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
|8th Rajputs (British) | - | 1 | - | - |
|Do. (Natives) | - | 1 | 4 | 59 |
|1st Gurkhas (British) | - | 1 | - | - |
|Do. (Natives) | - | 2 | 6 | 74 |
|2nd Gurkhas (British) | 1 | - | - | - |
|Do. (Natives) | - | 4 | 13 | 126 |
|9th Gurkhas (British) | - | 3 | - | - |
|Do. (Natives) | - | 1 | 3 | 30 |
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By noon the day was ours, but our loss had been enormous. It is
true that the Sikh army was in full retreat, and that sixty-seven
guns, chiefly of large calibre, were in our hands, but our
casualties amounted to close on 2,400 killed and wounded. The
little graveyard at Ferozepore bears testimony to the severity of
the fighting in the Sutlej Campaign. In no war in which Great
Britain has been engaged have the Staff suffered so severely,
and in none has the proportion of General Officers been so high,
Generals Sir Robert Sale, Sir Robert Dick, and Sir John McCaskill,
with Brigadier-Generals Taylor, Bolton, and Wallace, being killed,
and no less than eight Brigadiers wounded, in the short campaign.
The casualties amongst the British regiments were appalling. The
Governor-General had spared neither himself nor his Staff, every
single member of which was either killed or wounded.
PUNJAUB.
All regiments employed in the operations in the Punjab against the
Sikhs in the year 1848-49 were awarded this distinction. Some bear
it in addition to one of the three battle honours "Chillianwalla,"
"Mooltan," and "Goojerat," granted for this campaign. Others, which
were not present at any of these general actions, but which were
actually under fire, bear only the word "Punjaub." The following
regiments carry this word on their colours and appointments:
3rd Hussars.
9th Lancers.
14th Hussars.
Lincolns.
South Wales Borderers.
Gloucester.
Worcester.
Cornwall Light Infantry.
Shropshire Light Infantry.
King's Royal Rifles.
North Staffords.
Royal Munster Fusiliers.
Royal Dublin Fusiliers.
2nd Gardner's Horse.
5th Cavalry.
31st Lancers.
35th Scinde Horse.
36th Jacob's Horse.
Q.O. Corps of Guides.
1st P.W.O. Sap and Min.
2nd Sappers and Miners.
2nd Q.O. Light Infantry.
11th Rajputs.
51st Sikhs.
52nd Sikhs.
103rd Light Infantry.
104th Wellesley's Rifles.
109th Infantry.
119th Multan Regiment.
121st Pioneers.
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