The 97th Deccan Infantry was an infantry regiment of the
British Indian Army
The British Indian Army, commonly referred to as the Indian Army, was the main military of the British Raj before its dissolution in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of the British Indian Empire, including the princely states, which co ...
. They could trace their origin to 1794, when they were the 3rd Battalion of the Aurangabad Division in the
Hyderabad State
Hyderabad State () was a princely state located in the south-central Deccan region of India with its capital at the city of Hyderabad. It is now divided into the present-day state of Telangana, the Kalyana-Karnataka region of Karnataka, and t ...
army. Which took part in the
Battle of Seringapatam
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in the
Fourth Anglo-Mysore War
The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a conflict in South India between the Kingdom of Mysore against the British East India Company and the Hyderabad Deccan in 1798–99.
This was the final conflict of the four Anglo-Mysore Wars. The British captured ...
.
After the
Kitchener reforms
The British Indian Army, commonly referred to as the Indian Army, was the main military of the British Raj before its dissolution in 1947. It was responsible for the defence of the British Indian Empire, including the princely states, which cou ...
of the Indian Army all the
Princely state
A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Raj, British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, ...
forces were incorporated into the Indian Army in 1903. During
World War I
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the regiment served in the
15th Indian Division during the
Mesopotamia Campaign
The Mesopotamian campaign was a campaign in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I fought between the Allies represented by the British Empire, troops from Britain, Australia and the vast majority from British India, against the Central Po ...
.
After World War I the Indian government again reformed the army, moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.
[Sumner p.15] The 97th Deccan Infantry now became the 3rd Battalion,
19th Hyderabad Regiment
The 19th Hyderabad Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was formed at the time of reforms of the Indian Army after the First World War, when it moved from single-battalion regiments to multi-battalion regiments. The reg ...
. This was one of the regiments allocated to the new
Indian Army
The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...
on independence.
Previous names
*3rd Battalion of the Aurangabad Division - 1794
*4th Regiment of Infantry, Nizam's Army - 1826
*4th Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent - 1854
*97th Deccan Infantry - 1903
References
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British Indian Army infantry regiments
Military units and formations established in 1794
Military units and formations disestablished in 1922
Military history of the Madras Presidency
Indian World War I regiments
1794 establishments in British India
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