113th Infantry

January 2020 January 2020 113th Infantry Rajputana infantry aclovett.jpg 300 A depiction of a subadar-major of the 113th Infantry (far left) amongst other British Indian Army troops. 1800–1922 British India 23px British India 23px Infantry Bombay Army (to 1895)Bombay Command Red; faced buff, 1882 yellow French Revolutionary WarsThird Anglo-Maratha WarBeni Boo Ali campaignIndian Rebellion of 1857World War I The 113th Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traces their origins to 1800, when they were raised as the 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry. The regiment's first action was in Egypt during the Battle of Alexandria part of the French Revolutionary Wars. They then took part in the Battle of Khadki in the Third Anglo-Maratha War. They were then used in the punitive expedition in the Beni Boo Ali campaign in 1821, against the pirates in Eastern Arabia and the Persian Gulf. They next took part in the central Indian campaign after the Indian Rebellion of 1857. During World War I they were attached to the 17th Indian Division for the Mesopotamia Campaign. They took part in the action at Fat-ha Gorge on the Little Zab and the Battle of Sharqat, in October 1918.warpath http://www.warpath.orbat.com/indian_divs/12_ind_div.htm dead https://web.archive.org/web/20080517084906/http://www.warpath.orbat.com/indian_divs/12_ind_div.htm 2008-05-17 After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.Sumner p.15 In 1922, the 113th Infantry became the 10th (Training) Battalion 4th Bombay Grenadiers. After independence they were one of the regiments allocated to the Indian Army. Predecessor names 1st Battalion, 7th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry - 1800 13th Bombay Native Infantry - 1824 13th Bombay Infantry - 1885 113th Infantry - 1903 References Sources Barthorp Michael Burn Jeffrey 1979 Indian infantry regiments 1860-1914 Osprey Publishing 0-85045-307-0 Rinaldi Richard A 2008 Order of Battle British Army 1914 Ravi Rikhye 978-0-9776072-8-0 Sharma Gautam 1990 Valour and sacrifice: famous regiments of the Indian Army Allied Publishers 81-7023-140-X Sumner Ian The Indian Army 1914-1947 2001 Osprey Publishing 1-84176-196-6 Moberly Frederick James History of the Great War Based on Official Documents The Campaign in Mesopotamia 1914–1918 I 1927 1923 HMSO London 772784341 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666 Category:British Indian Army infantry regiments Category:Bombay Presidency Category:Military units and formations established in 1800 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1922