List of regiments of the British Indian Army (1922)

List of regiments of the British Indian Army (1922)

This is a list of regiments of the British Indian Army as it was following the reorganisation of the Indian Armed Forces in 1922.

Cavalry

Regular

*Governor General's Bodyguard
*Governor General's Bodyguard, Madras
*Governor General's Bodyguard, Bombay
*Governor General's Bodyguard, Bengal
*1st Duke of York's Own Lancers (Skinner's Horse)
*2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse)
*3rd Cavalry
*4th Duke of Cambridge's Own Hodson's Horse
*5th King Edward's Own Probyn's Horse
*6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (Watson's Horse)
*7th Light Cavalry
*8th King George's Own Light Cavalry
*9th Royal Deccan Horse
*10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force)
*11th Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force)
*12th Cavalry (Frontier Force)
*13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers
*14th Prince of Wales's Own Scinde Horse
*15th Lancers
*16th Light Cavalry
*17th Queen Victoria's Own Poona Horse
*18th King Edward's Own Cavalry
*18th/19th Lancers
*20th Lancers
*38th/39th King George's Own Light Cavalry - (became The Central India Horse (21st King George V's Own Horse) in 1923)

Auxiliary

*The Assam Valley Light Horse
*The Bihar Light Horse
*The Bombay Light Horse
*The Calcutta Light Horse
*The Chota Nagpur Regiment
*The Punjab Light Horse
*The Southern Provinces Mounted Rifles
*The Surma Valley Light Horse
*The United Provinces Horse (Northern Regiment)
*The United Provinces Horse (Southern Regiment)

Infantry

Regular

*1st Punjab Regiment
*2nd Punjab Regiment
*3rd Madras Regiment
*4th Bombay Grenadiers
*5th Mahratta Light Infantry
*6th Rajputana Rifles
*7th Rajput Regiment
*8th Punjab Regiment
*9th Jat Regiment
*10th Baluch Regiment
*11th Sikh Regiment
*12th Frontier Force Regiment
*13th Frontier Force Rifles
*14th Punjab Regiment
*15th Punjab Regiment
*16th Punjab Regiment
*17th Dogra Regiment
*18th Royal Garhwal Rifles
*19th Hyderabad Regiment
*20th Burma Rifles
*1st King George V's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
*2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
*3rd Queen Alexandra's Own Gurkha Rifles
*4th Gurkha Rifles - (became 4th Prince of Wales's Own Gurkha Rifles in 1924)
*5th Royal Gurkha Rifles (Frontier Force)
*6th Gurkha Rifles
*7th Gurkha Rifles
*8th Gurkha Rifles
*9th Gurkha Rifles
*10th Gurkha Rifles

Auxiliary Force, India

*The Allahabad Rifles
*The Assam Bengal Railway Battalion
*The Baluchistan Volunteer Rifle Corps
*The Bangalore Contingent
*The Bengal & North West Railway Battalion
*The Bengal Nagpur Railway Battalion
*The Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Regiment
*The Bombay Volunteer Rifles Corps
*The Burma Railways Battalion
*The Calcutta and Presidency Battalion
*The Calcutta Presidency Battalion
*The Calcutta Scottish
*The Cawnpore Rifles
*The Coorg and Mysore Company
*The Delhi Contingent
*The East Coast Battalion
*The East Indian Railway Regiment
*The Eastern Bengal Company
*The Eastern Bengal Railway Battalion
*The Great Indian Peninsula Railway Regiment
*The Hyderabad Rifles
*The Lucknow Rifles
*The Lucknow Volunteer Rifles
*The Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway Rifles
*The Madras Guards
*The Mussourie Battalion
*The Nagpur Rifles
*The Naini Tal Volunteer Rifles
*The Nilgiri Malabar Battalion
*The Northern Bengal Mounted Rifles
*The North Western Railway Battalion
*The Oudh and Rohilkhand Railway Battalion
*The Poona Rifles
*The Punjab Rifles
*The Rangoon Battalion
*The Simla Rifles
*The Sind Rifles
*The South Indian Railway Battalion
*The Tenasserim Battalion
*The Upper Burma Battalion

Indian Territorial Force

*University Training Corps
*Urban Infantry

The Frontier Corps

*The Gilgit Scouts
*The Chitral Scouts
*The Kurram Militia
*The Tochi Scouts
*The South Waziristan Scouts
*The Zhob Militia
*The Pishin Scouts (1946-47)

Military Police and North-East Frontier units

*The Malabar Special Police
*Burma Military Police
*The Eastern Frontier Rifles, IMP
*Assam Rifles

ervices

*The Army Bearer Corps
*The Army Clothing Department
*The Army Hospital Corps
*The Army Remount Department
*The Army Veteirary
*The Indian Medical Department
*The Indian Ordinance Department
*The Military Farms Department
*Supply and Transport Corps

upport Arms

*Mountain Artillery
*1st King George V's Own Bengal Sappers and Miners (numeral omitted 1923)
*2nd Queen Victoria's Own Madras Sappers and Miners (numeral omitted 1923)
*3rd Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners (numeral omitted 1923)
*4th Burma Sappers and Miners (numeral omitted 1923)
*1st Madras Pioneers
*2nd Bombay Pioneers
*3rd Sikh Pioneers
*4th Hazara Pioneers

Indian State Forces

*(see separately)

Wartime Units and others formed between 1922 and 1947

*Field Artillery

*Women's Army Corps (India)

*42nd Cavalry
*43rd Cavalry
*44th Cavalry
*45th Cavalry
*46th Cavalry
*47th Cavalry
*48th Cavalry
*Indian Long-Range Squadron

*21st Regiment
*22nd Regiment
*23rd Regiment
*24th Regiment
*25th Ajmer Regiment
*Kumaon Rifles
*Indian Parachute Regiment

*Indian Ordnance and Mechanical Engineers

ee also

*List of Regiments of the British Indian Army (1903)
* [http://www.remuseum.org.uk/corpshistory/rem_corps_part10.htm Royal Engineers Museum] Indian Sappers (1740-1947)


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