Bengali Regiment
military unit
The 49th Bengalee Regiment (Bengali: ৪৯তম বেঙ্গলি রেজিমেন্ট), also known as The 49th Bengalee, 49th Bengal Infantry, Bengali Double Company, Bengali Platoon and Bangali Paltan (বাঙালি পল্টন), was a military unit of the British Indian Army raised during World War I with Lt. S. G. Taylor as the Regiment Commander. In the beginning of the First World War, the army began to recruit many soldiers, non-combatants, and skilled and unskilled laborers from Bengal. In middle 1916, the British government decided to create a regiment of Bengali soldiers. At first, it was called Bengali Double Company. These double companies, each consisting of 228 soldiers, were integrated into the British Indian Army. The Bengali Double Company raised the first Bengali battalion on 26 June 1917. It was named The 49th Bengalee Regiment or briefly The 49th Bengalee. It was disbanded in 1920.
They fought in Mesopotamian campaign, and were stationed in Baghdad.
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