3rd (Lahore) Division

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The 3rd (Lahore) Division was an infantry division of the British Indian Army

British Indian Army

The Indian Army was the principal army of the British Raj in India during the last half-century before the Partition of India of India in 1947....
. It was formed by General Kitchener

Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, Order of the Garter, Order of St Patrick, Order of the Bath, Order of Merit, Order of the Star of India, Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Indian Empire, Aid...
while he was Commander-in-chief of India between 1902 & 1909. The division was sent to France at the outbreak of the Great War, landing at Marseilles on 26 September 1914 as part of the Indian Corp. The corp was withdrawn in late 1915, and after that the 3rd Division fought in the Middle East

Middle Eastern theatre of World War I

The Middle Eastern theatre of World War I was fought between the Allies of World War I, primarily the British Empire and the Russian Empire on the one hand, and the Central Powers, primarily the Ottoman Empire and a German Military Mission, on the other....
.

Order of Battle September 1914

Ferozepore Brigade

1st Bn. Connaught Rangers
9th Bhopal Infantry
57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force)
129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis

Jullundur Brigade

1st Bn. Manchester Regiment
15th Ludhiana Sikhs
47th Sikhs
59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)

Sirhind Brigade

1st Bn. Highland Light Infantry
Highland Light Infantry

The Highland Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army from 1881 to 1959. In 1923 the regimental title was expanded to the Highland Light Infantry ...
125th Napier's Rifles
125th Napier's Rifles

The 125th Napier's Rifles was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. Its earlier names included The 25th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry and The 25th Bombay Rifles....
1st Bn. 1st Gurkha Rifles (The Malaun Regiment)
1st Bn. 4th Gurkha Rifles

15th Lancers (Cureton's Multanis) Divisional Reconnaissaince

34th Sikh Pioneers

Divisional Artillery

V Brigade RFA
RFA

selfref|On Wikipedia, RfA may refer to...
XI Brigade RFA
XVIII Brigade RFA
109 Battery RGA
Royal Garrison Artillery

The Royal Garrison Artillery was the arm of the Royal Artillery that was tasked with manning the guns of the British Empire's forts and fortresses, including the Empire's coastal artillery batteries, the heavy gun batteries attached to each infantry division, and the guns of the siege artillery....

External links

has list of all Indian Army regiments with pictures of their regimental badges.