108th Infantry

yes January 2020 January 2020 108th Infantry 108th indian.png 150px A 1911 painting of a member of the regiment 1768–1922 British India 23px Army Infantry Bombay Army (to 1895)Bombay Command Red; faced white Uniform Third Anglo-Mysore WarBattle of HyderabadSecond Afghan WarWorld War I 1922 The 108th Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traces their origins to 1768, when they were raised as the 1st Battalion, Bombay Sepoys. The regiments first action was during the Mysore Campaign in the Third Anglo-Mysore War. The Battle of Hyderabad followed in 1843, then the Second Afghan War. During World War I they remained in India with the 9th (Secunderabad) Division on training and internal security duties. 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 108th Infantry became the 3rd Battalion 4th Bombay Grenadiers. After independence they were one of the regiments allocated to the Indian Army. Predecessor names 1st Battalion, Bombay Sepoys - 1768 2nd Battalion, 4th Bombay Native Infantry - 1796 8th Bombay Native Infantry - 1824 8th Bombay Infantry - 1885 108th Infantry - 1903 References 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 1768 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1922 Category:1768 establishments in the British Empire