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
Second Brigade--Brigadier Hervey: 10th Foot (Lincolns), 8th and
72nd Bengal Infantry.
Second Infantry Division--Major-General Sir Walter Gilbert, K.C.B.
First Brigade--Brigadier Mountain: 29th Foot (Worcesters), 30th
and 56th Bengal Infantry.
Second Brigade--Brigadier Godby: 2nd Bengal Europeans (2nd
Munsters), 31st (now the 2nd Q.O. Light Infantry), and the 70th
Bengal Infantry (now the 11th Rajputs).
Third Division: Brigadier-General Colin Campbell, C.B.
First Brigade--Brigadier Pennycuick: 24th Foot (South Wales
Borderers), 25th and 45th Bengal Infantry.
Second Brigade--Brigadier Hoggan: 61st Foot (2nd Gloucesters),
15th, 36th, and 46th Bengal Infantry.
Third Brigade--Brigadier Penny: 15th, 20th, and 69th Regiments
Bengal Infantry.
Artillery Division--Brigadier-General Tennant: Six batteries of
horse artillery, three field and two heavy batteries.
Ever since the advance from Sobraon we had retained a strong force
at Lahore, as well as at Ferozepore, but no success had attended
our efforts to keep down the numbers of the Sikh army; in fact, at
that time the Sikhs were a race of warriors, every man carrying
arms, and every second man had undergone military training. Lahore,
it is true, was no longer the headquarters of their army, but Lord
Gough soon found that the Sikh forces drawn up on the far side
of the Chenab were no whit inferior to those he had met and with
difficulty overthrown on the banks of the Sutlej. On November 23
the opening action of the campaign took place at Ramnuggur,[23]
where the 14th Hussars showed themselves worthy of the high
reputation they had made in the Peninsula; and on the 30th of the
month Sir Joseph Thackwell, in command of the cavalry, fought the
successful action of Sadoolapore.[24]
CHILLIANWALLAH, JANUARY 13, 1849.
This battle honour, which commemorates one of the hardest fights
ever waged in India, is borne by the following regiments:
3rd Hussars.
9th Lancers.
14th Hussars.
South Wales Borderers.
Gloucesters.
Worcesters.
Royal Munster Fusiliers.
2nd Q.O. Light Infantry.
11th Rajputs.
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