See how you do with this lot.

[Lampwick]

Hi again. Following the great success in identifying my previous titles will you all please put your heads together and have a go at this Indian lot? Many thanks in advance of what I'm sure will be a triumph!! ONLY 3 TO GO!!! 19 in less than 3 hours.

1 Indian Army Ordnance Corps
2 Alwar Regiment (pre 1947)
3 27th Light Cavalry
4 8th Lancers
5 14th Murray's Jat Lancers
6 18th Tiwana Lancers
7 Military Engineering Services
8 Azad Kashmir Regular Forces
9 21 Mountain Battery.....Another member writes "The titles for mountain batteries that I have all have the numeral above MTN" ???
10 Indian Army Ordnance Corps
11 Indian Field Regiment
12 17th Lancers (pre 1903)
13 Indian Army Reserve
14 Indian Ordnance Department
15 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers
16 Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles
17 Poss. Indian Volunteer Corps
18 Royal Deccan Horse
19 6th Prince of Wales's Cavalry (before 1906).
20 70th Burma Rifles
21 Royal Garhwal Rifles
22 6th Rajputana Rifles

[Phil2M]

1 and 10 are Indian Army Ordnance Corps
7 is Military Engineering Services
13 is Indian Army Reserve
21 could be Royal Gurkha Regiment?

[revdougal]

No 9. 21 Mountain Battery - but date? Norman Litchfield pitched this type as 2WW, but in view of the shape of lugs on some examples, it could be earlier.

[Wmr-RHB]

19 could be 6th Prince of Wales's Cavalry (before 1906).

Sorry, I doubt that RGR is Royal Gurkha Regiment. No regiment of that name. But it could be Royal Garhwal Rifles. At least that fits the acronym and belongs to the Indian Army.

[Lampwick]

Great start chaps, thanks.

[Wmr-RHB]

Again simply from trying to match the acronyms with regimental titles and without any further evidence:

18. Royal Deccan Horse (post 1922 or even post 1927).

12. 17th Lancers (pre 1903, the regiment was retitled from Lancers into Cavalry in 1903 to avoid a name clash with the British 17th Lancers, but that did of course nothing to let it abandon lancer style, thus this 17L could even have been worn later).

15. 6th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers (post 1922)?

[Lampwick]

Henk. You must have thousands of reference books about the Indian Army. You're seldom stumped. Keep up the good work.
PS I've just had the idea of marrying them up with the badges that came in the same lot and have filled in a few more. I stand to be corrected, of course!

[Wmr-RHB]

Originally Posted by Lampwick

Henk. You must have thousands of reference books about the Indian Army. You're seldom stumped.

Not thousands. In fact the main source is Boris Mollo's "The Indian Army". Thus when I am wrong, either I misinterpreted him or he misinterpreted one of his sources. These lineage lists are always the result of compiling from earlier (often official)) sources. Errors can creep in at all phases

[peter monahan]

I think the money I spent for Mollo's book is the best investment I ever made in this hobby!

[Wmr-RHB]

And of course the Regimets.org web-site is there to fill in the gaps, or to provide contradicting information

http://web.archive.org/web/200710110...regiments.org/

[blackpowder44]

No. 22 6th. Rajputana Rifles.John

[Lampwick]

Originally Posted by blackpowder44

No. 22 6th. Rajputana Rifles.John

Well spotted John. I was reading it as GRR not 6RR. Daft really as I have the badge here in the room with me!

[Phil2M]

14 could well be the Indian Ordnance Department

[Phil2M]

11 could be Indian Field Regiment

"The first Indian War of Independence was sparked off at Meerut on 10 May 1857, primarily by native artillery of Bengal Army. This resulted in total ban on Indian artillery units except mountain artillery batteries till British Government later relented on this order and thus on 15 January 1935, `A’ Field Brigade was formed, which later became 1st Indian Field Regiment."

[Lampwick]

Well, that pretty well wraps that up then. A big THANK YOU to all who helped out.