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	Indian Army Grenadiers Regiment
		The Grenadiers have one of the longest and unbroken records of existence in the Indian Army.
		In 1945 the regiment was redesignated The Indian Grenadiers and assigned to India as the country was partitioned by the departing British.
		The 1st Grenadiers were transferred to the Brigade of Guards in 1950 and a parachute regiment was raised in 1952.
	www.grenadiers.info /indian (309 words)

	Grenadiers Regiment
		Grenadier companies of Bombay Sepoys won the battle of Talegaon in 1778, and by 1784 the Grenadier companies had been given the title of Bombay Grenadiers.
		Thus 4th Bombay Grenadiers came to be known as The Indian Grenadiers in 1945 and was given to India.
		The Maratha Light Infantry (MLI) RR battalion was raised at Belgaum, the Madras Regiment at Tiruchi, the Assam Regiment RR battalion at Shillong, the Punjab RR at Ramgarh, Grenadiers at Jabalpur and the Dogra Regiment RR battalion at Faizabad.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/india/rgt-grenadiers.htm (883 words)

	Defenceindia : Indian Army : The Grenadiers Regiment
		The insignia is worn on the uniform with a white hackle.
		The Grenadiers known as the "Grinders" is one of the longest intact regiment in the Indian Army.
		The Grenadiers' badge bears the White Horse of Hanover.
	www.defenceindia.com /defenceind/grenadier_regiment.html (103 words)

	The Grenadiers Regiment
		The concept of 'Grenadiers' evolved from the practice of selecting the bravest and strongest men for the most dangerous tasks in combat.
		The Grenadiers have the unique and distinct honour of having the most number of Param Vir Chakras, India's highest medal for gallantry, among all the Indian Army's Infantry Regiments.
		The third recipient of this coveted medal, but certainly not the last, was Grenadier Yogender Singh Yadav, 18th Grenadiers in 1999.
	www.bharat-rakshak.com /LAND-FORCES/Army/Regiments/Grenadiers.html (290 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: Grenadiers' history is replete with stories of valour
		It was a moment of triumph, particularly for five of them when their battalion, 18 Grenadiers, hoisted the National Tricolour on the night of July 3-4 atop Tiger Hill, the most dominating feature in the Kargil sector, evicting the Pakistani intruders in what proved to be the turning point of the conflict.
		Lying with multiple splinter injuries, suffered on June 19 during the long-drawn operations in the Drass sector, Ashok Kumar and Ramesh Chander felt ''it was not a matter of whether but when'' for their fellow soldiers from the battalion as it continued its onslaught on the enemy to recapture the strategic position.
		Paeans of praise came the way of 18 Grenadiers soon after the Tiger Hill triumph and it was awarded the prestigious 'Unit Citation' by the chief of the army staff.
	www.rediff.com /news/1999/jul/19kash1.htm (622 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/101st Grenadiers
		The Regiment was first formed in 1778 after 6 grenadier companies (two companies each from the three battalions of the Bombay Army) were combined to form a composite battalion.
		The battery of the Royal Horse Artillery subsequently withdrew and the Grenadiers, as-well as the rest of the Indian forces, fled towards the 66th Foot, the sole British infantry regiment present.
		The Grenadiers commanding officer (CO) was severely wounded during the battle and his life was saved by Risaldar Dhonkhul Singh of the 3rd Bombay Light Cavalry.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/101st_Grenadiers (1794 words)

	The Grenadiers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Grenadiers are a regiment of the Indian Army, formerly known as the 4th Bombay Grenadiers when part of the British Indian Army.
		The oldest Grenadier Regiment of the armies in the Commonwealth belongs to the Indian Army.
		Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid, 4th Grenadiers was the first recipient of the Param Vir Chakra (Posthumous) for the Regiment in 1965 and the second recipient to get the Param Vir Chakra was Major Hoshiar Singh, 3rd Grenadiers in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bombay_Grenadiers (408 words)

	All Empires History Forum: July 27 - Battle of Maiwand
		A British Bombay army force, commanded by Lieutenant General J.M. Primrose, was stationed in Kandahar along with an Afghan army commanded by its governor.
		The Heratis hit the grenadiers and the Kabulis engaged the Jacob's Rifles.
		Under intensifying pressure, elements of Jacob's Rifles and part of the Grenadiers retired to Mah-mudabad, while the rest of the Grenadiers and the 66th were forced off to the right toward Khik.
	www.allempires.com /Forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=13600 (5467 words)

	The Last to Leave
		The slow march of the Somerset Light Infantry though the city of Bombay culminated at the Gateway to India.
		The monumental structure was erected to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary in 1911.
		The new Indian Army was represented by a guard of honour from the Bombay Grenadiers, the 2nd Sikhs, and the Royal Indian Navy.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /India/last.html (454 words)

	Afghanistan78
		He then joined the Bombay Staff Corps and was posted to the 4th Bombay N.I. He founded the 'Kandahar News' and wrote for the 'Times of India'.
		He joined the Bombay Staff Corps and was posted to the 19th Bombay N.I. At Deh Khoja he was shot and killed.
		He joined the Bombay Staff Corps and was posted to the 21st Bombay N.I. In 1879 he joined Jacob's Rifles and was killed at Maiwand.
	members.tripod.com /~Glosters/afghinf.htm (2773 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Major Alastair Dunlop
		Major Alastair Dunlop, who has died aged 85, was awarded the MC and Bar while serving with the Bombay Grenadiers in the Burma campaign.
		On February 1 1945, A Company 3rd Battalion 4th Bombay Grenadiers, commanded by Dunlop, then a major, dug in across the Irrawaddy from Kyaukmyaung and held the bridgehead.
		In 1939, he was posted to the 1st Battalion (101st) 4th Bombay Grenadiers, but transferred to the 3rd Battalion the following year and accompanied them to Burma in September 1943.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/07/14/db1401.xml (649 words)

	HISTORIK ORDERS, LTD MEDAL GALLERY THE SECOND AFGHAN WAR
		George Frederick Blackwood, the son of a Bengal Artillery officer and the grandson of William Blackwood, the eminent Edinburgh publisher, was born in Moradabad in 1838, and was educated at Edinburgh Academy, the Scottish Naval and Military Academy in Lothian Road, Edinburgh, and at Addiscombe.
		The force marched, headed by a troop of the 3rd Bombay Cavalry thrown out as skirmishes in front of the same regiment, with a troop of the Scinde horse on its left and fifty sabres of the latter regiment on its right.
		The infantry covered the advance to Slade's smooth-bore battery in the centre, with the Bombay Grenadiers in column on the extreme left, and between them and the guns, a half a company of Sappers and Miners.
	www.historikorders.com /secondafganwar.htm (4409 words)

	Battle of Maiwand - Second Afghan War
		The 1st Grenadiers and the cavalry suffered significant casualties while the 66th and Jacob’s Rifles were able to find cover from the bombardment.
		The 66th and the Grenadiers, pursued by large numbers of Afghans, crossed the ravine into Khig, where around 100 officers and men made a stand in a garden on the edge of the village.
		During the disorganized retreat the pursuing Afghan cavalry were held off by a squadron of the Scind Horse, the RHA battery and the infantry from the baggage guard, although many stragglers were caught and killed, particularly the wounded.
	www.britishbattles.com /second-afghan-war/maiwand.htm (3837 words)

	March to Kandahar and the Battle of Baba Wali - Second Afghan War
		The British Army overcame the mutineers with the assistance of the few loyal regiments of the Bengal Army and the regiments of the Bombay and Madras Presidencies, which on the whole did not mutiny.
		The remaining Bombay brigade found itself besieged in Kandahar by Ayub Khan’s victorious army, the nearest support hundreds of miles away in Kabul and in Quetta, forces commanded by General Roberts and Brigadier General Phayre respectively.
		Nuttall’s brigade of Bombay cavalry, survivors from the battle at Maiwand, was to picket the Murcha, while Bombay infantry and the 7th Royal Fusiliers threatened the Baba Wali Kotal.
	www.britishbattles.com /second-afghan-war/kandahar.htm (2289 words)

	Chap
		Eleven Grenadiers located somewhere in the western sector celebrated its 41st re-Raising Day.
		It was raised as a territorial unit in 1922 and was named 11/4 Bombay Grenadiers (Mewar) Infantry.
		Also present on the occasion were Brig (Retd) Mohinder Singh, the second Commanding Officer of the battalion and many retired officers who had hoisted the flag of the battalion at Jaipur on October 1, 1963.
	mod.nic.in /samachar/nov15-03/html/ch11.htm (185 words)

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		Was it an adjunct to Jacob's Rifles (composed of Baluchis and in Bombay Army)?
		Regarding the grenadiers- I wouldn't have a clue- no famous oils or even watercolours for that matter (mostly because they were raised post-independence).
		When 8th Bombay NI was raised to Bombay Grenadiers the practise of selecting only certain size soldiers was adopted...
	www.strategypage.com /messageboards/messages/72-11172.asp (3329 words)

	Amazon.com: "Bombay Sepoys": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Two Bengal battalions were stationed on the Nerbuddah, at Sinnore ; two battalions of Bombay Sepoys, one of which was held ready at Surat,...
		In 1739, it was said that the Bombay sepoys were `formerly subjects and have relations and are intermarried with the inhabitants' of the Bombay neighbourhood.
		They were needed, for, on 14 June, seditious correspondence between the mutineers and Bombay sepoys was discovered." There was just enough manpower for holding operations and a counterattack towards Cawnpore, but insufficient for the creation...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Bombay-Sepoys (552 words)

	Amazon.com: "Bombay Grenadiers": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Bombay regiments added 1 oo, so that the 1 st Bombay Grenadiers became the 101st Grenadiers, and so on.
		At midday, 9th (Royal Deccan) Horse and its attached infantry, 4/4th Bombay Grenadiers, attacked the village of Seywa, a mile west of Ngathayauk,...
		It seemed unlikely, on the face of it, that Mr Craddock of Craddock and Company, lately a member of the Bombay Grenadiers, would be employed in subversive activities or mixed up in murder.
	www.amazon.com /phrase/Bombay-Grenadiers (510 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Chandigarh Stories
		During 1783-84, the Grenadiers participated in the heroic defence of Mangalore alongside the Black Watch, following which the badge of the White Horse of Hanover and the Battle Honour Mangalore were conferred upon the regiment.
		Later, it was rechristened as 1st Battalion of the 4th Bombay Grenadiers.
		During World War-II, the Grenadiers were stationed in Persia and they returned to India in 1946 being redesignated as 1st Battalion of the Indian Grenadiers.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2003/20031118/cth1.htm (7822 words)

	Old Deccan Days: Notes on the Narrator's Narrative
		When we visited Koreigaom, the most conspicuous among the crowd of villagers was a little Mahratta boy, who over his ordinary garments had donned the full dress coatee of a native officer's uniform of half a century ago.
		He was the son of a Jemadar (captain of native infantry), selected by Sir John Malcolm from among the heroes of the Grenadiers, to hold a small grant of land which the wise liberality of the old Court of Directors had given in perpetuity to insure the safeguard of the monument.
		The lad had carefully preserved his father's sword, sash, and cap, and had ranged them on a carpet in the little courtyard in front of his door, that we might see them as we passed by to examine the scene of the struggle.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/odd/odd29.htm (1684 words)

	RAShebbeare
		The above (fl and white sketch caricature) was done during my last term at Sandhurst and it was the end of September when I sailed from Portsmouth on the troopship “Neuralia”, with the Highland Light Infantry on board destined for Malta, and the Devon Regiment for Quetta via Karachi.
		They fitted into our class composition and having kitted them out in our regimental uniform they were playing for us by the next weekend which was very good for morale – and the men themselves were delighted to remain enlisted.
		Battalion Indian Grenadiers, for he was our Colonel-in-Chief. Knowing him to have been wholly against the division I asked him why he had eventually agreed.
	www.shebbeare.com (5786 words)

	The second Green Nile game run by Jackson Gamers
		The military camp was fortified with a thorn zariba and manned by the British company commanded by Captain John MacDuff [Sean Pitts] (seconded from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders) and the Indian company commanded by Major Robert Allen [Robert Whitfield] (of the Bombay Grenadiers).
		The Royal Hussars took heavy losses (50%) in repulsing the mounted attack at the entrance to the zariba and later in supporting the RA sections against the riverine Dervish force.
		But the heaviest fighting in the defense of the zariba was by the Indian company of Major Allen (Bombay Grenadiers).
	www.angelfire.com /games3/jacksongamer/grn_nile2.htm (2103 words)

	[CCI] Seeking awards... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The qualifying period was: 21 January 1920 to 12 February 1920.
		Apart from elements of the King's African Rifles, the Somaliland Camel Corps, 1/101st Bombay Grenadiers and some Somaliland Levies, one Flight of the RAF was presenr - your lot, no doubt!
		Although the individuals concerned would have to be there during the actual qualifying period, to get the medal.
	pease1.sr.unh.edu /pipermail/cci/2005-April/001011.html (119 words)

	British-Yemeni Society: Division of the Yemen 1902-1904, by G A Shepherd
		The British party was led by Colonel Wahab CIE., RE.
		This consisted of men of the second battalion of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, the 102nd Grenadiers from Bombay, the Aden troop of cavalry and a section of two guns from 45 Company Royal Garrison Artillery.
		It took the force of 500 officers and men nine days to reach Dhala’, some 88 miles from Aden.
	www.al-bab.com /bys/articles/shepherd93.htm (1259 words)

	Notes-The Battle of Maiwand
		They did have the problem of the added responsibility of guarding a large baggage train which General Burrows had decided to take with him as he had insufficient forces to leave it behind with an adequate guard.
		Both regiments of Bombay Native Infantry now fell back in confusion on the position of the 66
		Foot who found themselves pressed on by mixed masses of Ghazis and their own Native Infantry.
	www.members.dca.net /fbl/maiwand.html (846 words)

	"The Madness of Colonel Warburton" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He sailed for India in 1831, entering the Bombay Army as a subaltern, becoming Adjutant to the Marine Battalion, Bombay.
		He served in India until 1852, the greater part of the time in the Adjutant General's Department, rising through the ranks until he attained his majority, and became Deputy Adjutant General at Headquarters.
		He retired in March, 1853 on a captain's pension, and in September the same year arrived in Adelaide with his wife and family.
	www1.parkcity.ne.jp /hirayama/Warburton.htm (1347 words)

	Brief Family History
		Lewis Andrew COLLETT arrived in India aboard the ship "Duke of Montrose" on 4th July 1792 and served in the Bombay Grenadiers for 20 years ending up as Garrison Sergeant-Major in Surat.
		When he got out of the Grenadiers he then set up his own business as a carriage builder in Girgaum Back Road, Bombay.
		Henry HOLDWAY embarked for Bengal 9 May 1840 aboard the Ship 'Malcolm'.
	valmayukuk.tripod.com /id1.html (364 words)

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