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In the Indian Army of my day this was the 10th Baluch Regiment which, on the outbreak of war in 1939, consisted of five active battalions (1st to 5th) and a training battalion (10th). During the war a further eight active service battalions were raised (6th to 9th and 14th to 17th) and in addition three Garrison Battalions and four Garrison Companies, the latter providing security and administrative personnel at schools of instruction, GHQ Delhi and military prisons. In May The 10th Training Battalion at Karachi was redesignated the Baluch Regimental Centre (BRC) . Most of this history is about World War II and the part played by the Regiment, whose battalions served in Waziristan (NW Frontier), Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, N Africa, Eritrea, Sicily, Italy Greece, Malaya, Singapore and Burma, winning two VCs and suffering a total of 6,371 casualties of whom 763 were killed and a further 239 died due to sickness etc. Of the total, 92 were officers holding the King s Commission and 168 the Viceroy s Commission (Jemadar, Subedar and Subedar Major). The operations and battles are well described and supported by plenty of maps and a number of interesting photos. But of particular interest is the part dealing with post-war, the birth of Pakistan, partition and the appalling the massacres of refugees and the break-up of the old Indian Army. The author, who was commissioned in the Baloch Regiment in 1958 and commanded its 17th Battalion, is severely critical of the British government, especially Mountbatten whom he accuses of bias towards India. And then the Kashmir situation which led to war between the two countries in 1947-48 and here the part played by Mountbatten is savaged: The situation had become so intolerable that the Supreme Commander, Field Marshal Auchinleck, resigned in protest against Mountbatten s disgusting partiality. There are a number of most useful appendices listing campaigns and Battle Honours (1939-45), honours and awards, casualty figures in detail, succession of COs of all the battalions, the reconstituted Baloch Regiment-1956 and more. There are extensive footnotes and an impressive bibliography and an index.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 146. Chapters: Baloch Regiment, The Garhwal Rifles, Rajput Regiment, Sikh Light Infantry, 10th Princess Mary's Own Gurkha Rifles, Parachute Regiment, Guides Infantry, 1 Gorkha Rifles, Sikh Regiment, 1st Punjab Regiment, 4th Punjab Infantry Regiment, 3 Gorkha Rifles, Jat Regiment, 6th Queen Elizabeth's Own Gurkha Rifles, 125th Napier's Rifles, 101st Grenadiers, Maratha Light Infantry, 4 Gorkha Rifles, 8 Gorkha Rifles, 5 Gorkha Rifles, 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis, 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry, 127th Baluch Light Infantry, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles, Assam Regiment, 124th Duchess of Connaught's Own Baluchistan Infantry, 89th Punjabis, Mahar Regiment, 62nd Punjabis, The Madras Regiment, 55th Coke's Rifles, Rajputana Rifles, 130th Baluchis, 92nd Punjabis, 51st Sikhs, 66th Punjabis, 76th Punjabis, 91st Punjabis, 93rd Burma Infantry, 90th Punjabis, 52nd Sikhs, 59th Scinde Rifles, 53rd Sikhs, 54th Sikhs, 106th Hazara Pioneers, 84th Punjabis, 126th Baluchistan Infantry, 56th Punjabi Rifles, Bihar Regiment, 82nd Punjabis, 5th Light Infantry, 58th Vaughan's Rifles, Gorkha regiments, Dogra Regiment, 19th Punjabis, 39th Garhwal Rifles, 7th Duke of Edinburgh's Own Gurkha Rifles, 40th Pathans, 22nd Punjabis, 21st Punjabis, 2nd Queen Victoria's Own Rajput Light Infantry, 9 Gorkha Rifles, 27th Punjabis, 26th Punjabis, 25th Punjabis, 15th Ludhiana Sikhs, 28th Punjabis, 7th Rajput Regiment, 63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry, 29th Punjabis, 1st Brahmans, 123rd Outram's Rifles, 104th Wellesley's Rifles, 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, 103rd Mahratta Light Infantry, 102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers, 69th Punjabis, 19th Hyderabad Regiment, 13th Rajputs, 99th Deccan Infantry, 12th Pioneers, 105th Mahratta Light Infantry, 119th Infantry, 94th Russell's Infantry, 128th Pioneers, 18th Royal Garhwal Rifles, 4th Bombay...
Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde is a first-hand account of a journey taken in 1810-11 through parts of present-day India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq. The author, Henry Pottinger (1789-1856), was a lieutenant in the East India Company who, along with a friend and fellow officer, Captain Charles Christie, volunteered to undertake a mission to the region between India and Persia (present-day Iran), about which the East India Company at that time had little knowledge. The two men journeyed from Bombay (present-day Mumbai) to Sind (present-day southeast Pakistan) from where, disguised as Indians, they traveled overland to Kalat. They were quickly recognized as Europeans, but they were able to continue their journey to Nushki, near the present-day border between Afghanistan and Pakistan. There the men separated. Pottinger continued westward to Persia, through Kerman to Shiraz and Isfahan. Christie traveled north from Nushki into Afghanistan, through Helmand to Herat and from there into Persia to Yazd and Isfahan, where he rejoined Pottinger. Christie was directed to remain in Persia, where in 1812 he was killed in a Russian attack. Pottinger returned to Bombay via Baghdad and Basra. The book is in two parts. The first is a detailed account of Pottinger's journey, with observations on climate, terrain, soil, plants and animals, peoples and tribes, customs, religion, and popular beliefs. The second is an introduction to the history and geography of the provinces of Baluchistan and Sind. An appendix reproduces part of the journal kept by Christie on his travels through Afghanistan. The book contains one colored illustration at the front and a large fold-out map after the end of the text. Pottinger went on to have a distinguished career with the East India Company and the British government. In April 1843 he was appointed the first British governor of Hong Kong.
A collection of autobiographical stories from an officer in the British Indian Army during World War II. John Randle served with the greatly respected Baluch Regiment of the former Indian Army right through the fiercely fought Burma Campaign, winning a Military Cross, yet on VJ Day he was only some sixty miles from where had started out nearly four years before. Unlike other conventional war memoirs, this book comprises a gratifying number of self-contained stories drawn from the author’s experiences and memories. Some are long, other mere vignettes; some are moving and serious, others are light-hearted even humorous. Some cover hard-won victories and success, others defeats and reversal; some describe acts of great valor, others incidents reflecting human frailties. All however, are worth reading and give a very accurate picture of war at its bitterest, when men are drawn together and individuals are under that most demanding microscope of their fellow comrades-in-arms.