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100			_aSingh, Harjeet _936199
245			_aThe corps of Sikh pioneers
260			_aU.S.I. Journal
300			_a152(629), Jul-Sep, 2022: p.373-384
520			_aFrom early days the necessity of having efficient Pioneer units in the British Indian Army was considered essential, and as time went on more and more Pioneer regiments were raised or existing Indian infantry regiments made into Pioneers, until the army In India had twelve Pioneer battalions. The British Army, strange to say, possessed no Pioneers beyond the few men in each battalion who were called Pioneers. Although the Sikh Pioneers did not have the length of service of many other regiments in the Indian Army, they saw more fighting than has fallen to the lot of many older units. Nearly every campaign fought by the Indian Army from 1857 till the Third Afghan War in 1919 has seen one or more of these three gallant regiments (23rd, 32nd and 34th Sikh Pioneers) taking part in it. This article encapsulates the history of the Sikh Pioneers from 1857 till they were disbanded in 1932. – Reproduced
650			_aBritish Indian Army, Indian Army, Army _936200
773			_aU.S.I. Journal
906			_aARMED FORCES
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