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[Igor Kulakov]

Indian Army, 1939
© 2003 Ravi Rikhye.

v.1.0 March 11, 2001

Thic opyright list is by Dr. Graham Watson.

This list is based on the Indian Army List of July 1939. It provides titles of units and locations for that date. Units marked with an * are those which had undergone or were undergoing the process of ‘Indianisation’ by which their British officers were being replaced by Indian officers. Under plans announced in 1923, this process would extend to the whole Indian Army and be complete by 1967.

Cavalry

Cavalry regiments were organised into three administrative groups, with one regiment in each group permanently allocated the depot and training role for the group. By 1939 a few regiments had been mechanised but the rest retained their horses.
1st GROUP

1st Skinner’s Horse [mech 1939]
Bannu

2nd Royal Lancers (Gardner’s Horse) [mech 1939]
Jullundur

3rd Cavalry *
Jubbulpore

15th Lancers (Depot Regiment)
Jhansi

16th Light Cavalry *
Peshawar

17th Poona Horse
Poona

18th King Edward VII’s Own Cavalry
Meerut


2nd GROUP

4th Hodson’s Horse
Lorelai

5th Probyn’s Horse
Risalpur

10th Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force)
Quetta

11th Prince Albert Victor’s Own Cavalry (Frontier Force)
Sialkot

12th Sam Browne's Cavalry (Depot Regiment)
Ferozepore

13th Duke of Connaught’s Lancers [mech 1938]
Peshawar

14th Scinde Horse mech 1938
Rawalpindi


3rd GROUP

6th Duke of Connaught’s Lancers
Delhi

7th Light Cavalry *
Bolarum

8th King George’s Own Light Cavalry
Kohat

9th Royal Deccan Horse
Quetta

19th King George’s Own Lancer
Lahore

20th Lancer (Depot Regiment)
Lucknow

21st Central India Horse [mech 1939]
Meerut


Artillery

The previously independent mountain batteries had been grouped together into six mountain regiments.

20th Mountain Regiment
Quetta

22 Mountain Battery
Quetta

23 Mountain Battery
Quetta

24 Mountain Battery
Quetta

25 Mountain Battery
Fort Sandeman

21st Mountain Regiment
Peshawar

1 Royal (Kohat) Mountain Battery
Peshawar

6 (Jacob’s) Mountain Battery
Nowshera

9 (Murree) Mountain Battery
Peshawar

14 (Rajputana) Mountain Battery
Landi kotal

22nd Mountain Regiment
Ambala

4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery
Dehra Dun

7 (Bengal) Mountain Battery
Dehra Dun

10 (Abbottabad) Mountain Battery
Ambala

21 Mountain Battery
Ambala

23rd Mountain Regiment
Razmak

3 (Peshawar) Mountain Battery
Razmak

8 (Lahore) Mountain Battery
Razmak

12 (Poonch) Mountain Battery
Razmak

17 (Nowshera) Mountain Battery
Wana

24th Mountain Regiment
Kohat

11 (Dehra Dun) Mountain Battery
Kohat

16 (Zhob) Mountain Battery
Rawalpindi

18 (Sohan) Mountain Battery
Mi Ali

20 Mountain Battery
Thal

25th Mountain Regiment
Abbottabad

5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery
Abbottabad

13 (Dardoni) Mountain Battery
Abbottabad

15 (Jhelum) Mountain Battery
Abbottabad

19 (Maymyo) Mountain Battery
Rawalpindi

Independent Batteries

2 (Derajat) Mountain Battery
Maymyo


Sapper and Miners

King George V’s Own Bengal Sappers & Miners Roorkee (depot)
1 Field Company
Peshawar

2 Field Company
Nowshera

3 Field Company
Wana

4 Field Company
Roorkee

5 Field Company
Rawalpindi

6 Army Troops Company
Roorkee

7 Company –not yet formed

8 Army Troops Company
Roorkee

31 Field Troop
Risalpur

35 Field Troop
Roorkee

41 Divisional HQ Company
Rawlpindi

43 Divisional HQ Company
Roorkee

Queen Victoria’s Own Madras Sappers & Miners
Bangalore (depot)

9 Field Company
Wana

10 Field Company
Razmak

11 Army Troops Company
Bangalore

12 Field Company
Bangalore

13 Field Company
Mandalay

14 Field Company
Bangalore

15 Field Company *
Bangalore

16 Army Troops Company
Wana

44 Divisional HQ Company
Bangalore

Royal Bombay Sappers & Miners
Kirkee(depot)

17 Field Company
Wana

18 Field Company
Kirkee

19 Field Company
Quetta

20 Field Company
Kirkee

21 Field Company
Kirkee

22 Field Company *
Kohat

42 Divisional HQ Company
Quetta


Signals
‘A’ Corps Signals
Rawlpindi

‘B’ Corps Signals
Karachi

1st Indian Divisional Signals
Rawalpindi

Western District Signals
Quetta

3rd Indian Divisional Signals
Meerut

4th Indian Divisional Signals
Trimulgherry

Peshawar District Signals
Peshawar

Waziristan District Signals
Dera Ismail Khan

Kohat District Signals
Kohat

1st Cavalry Brigade Signal Troop
Risalpur

3rd Cavalry Brigade Signal Troop
Meerut

4th Cavalry Brigade Signal Troop
Trimulgherry

Indian Army Signal School
Poona


Infantry

Infantry Battalions were grouped into 18 regiments, each of which had a training battalion which was designated the 10th Bn, and several active battalions.
1ST PUNJAB REGIMENT

1st Bn
Cannanore

2nd Bn*
Multan

3rd Bn
Jhansi

4th Bn –disbanded

5th Bn
Jullundur

2ND PUNJAB REGIMENT

1st Bn
Jubbulpore

2nd Bn
Manzai

3rd Bn
Lucknow

4th Bn –disbanded January 1939

5th Bn*
Secunderabad

3RD MADRAS REGIMENT

Regiment had been disbanded –was not reformed until 1941

4TH BOMBAY GRENADIERS

1st Bn
Midnapore

2nd Bn
Rawlpindi

5TH MAHRATTA LIGHT INFANTRY

1st Bn
Mir Ali

2nd Bn
Delhi

3rd Bn
Bombay

4th Bn
Nowshera

5th Bn*
Fort Sandeman

6TH RAJPUTANA RIFLES

1st Bn
Ahmednagar

2nd Bn
Kohat

3rd Bn
Peshawar

4th Bn
Jhansi

5th Bn*
Hong Kong

7TH RAJPUT REGIMENT

1st Bn*
Kamptee

2nd Bn
Razmak

3rd Bn
Hyderabad

4th Bn
Aurangabad

5th Bn
Mhow

8TH PUNJAB REGIMENT

1st Bn
Fatehgarh

2nd Bn
Rawlpindi

3rd Bn
Wana

4th Bn
Peshawar

5th Bn
Kohat

9TH JAT REGIMENT

1st Bn
Drosh

2nd Bn
Chaman

3rd Bn
Bara Fort

10TH BALUCH REGIMENT

1st Bn
Jhelum

2nd Bn
Fyzabad

3rd Bn
Razmak

4th Bn
Fort Sandeman

5th Bn*
Ferozepore

11TH SIKH REGIMENT

1st Bn
Chittagong

2nd Bn
Nowshera

3rd Bn
Allahabad

4th Bn
Landi Kotal

5th Bn*
Razmak

12TH FRONTIER FORCE REGIMENT

1st Bn
Bannu

2nd Bn
Lansdowne

3rd Bn
Baroda

4th Bn*
Fort Salop

5th Bn
Mardan

13TH FRONTIER FORCE RIFLES

1st Bn
Fort Lockhart

2nd Bn
St Thomas Mount

3rd Bn –not formed

4th Bn
Kohat

5th Bn
Kohat

6th Bn*
Secunderabad

14TH PUNJAB REGIMENT

1st Bn*
Bannu

2nd Bn
Dacca

3rd Bn
Ambala

4th Bn
Peshawar

5th Bn
Poona

15TH PUNJAB REGIMENT

1st Bn
Alipore

2nd Bn
Thal

3rd Bn
Jhansi

4th Bn
Shagai

16TH PUNJAB REGIMENT

1st Bn
Jhelum

2nd Bn
Delhi

3rd Bn
Karachi

4th Bn
Poona

17TH DOGRA REGIMENT

1st Bn
Jhelum

2nd Bn
Taiping

3rd Bn
Lahore

18TH ROYAL GARWHAL RIFLES

1st Bn
Wana

2nd Bn
Lansdowne

3rd Bn
Chaman

19th HYDERABAD REGIMENT

1st Bn
Ahmednagar

2nd Bn
Peshawar

3rd Bn –disbanded

4th Bn*
Secunderabad

20TH BURMA RIFLES

This regiment was transferred to the Burma establishment in 1937

1st KING GEORGE V’S OWN GURKHA RIFLES (THE MALAUN REGIMENT)

1st Bn
Dharamsk

2nd Bn
Razmak

2ND KING EDWARD VII’S OWN GURKHA RIFLES (THE SIRMOOR RIFLES)

1st Bn
Fort Sandeman

2nd Bn
Dehra Dun

3RD QUEEN ALEXANDRA’S OWN GURKHA RIFLES

1st Bn
Almora

2nd Bn
Wana

4TH PRINCE OF WALES’S OWN GURKHA RIFLES

1st Bn
Bannu

2nd Bn
Loralai

5TH ROYAL GURKHA RIFLES (FRONTIER FORCE)

1st Bn
Abbottbad

2nd Bn
Landi Kotal

6TH GURKHA RIFLES

1st Bn
Malakand

2nd Bn
Abbottbad

7TH GURKHA RIFLES

1st Bn
Shillong

2nd Bn
Shillong

8TH GURKHA RIFLES

1st Bn
Razmak

2nd Bn
Wana

9TH GURKHA RIFLES

1st Bn
Dehra Dun

2nd Bn
Dehra Dun

10TH GURKHA RIFLES

1st Bn
Quetta

2nd Bn
Quetta