A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Snape David
A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Snape David Accounts of the Indian Corps as a whole have been published in recent years but few have concentrated…
Specifikacia A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Snape David
A Tiger Loose on an Ice Floe: The Ferozepore Brigade on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Snape David
Accounts of the Indian Corps as a whole have been published in recent years but few have concentrated on the experiences of a single infantry brigade. As with all Indian Army brigades, it consisted of three Indian battalions: 9th Bhopal Infantry, 57th (Wilde's) Rifles (Frontier Force) and the 129th The Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis. The Ferozepore Brigade, part of the Lahore Division, had been created in 1904 during the Kitchener reforms of the Indian Army.
Such was the haste of the Ferozepore Brigade's mobilization and the anomalies which had been allowed to exist with its organization and equipment that the Brigade's composition had to be reorganized during the In addition, the Brigade had one British Regular Army Battalion, the 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers.The Indian Corps was mobilized very efficiently in August 1914 and embarked for France in the following month.