the madras regiment in a sentence
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- On 12 May, the soldiers of the Assam Rifles, the Madras Regiment and the Central Reserve Police staged flag march in Silchar.
- The film begins with Major Rajendran ( ISI agent in the Indian Army and pays him 5 crores rupees for capturing the Madras Regiment.
- Having completed the course there, he proceeded to India and was commissioned and appointed to the Madras Regiment, the oldest in the country.
- During the 1971 war, the Madras Regiment was tasked to capture Lalial and Sarajchak, prior to establishing a bridgehead across the river Basantar.
- W . J . Wilson, who wrote on the history of the Madras Regiment, credits Captain Clafam and his six sepoys for killing of Raja.
- In 1895, the presidency armies were finally merged and the Madras regiments came under the direct control of the Commander-in-chief of British India.
- Due to the efforts of Hope, the Madras Regiment was revived in 1942 and Hope was appointed the regiment's first Colonel-in-chief.
- In October 1945, all the Infantry Regiments of the Indian Army ( barring Punjab ) shed their numbers and the 3rd Madras Regiment became simply The Madras Regiment.
- The oldest Battalion in the Madras Regiment ( and the Indian Army ) was the 9th Battalion, formerly known as the Nair Brigade ( " Nayar Pattalam ", " Nair Army " ).
- In April 1951 the battalion was integrated with Indian Army and on 1 May 1954, it was merged with the Madras Regiment and was re-designated 9th Battalion of the Madras Regiment ( Travancore ).