Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VIINorman, Charles Boswell
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Battle Honours of the British Army: From Tangier, 1662, to the Commencement of the Reign of King Edward VII
Norman, Charles Boswell
Great Britain -- History, Military; Great Britain. Army -- History
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HINDOOSTAN.
This honour has been conferred on the following regiments for their
gallant services in the earlier campaigns which consolidated our
power in our great Indian dependency:
8th Hussars.
Leicesters.
Worcesters.
Oxford Light Infantry.
Highland Light Infantry.
Seaforth Highlanders.
West Riding Regiment.
_8th Hussars._--In the month of March, 1825, the Royal Irish
Hussars were authorized to add the harp as well as the battle
honours "Laswarree" and "Hindoostan" to their colours and
appointments. The 8th had been present with Lord Lake in his
campaign against the Mahrattas; they had served against the
Rohillas in Bundulcund, and were with Rollo Gillespie in the
gallant attack on the Gurkha fort of Kalunga, where a detachment of
100 dismounted men lost half its numbers. They had done right good
work at the Siege of Hattrass, and assisted in many long-forgotten
but arduous campaigns, in which our troops were so constantly
engaged during the earlier years of the foundation of the Indian
Empire.
_17th (Leicestershire Regiment)._--The honour was bestowed on the
old 17th Foot on June 25, 1825, in recognition of the services of
the regiment between the years 1804 and 1823. The 17th had been
with Wolfe at Louisburg, but had missed the hard fighting in the
Peninsula. In the course of its twenty years' Indian service it
did right good work in several of those little-known campaigns
in which there was hard work and little glory. At the storming
of the fort at Chumar, in Bundulcund, it lost 2 officers and 56
men killed and wounded. In the following year (October, 1807), at
the operations in connection with the reduction of the fort of
Kamounah, near Allyghur, it lost no less than 4 officers and 47 men
killed, 5 officers and 95 men wounded. In the Gurkha War of 1814
its casualties amounted to 74 men killed and wounded, and in the
year 1817 it again suffered heavily at the capture of Jubbulpore.
_36th (Worcestershire Regiment)._--This distinguished corps,
which already had the battle honour "Mysore" emblazoned on its
colours, was authorized in October, 1835, to add the battle honour
"Hindoostan" in recognition of its services from 1790 to 1793. In
those three years it had lost 4 officers and 65 men in the action
of Sattimungulum; it had been present at the storming of Bangalore,
Nundy Droog, Pondicherry, and Seringapatam (1792); and in the
course of the latter operations it had lost 5 officers and 60 men
killed and wounded.
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