44th Armoured Division (India)
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The 44th Indian Armoured Division was an armoured division of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in Burma February 1943, from the 32nd
32nd Indian Armoured Division
The 32nd Indian Armoured Division was an armoured division of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in April 1941, as the 2nd Armoured Division, renamed the 33rd in December...

 and 43rd
43rd Armoured Division (India)
The 43rd Indian Armoured Division was an armoured division of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in July 1942. It never saw any combat and was broken up to form the 44th Airborne Division in February 1943.-268th Indian Armoured Brigade:...

 Armoured divisions. It was reformed as the 21st Infantry Division
21st Infantry Division (India)
The 21st Indian Infantry Division was a division of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in April 1944. in Assam. It never saw any combat and its only sub unit was the 268th Indian Infantry Brigade...

 in April 1944.

254th Indian Tank Brigade
254th Indian Tank Brigade
The 254th Indian Tank Brigade was an armoured brigade of the Indian Army during World War II, it was part of the Fourteenth Army and saw action in the Burma Campaign...

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    7th Light Cavalry
    The 7th Light Cavalry, was a regular army cavalry regiment in the British Indian Army which first came into British service with the East India Company and went on to serve on the North West Frontier and in World War I and World War II.-Formation:...

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    25th Dragoons
    The 25th Dragoons was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1941 to 1947.The regiment was raised in Sialkot, India, in February 1941 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 3rd Carabiniers along with volunteers from infantry regiments...

  • 46th Cavalry
  • 45th Cavalry
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  • 149th Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps
    Royal Armoured Corps
    The Royal Armoured Corps is currently a collection of ten regular regiments, mostly converted from old horse cavalry regiments, and four Yeomanry regiments of the Territorial Army...

     (RAC) raised from a Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
    King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
    The King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry was a regiment of the British Army. It officially existed from 1881 to 1968, but its predecessors go back to 1755. The regiment's traditions and history are now maintained by The Rifles.-The 51st Foot:...

  • 150th Regiment, RAC raised from 10th Bn York and Lancaster Regiment
    York and Lancaster Regiment
    -History:It was formed in 1881 through the amalgamation of two other regiments:*65th Regiment*84th RegimentThe title of the regiment was derived not from the cities of York and Lancaster, or from the counties...


255th Indian Armoured Brigade

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    26th Hussars
    The 26th Hussars was a cavalry regiment of the British Army from 1941 to 1943.The regiment was raised at Meerut in June 1941 from a cadre of personnel taken from the 14th/20th King's Hussars, and was assigned to 2nd Indian Armoured Brigade...

  • 45th Cavalry
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    4th Bombay Grenadiers
    The 4th Bombay Grenadiers were an infantry regiment of the pre-independence Indian Army, formed on 1 March 1922 as part of the reforms of the Indian Army that took place after the end of the First World War. Following this, the Regiment spent the next fifteen years serving in British Somaliland in...

  • 158th Regiment, RAC
  • 159th Regiment, RAC
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    5th King Edward's Own Probyn's Horse
    The 5 Horse is an armoured regiment of Pakistan Army. Previously, it was known as the 5th King Edward's Own Probyn's Horse, which was a regular cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army...

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    9th Royal Deccan Horse
    The 9th Royal Deccan Horse was a regular cavalry regiment of the British Indian Army , it was formed from the amalgamation of two regiments after World War I. They saw service from the Mutiny of 1857 up to and including World War II.-Formation:...

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  • 19th King George's Own Lancers
    19th King George's Own Lancers
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268th Indian Infantry Brigade
268th Indian Infantry Brigade
The 268th Indian Infantry Brigade was an Infantry formation of the Indian Army during World War II. It was formed in October 1942, by the re designation of 268th Indian Armoured Brigade. It was assigned to the 43rd Indian Armoured Division until March 1943. Then the 44th Indian Armoured Division...

converted from 268th Indian Armoured Brigade August 1945
  • 8/13th Frontier Force Rifles
    13th Frontier Force Rifles
    The 13th Frontier Force Rifles was part of the British Indian Army, and after 1947, Pakistan Army. It was formed in 1922 by amalgamation of five existing regiments and consisted of five regular battalions.-History:...

  • 17/10th Baluch Regiment
    10th Baluch Regiment
    The 10th Baluch or Baluch Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. After the Partition of India, it was transferred to the Pakistan Army. In 1956, it was amalgamated with the 8th Punjab and Bahawalpur Regiments...

  • 17/7th Rajput Regiment
    7th Rajput Regiment
    The 7th Rajput Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed in 1922, after the Indian government decided to reform the army moving away from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments...

  • 2/4th Bombay Grenadiers
    4th Bombay Grenadiers
    The 4th Bombay Grenadiers were an infantry regiment of the pre-independence Indian Army, formed on 1 March 1922 as part of the reforms of the Indian Army that took place after the end of the First World War. Following this, the Regiment spent the next fifteen years serving in British Somaliland in...

  • 5/4th Bombay Grenadiers
  • 1st Assam Regiment
    Assam Regiment
    The Assam Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army. The Regiment consists of 21 battalions; 14 regular units, three Rashtriya Rifles units, three infantry battalions of the Territorial Army and one battalion of Arunachal Scouts...

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    3rd Madras Regiment
    The 3rd Madras Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army formed after the World War I reforms of the Indian Army. The infantry regiments were converted into large regiments with four or five battalions in each regiment plus a training battalion, always numbered the 10th The...

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  • 2nd The South Lancashire Regiment
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