Senior Tigers

Infobox Military Unit
unit_name=East Bengal Regiment


caption=Cap badge of the East Bengal Regiment
dates=15 February 1948-
country=Bangladesh
branch=Army
type=Infantry Battalion
role= Close with and Destroy the Enemy
size= Regular Infantry Battalion
current_commander= Lt Col Shakil
Second_in_command= Maj Imranuzzaman
Adjutant=Captain Khan Md Moinul hossen
Quarter Master= Captain Nisar Ahmed

garrison=Savar
colonel_of_the_regiment= General Moeen U Ahmed

Senior Tigers is the nom de plom of the 1st Battalion, The East Bengal Regiment of Bangladesh Army.

This is the oldest battalion of the East Bengal Regiment, the first of the two infantry regiments of Bangladesh Army. The unit was raised back in 1948 at Kurmitola in Dhaka by Major Gani from the pioneer companies in the then East Pakistan. Major Gani is the founder of the East Bengal Regiment, who was commissioned in 1942 in Indian Army. The first commanding officer of the Senior Tigers was a British Officer named Lieutenant Colonel V J E Patterson. The unit has taken part in 1962 Pak - India war, 1967 war, 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh, 1990 Kuwait war and lots and lots of internal and peacekeeping duties. The unit is proud recipient of the red pipein - a decoration for their galant contribution in the liberation war of Bangladesh. (It is actually "red piping", which is an imitation of the red piping worn on the collar by officers and men of three old regiments; the QVO Corps of Guides FF (Today the 10 Guides Cavalry FF and 2 FF Guides Infantry of the Pakistan Army), the 60th Rifles (Later the Royal Green Jackets) and 2nd Gurkhas FF - both of the British Army, who won their right to wear the Red Piping fighting together in Delhi during the war of 1857.)

It has also a Bir Shreshtho (The highest gallantry award of Bangladesh) and lots of other gallantry award recipients. The raising day of the unit i.e 15 February is also known as the Tigers Day in Bangladesh Army.