Sikh Light Infantry is a light infantry regiment of the Indian Army. [1] The regiment is the successor unit to the 23rd , 32nd and 34th Royal Sikh Pioneers of the British Indian Army . The regiment recruits from the Sikh community of Himachal Pradesh , Punjab and Haryana states of India.
The Sikh Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army. It is the most highly decorated regiment of the Indian Army and in 1979, the 1st battalion was the Commonwealth 's most decorated battalion, with 245 pre-independence and 82 post-independence gallantry awards, when it was transformed into the 4th battalion, Mechanised Infantry Regiment .
The Battle of Saragarhi is considered one of the great battles in Sikh military history. [5] On 12 September 1897 a contingent of twenty-one soldiers from the 36th Sikhs regiment (now the 4th Battalion of the Sikh Regiment of Indian Army), led by Havildar Ishar Singh held off an Afghan attack of 10,000 men for several hours. All 21 Sikh ...
Sikh Regiment: 1846 Ramgarh Cantonment, Jharkhand ... Sikh Light Infantry: 1944 Fatehgarh, Uttar Pradesh "Deg teg fateh" ("Victory to charity and arms")
1 Infantry Regiments. 2 Armoured Corps. 3 Other Corps. 4 Related organisations. ... Sikh Light Infantry [6] Armoured Corps. Armoured Corps [nb 1] [12] 9 Horse (Deccan ...
The Nihangs had the Blue Flag, while different regiments of the army from different religions were allowed to have banners of their own. The regular regiments of different Sikh sardars had mostly blue-coloured flags and banners. The infantry regiments had flags with depictions of plants and cavalry regiments had depictions of horses on their flags.
In 1922, the 23rd Sikh Pioneers now became the 1st Battalion, 3rd Sikh Pioneers, they were renamed again in 1929, as the Corps of Sikh Pioneers, which was disbanded in 1933. During the Second World War the regiment was reformed and named the Sikh Light Infantry. This regiment was allocated to the new Indian Army after independence.
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