Alcock sailed to India in 1886 and served in the Sikh regiment and Punjab regiments.
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B company occupied all the posts vacated earlier by 7th Battalion, the Sikh Regiment.
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It was from this latter branch that the Sikh regiments of the Indian army were recruited.
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Tom went to the Sikh regiment.
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The Sikh regiment forced the rebel soldiers to retreat, and the bridge was completed without further interference.
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About 5000 soldiers belonging to the Sikh regiment mutinied after the storming of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army in 1984.
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Incidentally this regiment later was merged into the Sikh regiment of the Indian Army which was raised by Devinder Singh's great grandfather.
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The first commandant was Lt Col H . L . Houghton of the Sikh Regiment who took charge of the college on 22 February 1922.
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As such they were preferentially recruited to the British armed forces as part of the Sikh Regiment, which quickly became the most decorated regiment in the Empire.
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It also brought all the weapons left behind by 7th Battalion, The Sikh Regiment including 3 inch mortars and medium machine guns and were handed over to them.