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Order of Battle of the Indian Army Corps in France, 1914-15 Appendix I: Order of Battle of The Indian Army Corps in France, 1914-15 Note: This order of battle represents the Indian Corps as it was from the end of 1914 to the end of 1915. From early 1916, the two infantry divisions served in Mesopotamia. In the autumn of 1914, the cavalry were organized as a single division, consisting of the Ambala, Lucknow and Secunderabad Cavalry Brigades. Units of the British Army are indicated with an asterisk. 3rd (LAHORE) INFANTRY DIVISION 7th (Ferozepore) Brigade 1st and 2nd Connaught Rangers (one unit)* 4th London (Territorials)* 9th Bhopal Infantryl 57th Rifles (Frontier Force) 89th Punjabis2 129th Baluchis 8th (Jullundur) Brigade 1st Manchesters * 4th Suffolks (Territorials)* 40th Pathans3 47th Sikhs 59th Rifles (Frontier Force) 9th (Sirhind) Brigade 1st Highland Light Infantry* 4th Liverpool Regiment (Special Reserve)* 15th Sikhs4 1Ilst Gurkhas 1I4th Gurkhas 359 360 Indian Voices of the Great War Divisional Troops 15th Lancers 34th Sikh Pioneers 20th and 21st Companies, Sappers and Miners Artillery 5th, 11th and 18th Brigades, RFA * 109th Heavy Battery* 7th (MEERUT) INFANTRY DIVISION 19th (Dehra Dun) Brigade 1st Seaforth Highlanders * 1I9th Gurkhas 1I2nd Gurkhas 6th Jats 20th (Garhwal) Brigade 2nd Leicesters * 3rd London (Territorials) * 1I39th Garhwal Rifles 2/39th Garhwal Rifles5 2/3rd Gurkhas 2/8th Gurkhas6 21st (Bareilly) Brigade 2nd Black Watch * 4th Black Watch (Territorials)* 41 st Dogras 7 58th Rifles 69th Punjabis8 I 25th Rifles9 Divisional Troops 4th Cavalry 107th Pioneers 3rd and 4th Companies, Sappers and Miners Artillery 4th, 9th and 13th Brigades, RFA * I 10th Heavy Battery* Appendix I 361 1st INDIAN CAVALRY DIVISION 2nd (Sialkot) Cavalry Brigade 17th Lancers· 6th King Edward's Own Cavalry 19th Lancers (Fane's Horse) Q Battery, RHA· 3rd (Ambala) Cavalry Brigade 8th Hussars· 9th Hodson's Horse 30th Lancers (Gordon's Horse) A Battery, RHA· 4th (Lucknow) Cavalry Brigade 1st (King's) Dragoon Guards· 29th Lancers (Deccan Horse) 36th Jacob's Horse (Scinde Horse) Jodhpur Lancers (Indian States' Forces) U Battery, RHA· 2nd INDIAN CAVALRY DIVISION 5th (Mhow) Cavalry Brigade 6th Inniskilling Dragoons· 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) 38th King George's Own Central India Horse Y Battery, RHA· 7th (Meerut) Cavalry Brigade 13th Hussars' 3rd Skinner's Horse 18th King George's Own Lancers V Battery, RHA * 9th (Secunderabad) Cavalry Brigade 7th Dragoon Guards' 20th Deccan Horse 34th Prince Albert Victor's Own Poona Horse N Battery, RHA· 362 Indian Voices of the Great War NOTES 1. Left for Egypt, June 1915. 2. From June 1915. 3. Arrived from China, Apri11915. 4. Left France, August 1915. 5. The two Garhwali battalions were later combined into a single unit. 6. Originally Bareilly Brigade. 7. Left France, August 1915. 8. From June 1915. 9. Originally Sirhind Brigade; left for Egypt, June 1915. Appendix II: Composition of Indian Regiments Serving in France, 1914-15 INFANTRY REGIMENTS Regiment Regimental Composition Centre (8 companies) 6th Jat Light Infantry Meerut 8 Jats 9th Bhopal Infantry none 2 Sikhs; 2 Rajputs; 2 Brahmans; 2 Muslims 15th Ludhiana Sikhs Multan 8 Sikhs 34th Sikh Pioneers Ambala 8 Mazbi and Ramdasia Sikhs 39th Garhwal Rifles Lansdowne 8 Garhwalis 40th Pathans Sialkot 2 Orakzais; 1 Afridis; 1 Yusufzais; 2 Dogras; 2 Punjabi Muslims 41st Dogras Rawalpindi 8 Dogras 47th Sikhs Rawalpindi 8 Sikhs 57th Wilde's Rifles Dera Ismail 2 Sikhs; 2 Dogras; (Frontier Force) Khan 2 Punjabi Muslims; 2 Pathans 58th Vaughan's Dera Ismail 3 Sikhs; 1 Dogras; Rifles (Frontier Force) Khan 3 Pathans; 1 Punjabi Muslims 59th Scinde Rifles Kohat 3 Pathans; 2 Sikhs; (Frontier Force) 1 Punjabi Muslims; 2 Dogras 89th Punjabis Meiktila 3 Sikhs; 1 Brahmans; 1 Rajputs; 3 Punjabi Muslims 107th Pioneers Kirkee 2 Pathans; 2 Sikhs; 2 Deccani Mahrattas; 2 Rajputana Muslims 125th Napier's Nasirabad 4 Rajputana Jats; Rifles 2 Rajputana Rajputs; 2 Punjabi Muslims 363 364 Indian Voices of the Great War I 29th Duke of Karachi 2 Punjabi Muslims; 3 Mahsuds; Connaught's Own 3 Other Pathans Baluchis CAVALRY REGIMENTS Regiment Composition (4 squadrons) 2nd Lancers I Sikhs; I Rajputs; I Jats; (Gardner's Horse) I Hindustani Muslims 3rd Skinner's Horse I Sikhs; I Jats; I Rajputs; I Muslim Rajputs 4th Cavalry I Rajput Muslims; I Sikhs; I Hindustani Muslims; I Jats 6th King Edward's I Jat Sikhs; I Jats; Own Cavalry I non-Jat Sikhs; I Hindustani Muslims 9th Hodson's Horse Yz Sikhs; Yz Dogras; lYz Punjabi Muslims; IYz Pathans 15th Lancers 4 Multani Pathans and Muslims (Cureton's Multanis) of the Dejarat and Cis-Indus 17th Cavalry 2 Punjabi Muslims; 2 Pathans 18th King George's 3 Punjabi Muslims; Own Lancers I Sikhs 19th Lancers IYz Sikhs; Yz Dogras; (Fane's Horse) I Punjabi Muslims; 1 Pathans 20th Deccan Horse 1 Sikhs; 1 Jats; 2 Deccani Muslims 29th Lancers 2 Jats; 1 Sikhs; (Deccan Horse) 1 Deccani Muslims 30th Lancers 2 Sikhs; 1 Jats; (Gordon's Horse) 1 Hindustani Muslims 34th Prince Albert's 2 Rathore Rajputs; Own Poona Horse 1 Kaimkhanis; 1 Punjabi Muslims Appendix II 365 36th Jacob's Horse 2 Derajat Muslims and Baluchis; 1 Pathans; 1 Sikhs 38th King George's Own 2 Sikhs; 1 Pathans; Central India Horse 1 Muslim Rajputs 39th King George's Own 2 Sikhs; 1 Muslim Rajputs; Central India Horse 1 Punjabi Muslims GURKHA REGIMENTS Regiment Regimental centre 1st King George's Own Gurkha Rifles Dharmsala (The Malaun Regiment) 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles DehraDun (The Sirmoor Rifles) 4th Gurkha Rifles Baldoh 8th Gurkha Rifles Shillong 9th Gurkha Rifles DehraDun Appendix III: Indian Army Recruitment, 1914-18 RECRUITMENT BY PROVINCE, AUGUST 1914- NOVEMBER 1918 Province * Combatants Non-combatants Total Punjab 349,688 97,288 446,976 UP 163,578 117,565 281,143 Madras 51,223 41,117 92,340 Bombay 41,272 30,211 71,483 Bengal 7,117 51,935 59,052 NWFP 32,181 13,050 45,231 Bihar and Orissa 8,576 32,976 41,552 Burma 14,094 4,579 18,673 Assam 942 14,182 15,124 CP 5,376 9,631 15,007 Ajmer-Merwara 7,341 1,632 8,973 Baluchistan 1,761 327 2,088 Total 683,149 414,493 1,097,642 • These figures appear to refer to the provinces of British India only; but they seem to include recruitment to the Imperial Service Troops, as well as to the Indian Army. Source: India's Contribution to the Great War (Calcutta: Government of India, 1923) quoted in VanKoski, 'The Indian Ex-Soldier' p. 90. 366 Appendix III 367 RECRUITMENT BY CLASS, AUGUST 1914-NOVEMBER 1918 Class * Number Punjabi Muslims 136,126 Sikhs 88,925 Gurkhas 55,589 Rajputs 49,086 Jats 40,272 Other Hindus 38,546 Hindustani Muslims 36,353 Pathans 27,857 Dogras 23,491 Brahmans 20,382 Ahirs 19,544 Gujars 18,296 Tamils 16,390 Rajputana Jats 14,967 Rajputana and Central India Muslims 14,224 Rajputana Rajputs 13,104 Dekhani Mahrattas 12,266 Burmans 12,163 Konkhani Mahrattas 12,038 Dekhani Muslims 8,118 Total 657,739 • These were the twenty most-recruited classes, who between them supplied nearly 90 per cent of all combatant enlistments. The spellings and the contradictory categories conform to the Government of India original. Source: Van Koski 'The Indian Ex-Soldier' pp. 89-90. 368 Indian Voices of the Great War RECRUITMENT BY YEAR, 1914-18 Year Recruits 1914 (1 August-31 December) 24,666 1915 84,353 1916 93,388 1917 179,364 1918 (to 30 November) 290,687 Total 672,458* Total Combatants 826,868** Non-Combatants 445,592 Grand Total 1,272,460 • Indian Anny combatants only. •• Including Imperial Service Troops from the Princely States, and Indians enlisted in the British Anny. Source: Leask, 'The Expansion of the Indian Anny in the Great War', pp. 27-9. Appendix IV: Report on Twelve Months' Working of the Indian Mail Censorship Towards the end of September 1914, the Lahore and Meerut Divisions of the Indian Army, with the normal complement of British troops included, began to arrive in France. The force was disembarked at Marseilles, and, after a few days' rest there, was conveyed by train to Orleans. The route chosen for the troop trains was a circuitous one leading through Toulouse and other places in south-western France. While the force was in transit, a member of the Indian Revolutionary party, if it may be so called, was arrested in Toulouse, and upon examination his pockets were found to be stuffed with seditious literature intended for dissemination amongst the Indian soldiery. The authorities, thus set upon their guard, decided that, at least during the stay of the Indian troops in France, their correspondence must be subjected to systematic examination, and cast about for a suitable person to appoint as Indian Mail Censor. It was not easy to find anyone possessing anything like the requisite qualification, but eventually Second Lieutenant E. B. Howell, a member of the Political Department of the Indian Civil Service, who chanced to be serving in France as an interpreter, attached to a regiment of Indian cavalry, was chosen and directed to undertake this duty. The Indian Mail Censor reached Rouen, where the Indian Base Post Office was then established, on the 3rd November 1914, and forthwith set to work. From the very beginning to the present time the censorship has naturally had to work in close connection with the Indian postal authorities, and it would be impossible to acknowledge too warmly the assistance rendered by those concerned, without exception, from Lieutenant-Colonel Pilkington downwards. On the other hand, the censorship has always worked on the assumption that it was incumbent upon its officers to delay the mails and interfere with postal arrangements as little as possible, and the best relations have been maintained thoroughout.
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