page_title: Sikh Regiment
section_title: Battle honours
hierarchical_section_title: Sikh Regiment / Battle honours and theatre honours / Battle honours
caption_attribution_description: A Sikh soldier of the 4th Division (the Red Eagles) of the Indian Army, attached to the British Fifth Army in Italy. Holding a captured swastika after the surrender of German forces in Italy, May 1945. Behind him, a fascist inscriptions says "VIVA IL DUCE", "Long live the Duce" (i.e. Mussolini).
context_page_description: The Sikh Regiment is an infantry regiment of the Indian Army that recruits from the Sikh community. It is the most decorated regiment of the Indian Army and in 1979, the 1st battalion was the Commonwealth's most decorated battalion with 245 pre-independence and 82 post-independence gallantry awards, when it was transformed into the 4th battalion, Mechanised Infantry Regiment. The first battalion of the regiment was officially raised just before the annexation of the Sikh Empire on August 1 1846, by the British East India Company. Currently, the Sikh Regimental Centre is located in Ramgarh Cantonment, Jharkhand. The Centre was earlier located in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh.
  The modern Sikh Regiment traces its roots directly from the 11th Sikh Regiment of the British Indian Army. When transferred to the Indian Army like its sister regiments, the numeral prefix was removed and extra battalions were raised, transferred or disbanded to meet army needs. With a humble beginning of two battalions, today the fraternity has grown to a regiment of 19 regular infantry and two reserve battalions strong.
context_section_description: Pre-Independence
  Lucknow 1857-58, 1 Sikh
  Arrah 1857, 3 Sikh
  Bihar 1857, 3 Sikh
  China 1860-62, 2 Sikh
  Ali Masjid 1878, 1 & 3 Sikh
  Ahmed Khel 1880, 2 Sikh
  Afghanistan 1878-79, 1 Sikh
  Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 & 3 Sikh
  Kandahar 1880, 2 Sikh
  Suakin 1885, 2 Sikh
  Tofrek 1885, 2 Sikh
  Manipur 1891, 4 Sikh
  Chitral 1895, 1 & 2 Sikh
  Samana 1897, 4 Sikh
  Saragarhi/Gulistan 1897, 36 Sikh
  Punjab Frontier 1897, 2, 3, 4 & 35 Sikh (SRC)
  Malakand 1897, 3 & 35 Sikh (SRC)
  Tirah 1897-98, 2 & 4 Sikh
  China 1900, 1 Sikh
  North-West Frontier 1908, 3 Sikh
  World War I
  La Bassée 1914, 2 & 5 Sikh
  St-Julien	1914, 2 & 5 Sikh
  Armentières	1914-15, 5 Sikh
  Auber 1914, 2 & 5 Sikh
  Givens 1914, 4 Sikh
  Tsingtao 1914, 4 & 5 Sikh
  Neuve Chapelle 1914-15, 2, 3 & 5 Sikh
  France and Flanders 1914-15, 2 & 5 Sikh
  Suez Canal 1914-15, 1 Sikh
  Festubert 1915, 2 Sikh
  Tigris 1916, 3 & 5 Sikh
  Pyres 1915, 2 & 4 Sikh
  Sari Bair 1915, 1 Sikh
  Helles 1915, 1 Sikh
  Krishna 1915, 1 Sikh
  Suva 1915, 1 Sikh
  Gallipoli 1915, 1 Sikh
  Egypt 1915, 1 Sikh
  Mesopotamia 1916-18, 1, 3 & 4 Sikh
  Sharon 1918, 2 & 5 Sikh
  Palestine 1918, 5 Sikh
  Baghdad 1916-18, 5 Sikh
  Kut 1917, 1, 3 & 5 Sikh
  Hai 1917, 3 & 4 Sikh
  Megiddo 1918, 5 Sikh
  Persia 1918, 4 Sikh
  Egypt 1918, 2 & 3 Sikh
  Inter-War years
  North-West Frontier 1918-19, 5 Sikh
  Afghanistan 1919, 2 Sikh
  Palestine 1921, 5 Sikh
  Second World War
  Agordat 1940-41, 4 Sikh
  Keren 1941, 4 Sikh
  El Alamein 1940-43, 4 Sikh
  Omars 1941, 4 Sikh
  Kuantan 1941-42, 5 Sikh
  Niyor Kluang 1941-42, 5 Sikh
  Mersa Matruh 1941-42, 2 Sikh
  Kota Bharu 1942, 5 Sikh
  North Arakan 1942-45, 1 Sikh
  Buthidaung 1942-45, 1 Sikh
  Coriano 1943-45, 2 Sikh
  San Marino 1943-45, 2 Sikh
  Poggio San Giovanni 1943-45, 2 Sikh
  Monte Calvo 1943-45, 4 Sikh
  Kangla Tongbi 1944, 1 Sikh
  Gothic Line 1943-45, 4 Sikh
  Nyaung U Bridgehead 1945, 1 Sikh
  Irrawaddy River 1945, 1 Sikh
  Shandatgyi 1945, 1 Sikh
  Kama 1945, 1 Sikh
  Sittang 1945, 1 Sikh
  Post-Independence
  Srinagar 1947, 1 Sikh
  Tithwal 1948,	1 Sikh
  Raja Picquet 1965, 2 Sikh
  Burki 1965, 4 Sikh
  Op Hill 1965, 7 Sikh
  Siramani 1971, 4 Sikh
  Poonch 1971, 6 Sikh
  Purbat Ali 1971, 10 Sikh
  Tiger Hill 1999, 8 Sikh
caption: A Sikh soldier with the flag of Nazi Germany after German surrender during World War II.
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