119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment)

January 2020 January 2020 119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment) Rajputana infantry aclovett.jpg 300 A depiction of a subedar of the 119th Infantry (third from left) amongst other British Indian Army troops in the full dress uniforms of 1911. 1817–1922 British India 23px British India 23px Infantry Bombay Army (to 1895)Bombay Command Red; faced deep yellow, 1882 yellow First Afghan WarSecond Anglo-Sikh WarSecond Afghan WarWorld War I The 119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment) was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment originated in 1817, when it was raised as the 1st Battalion, 10th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry. The regiment's first action was in the Battle of Ghazni in the First Afghan War. After Afghanistan it took part in the Siege of Multan in the Second Anglo-Sikh War. It returned to Afghanistan in the Second Afghan War and took part in the Siege of Multan. During World War I it was attached to the 6th (Poona) Division and served in the Mesopotamian campaign. It fought in the Battle of Basra, the Battle of Qurna, the Battle of Es Sinn before suffering a setback at the Battle of Ctesiphon, after which it withdrew to Kut. Trapped in the city in the Siege of Kut the regiment was forced to surrender after 147 days.Gardner 2004 307–326 A second battalion was raised from men on leave and reinforcements, and sent to Mesopotamia.Sharma 1990 158 After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single-battalion to multi-battalion regiments.Sumner 2001 15 In 1922 the 119th Infantry (The Molten Regiment) became the 2nd (Mooltan Battalion), The 9th Jat Regiment.Sharma 1990 159 After independence it was one of the regiments allocated to the Indian Army. Predecessor names 1st Battalion, 10th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry – 1817–1824 19th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry – 1824–1885 19th Bombay Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment) – 1885–1903 119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment) - 1903–1922Sharma 1990 157 2nd (Mooltan) Battalion, The 9th JAT Regiment - 1922–1947 thumb|A rare photograph of the Multan regiment, circa 1895. References Sources and further reading Barthorp Michael Burn Jeffrey 1979 Indian infantry regiments 1860-1914 Osprey Publishing 0-85045-307-0 Gardner Nikolas 2004 Sepoys and the Siege of Kut-Al-Amara, December 1915-April 1916 War in History 11 3 307–326 10.1191/0968344504wh302oa 159478598 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 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 Category:British Indian Army infantry regiments Category:Bombay Presidency Category:Military units and formations established in 1817 Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1922