3rd Brahmans

3rd Brahmans
Active 1798-1922
Country Indian Empire
Branch Army
Type Infantry
Part of Bengal Army (to 1895)
Bengal Command
Uniform Red; faced black
Engagements 1825 - 26 Bhurtpore
1879 - 80 Afghanistan
Commanders
Colonel-in-Chief King Edward VII (1904)

The 3rd Brahmans were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. They could trace their origins to 1798, when they were the 1st Battalion, 16th Bengal Native Infantry. Over the years they were known by a number of different names. The 32nd Bengal Native Infantry 18241861, the 3rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry 18611885, the 3rd Regiment of Bengal Infantry 18851901 and finally after the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army when the names of the presidencies were dropped; the 3rd Brahmans. Before being disbanded in 1922,[1] they had taken part in the Second Anglo-Afghan War and World War I.[2]

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