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Somebody has worked very hard on these two lists and deserves our grateful thanks. Minor quibbles regarding spellings, but not enough to interfere (eg. 42nd Regt.: would have suggested 'Devli' rather than 'Deoli', etc.).
The only real issue was the listing of the Guides Infantry under the Auxiliary list, rather than under the Punjab Command list. Presumably, because it does not have a number. The Guides Infantry was a full-time regiment of Indian troops, whereas the Auxiliaries were European (or probably Anglo-Indian, in the case of the railway units) 'Territorials': "box-wallahs" (the contemporary, and rather condescending, term for office-workers) and planters, such as the Calcutta Light Horse, as portrayed - in his own inimitable manner, by Roger Moore. If the Auxiliaries were largely a social club, the Guides were a very serious unit, with a formidable reputation, at least since the great forced-march of 1857.
The Punjab Irregular Force was originally set up as a Provincial corps (cf.: the Frontier Corps and the Assam Rifles, etc.) on call to the Governor of the Punjab, but became regular troops as the Punjab Frontier Force, a part of the Bengal Army, and then a Command on a par with the three Presidency Commands and hence integrated on the unified list immediately after Bengal, requiring the other two Commands to renumber their Presidency Army numbers. Protozoon ( talk) 00:17, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
There is no 17th cavalry regiment and no 24th cavalry regiment - is that correct? Opera hat ( talk) 10:26, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
This list isn't even close to accurate. There were units created in 1917 on the main list. And why the list should include wartime units at all is unclear. A 1903 list should reflect the actual units of the Indian Army in 1903. 70.234.223.93 ( talk) 16:42, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
For the main articles, we clearly do need to distinguish between the modern Indian Army and the army of British India, but I don't see any need for "British" in the name of this list. Does anyone have any comments on " List of regiments of the Indian Army (1903)" as a name? Xn4 ( talk) 01:50, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
It is commendable that you want to link the pages of Units to the Modern ones. However, please do not redirect if the link is not a redlink. Someone has put an effort to create an article under that name and that is the relevant one. However, I support if you redirect a redlink to its successor regiment's page and in addition, write some lines about the History which makes the link relevant to this list. -- Vinay84 ( talk) 08:45, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
Since the logic of classification is commands,Hyderabad should be part of Madras command.and Gurkha regiments should be part of respective commands.Propose mergers accordingly -- Vinay84 ( talk) 12:10, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
There was no Auxiliary Force as such before 1920, when the Auxiliary Force, India, was created from the Indian Defence Force, which was itself created in 1917 from the various Indian Volunteer Corps.
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11:10, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
The Frontier Corps and the Frontier Constabulary were part of the Civil Administration, and under the authority of the Chief Commisioner of the NWFP. The Corps was lead by Indian Army officers on secondment, but only in wartime did it come under Army Command.
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FwdObserver (
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01:09, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
The Sistan Levy Corps was employed to guard the Line of Communication of the Sistan Force maintaining the East Persia Cordon during WWI. I have not found any earlier reference to it and i very much dout that it existed in 1903.-- FwdObserver ( talk) 21:18, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
Your new subdivision of segregating Gurkha regiments is incorrect. They are former Bengal/Punjab Regiments. No special command or presidency existed in which the Gurkhas were segregated from other infantry. The Gurkhas were treated exactly like any other infantry regiment and were part of Bengal/Punjab forces. Please revert. AshLin ( talk) 07:49, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
-- Vinay84 ( talk) 08:38, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
AshLin can you try find out from any regimental source you have .Any published reports etc? -- Vinay84 ( talk) 03:48, 13 October 2009 (UTC).
Does F.W. Perry really cover 1903 in The Commonwealth Armies: Manpower and Organization in Two World Wars (War, Armed Forces & Society) ???
Or is this listed as a reference because the statistics and other details in the second paragraph are just copied from
Indian Army during World War I with '1914' changed to '1903'.
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