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The Jat Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army, of which it is one of the longest-serving and most decorated regiments. [2] The regiment has won 19 Battle Honours between 1839 and 1947, [3] and post-independence it has won Five Battle Honours, including 3 Ashok Chakra, 2 Victoria Cross, 2 George Cross, 13 Kirti Chakra, 8 Mahavir Chakra, 3 Military Medal, 53 Shaurya Chakras, 39 Vir ...
In the Regiment of Artillery the battalion-sized units are referred to as regiments, a point of confusion on occasion. These units are equipped and named based on their type of equipment. There are two types of units. The majority are regiments that have weapons as their equipment, such as missiles, rockets, field guns, medium guns or mortars.
The 9th Jat Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1795 and again in 1922, after the Indian government reformed the army, moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.
Brigadier Desmond Hayde MVC (1926–2013) was an officer in the Indian Army.He was the commanding officer of the 3rd battalion of the Jat Regiment (3 Jat) in the Battle of Dograi during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
The Jat people, also spelt Jaat, Zuṭṭ and Jatt, [1] are an iranian tribe traditionally agricultural community in Iraq, Iran, Northern India and Pakistan. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ a ] [ b ] [ c ] Originally pastoralists in historical Zuṭṭistān (or Bilād al Zuṭṭ (Land of Jats)), was an eastern province of Persian empire, Situated in ...
Jat Sikh or Jatt Sikh (Gurmukhi: ਜੱਟ ਸਿੱਖ) is an ethnoreligious group, a subgroup of the Jat people whose traditional religion is Sikhism, originating from the Indian subcontinent. They are one of the dominant communities in the Punjab, India , owing to their large land holdings. [ 2 ]
The 65th Bengal Native Infantry 1824–1861, the 10th Bengal Native Infantry 1861–1885, the 10th Bengal Infantry 1885–1897, the 10th Jat Bengal Infantry 1897–1901, the 10th Jat Infantry 1901–1903 and finally in 1903 the 10th Jats. [2] During this time the regiment served in China in the Second Opium War and the Third Anglo-Burmese War.
The regiment was raised as 65 Mountain Regiment on 1 November 1962 at Belgaum, Karnataka.The first commanding officer was Lieutenant Colonel HR Roach, who was the pioneer of the famous Roach equipment, which had been used to fire the 25-pounder guns in arc of 360 degrees in a high angle.