Below is a complete list of every Indian Infantry regiment which served in the First World War except for the Gurkhas and Imperial Service Troops. If you click on the regiment’s title you will be taken to a new page which will give you the following information:
- The Regiment’s lineage and class composition
- An overview of its services during the First World War
- A description of its war diaries including cataloguing numbers
- Further sources of information available at the archives or online
- Whether a regimental history was produced
- Transcriptions from a Regiment’s war diary
I have written separate guides to Indian Cavalry Regiments and Gurkha Regiments.
A watercolour by Alfred Crowdy Lovett from Armies of India by George Fletcher MacMunn showing soldiers from eleven of the twelve Indian pioneer battalions just before the First World War.
Indian Infantry Regiments of the First World War
2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Rajput Light Infantry, 1st Battalion
2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Rajput Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion
2nd Queen Victoria’s Own Rajput Light Infantry, 3rd Battalion
4th Prince Albert Victor’s Rajputs, 1st Battalion
4th Prince Albert Victor’s Rajputs, 2nd Battalion
5th Light Infantry, 1st Battalion
5th Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion
6th Jat Light Infantry, 1st Battalion
6th Jat Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion
7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajputs, 1st Battalion
7th Duke of Connaught’s Own Rajputs, 2nd Battalion
9th Bhopal Infantry, 1st Battalion
9th (Delhi) Infantry, 2nd Battalion
9th Bhopal Infantry, 3rd Battalion
9th Bhopal Infantry, 4th Battalion
12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment), 1st Battalion
12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment), 2nd Battalion
13th Rajputs (The Shekhawati Regiment)
14th King George’s Own Ferozepore Sikhs
15th Ludhiana Sikhs, 1st Battalion
15th Ludhiana Sikhs, 2nd Battalion
16th Rajputs (The Lucknow Regiment)
17th Infantry (The Loyal Regiment), 1st Battalion
17th Infantry (The Loyal Regiment), 2nd Battalion
20th Duke of Cambridge’s Own Infantry (Brownlow’s Punjabis)
23rd Sikh Pioneers, 1st Battalion
23rd Sikh Pioneers, 2nd Battalion
23rd Sikh Pioneers, 3rd Battalion
34th Sikh Pioneers, 1st Battalion
34th Sikh Pioneers, 2nd Battalion
34th Sikh Pioneers, 3rd Battalion
39th Garhwal Rifles, 1st Battalion
39th Garhwal Rifles, 2nd Battalion
39th Garhwal Rifles, 3rd Battalion
39th Garhwal Rifles, 4th Battalion
42nd Deoli Regiment, 1st Battalion
42nd Deoli Regiment, 2nd Battalion
43rd Erinpura Regiment, 1st Battalion
43rd Erinpura Regiment, 2nd Battalion
50th Kumaon Rifles, 1st Battalion
50th Kumaon Rifles, 2nd Battalion
54th Sikhs (Frontier Force), 1st Battalion
54th Sikhs (Frontier Force), 2nd Battalion
55th Coke’s Rifles (Frontier Force), 1st Battalion
55th Coke’s Rifles (Frontier Force), 2nd Battalion
56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force), 1st Battalion
56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force), 2nd Battalion
57th Wilde’s Rifles (Frontier Force)
58th Vaughan’s Rifles (Frontier Force)
59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)
61st King George’s Own Pioneers, 1st Battalion
61st King George’s Own Pioneers, 2nd Battalion
63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry, 1st Battalion
63rd Palamcottah Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion
70th Burma Rifles, 1st Battalion
70th Burma Rifles, 2nd Battalion
70th Burma Rifles, 3rd Battalion
70th Burma Rifles, 4th Battalion
73rd Carnatic Infantry, 1st Battalion
73rd Malabar Infantry, 2nd Battalion
75th Carnatic Infantry, 1st Battalion
75th Carnatic Infantry, 2nd Battalion
80th Carnatic Infantry, 2nd Battalion
83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry
88th Carnatic Infantry, 1st Battalion
88th Carnatic Infantry, 2nd Battalion
91st Punjabis (Light Infantry),1st Battalion
91st Punjabis (Light Infantry), 2nd Battalion
94th Russell’s Infantry, 1st Battalion
94th Russell’s Infantry, 2nd Battalion
95th Russell’s Infantry, 1st Battalion
95th Russell’s Infantry, 2nd Battalion
96th Berar Infantry, 1st Battalion
96th Berar Infantry, 2nd Battalion
97th Deccan Infantry, 1st Battalion
97th Deccan Infantry, 2nd Battalion
99th Deccan Infantry, 1st Battalion
99th Deccan Infantry, 2nd Battalion
The 101st Grenadiers, 1st Battalion
The 101st Grenadiers, 2nd Battalion
102nd King Edward’s Own Grenadiers, 1st Battalion
102nd King Edward’s Own Grenadiers, 2nd Battalion
103rd Mahratta Light Infantry, 1st Battalion
103rd Mahratta Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion
116th Mahrattas, 2nd Battalion
117th Mahrattas, 1st Battalion
117th Mahrattas, 2nd Battalion
119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment), 1st Battalion
119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment), 2nd Battalion
123rd Outram’s Rifles, 1st Battalion
123rd Outram’s Rifles, 2nd Battalion
124th Duchess of Connaught’s Own Baluchistan Infantry, 1st Battalion
124th Duchess of Connaught’s Own Baluchistan Infantry, 2nd Battalion
124th Duchess of Connaught’s Own Baluchistan Infantry, 3rd Battalion
125th Napier’s Rifles, 1st Battalion
125th Napier’s Rifles, 2nd Battalion
127th Queen Mary’s Own Baluch Light Infantry, 1st Battalion
127th Queen Mary’s Own Baluch Light Infantry, 2nd Battalion
129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis, 1st Battalion
129th Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchis, 2nd Battalion
130th King George’s Own Baluchis (Jacob’s Rifles), 1st Battalion
130th King George’s Own Baluchis, 2nd Battalion
131st United Provinces Regiment, 1st Battalion
131st United Provinces Regiment, 2nd Battalion
140th Patiala Infantry, 1st Battalion
141st Bikaner Infantry, 1st Battalion
142nd Jodhpur Infantry, 1st Battalion
143rd Narsingh (Dholpur) Infantry
150th Indian Infantry, 1st Battalion
150th Indian Infantry, 2nd Battalion
150th Indian Infantry, 3rd Battalion
151st Sikh Infantry, 1st Battalion
151st Indian Infantry, 2nd Battalion
151st Punjabi Rifles, 3rd Battalion
154th Indian Infantry, 1st Battalion
154th Indian Infantry, 2nd Battalion
154th Indian Infantry, 3rd Battalion
155th Indian Pioneers, 1st Battalion
155th Indian Infantry, 2nd Battalion
156th Indian Infantry, 1st Battalion