110th Mahratta Light Infantry

yes January 2020 January 2020 Bombay Native Infantry 110th Mahratta Light Infantry Mahratta infantry lovett.png 300 Soldier of the regiment (second from left) with other Mahratta Infantry, painted in 1911. 1797–1922 British India 23px British India 23px Infantry Bombay Army (to 1895)Bombay Command Red; faced black Third Anglo-Mysore WarFourth Anglo-Mysore WarBeni Boo Ali campaignFirst Anglo-Afghan WarSecond Anglo-Sikh WarSecond Opium WarSecond Anglo-Afghan WarSecond Anglo-Burmese WarWorld War I The 110th Mahratta Light Infantry were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traces their origins to 1797, when they were raised as the 2nd Battalion, 5th (Travancore) Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry. The regiments first saw action during the Mysore wars being involved on the Third Anglo-Mysore War and the Battle of Seedaseer and the Battle of Seringapatam in the Fourth Anglo-Mysore 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. The regiment was involved in the Siege of Kahun next during the First Afghan War. The annexation of the Punjab was next during the Second Anglo-Sikh War. Their next action was in China in the Second Opium War. They returned to Afghanistan again to participate in the Second Afghan War; their last conflict in the 19th century was the annexation of Burma in the Second Burmese War. In World War I the regiment was attached to the 6th (Poona) Division in the Mesopotamian campaign. After a string of earlier successes, the 6th Division was delivered a setback at the Battle of Ctesiphon and forced to withdraw back to Kut. The Siege of Kut began and after a lengthy siege surrendered in April 1916.See Gardner, Nikolas. 2004 'Sepoys and the Siege of Kut-Al-Amara, December 1915-April 1916', War in History (journal) 11(3), pp. 307-326 After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multibattalion regiments.Sumner p.15 In 1922, the 110th Mahratta Light Infantry became the 3rd Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry. After independence they were one of the regiments allocated to the Indian Army. Predecessor names 2nd Battalion, 5th (Travancore) Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry - 1797 10th Bombay Native Infantry - 1818 10th Bombay Native (Light) Infantry - 1871 10th Regiment of Bombay (Light) Infantry - 1885 10th Bombay Light Infantry - 1901 10th Mahratta Light Infantry 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:Military units and formations established in 1797 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1922 Category:Bombay Presidency