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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.
The Bihar Light Horse was a mounted infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised on 8 December 1862 as the Soubah Behar Mounted Rifles Volunteer Corps by indigo planters of the Tirhoot and Chapra districts in Bihar in the aftermath of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 .
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.
16th Light Cavalry; 17th Horse (Poona Horse) 17th/37th Lancers; 18th Cavalry (India) 18th/19th Lancers; 19th Lancers; 20th Lancers (British Indian Army) 20th Lancers (Pakistan) 20th/29th Horse; 21st Horse (Central India Horse) 21st/23rd Cavalry; 22nd/25th Cavalry; 26th/30th King George's Own Light Cavalry; 33rd/34th Cavalry; 35th/36th Cavalry ...
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3 e Régiment d'infanterie de marine (3rd Marine Infantry Regiment): Debout les morts (French for "The dead, get up") 12 e Régiment de cuirassiers (12th Cuirassier Regiment): In periculo ludunt (Latin for "amidst danger, they play") 2 e Régiment de dragons (2nd Dragoon Regiment): Da materiam splendescam (Latin for "give me a chance to shine")
The division was raised on 1 January 1942, at Jhansi in Central India.Its badge was a red fighting cock on a yellow circle. (The animal was chosen by Major General Reginald Savory, the division's first commander, as one which would offend neither the Moslem nor Hindu soldiers of the division.