117th Mahrattas

January 2020 January 2020 117th Mahrattas 117th Mahrattas at a fort, 1909.jpg 300px 117th Mahrattas at a fort in the North West Frontier, India, 1909. 1800–1922 British India 23px British India 23px Infantry Bombay Army (to 1895)Bombay Command Red; faced pale yellow, 1882 yellow World War I The 117th Mahrattas were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. The regiment traces their origins to 1800, when they were raised as the Bombay Fencible Regiment. During World War I the regiment was attached to the 6th (Poona) Division, served in the Mesopotamian campaign, and delivered a setback at the Battle of Ctesiphon in November 1915. They were forced to withdraw back to Kut, and forced to surrender after the Siege of Kut.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 multi-battalion regiments.Sumner p. 15 In 1922, the 117th Mahrattas became the 5th Battalion 5th Mahratta Light Infantry. After independence they were one of the regiments allocated to the Indian Army. Predecessor names Bombay Fencible Regiment - 1800 1st Battalion, 9th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry - 1803 17th Bombay Native Infantry - 1824 17th Bombay Infantry - 1885 117th Matrattas - 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