Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, November 10

Fourth Battalion of the Rajput Regiment, one of Army’s oldest and most illustrious infantry units, is marking 200 years of its existence from November 11-14 at its location in the Western Sector.Also known as the “Fighting Fourth”, it has the distinction of having taken part in almost every operation or war ever since its raising in 1815. The battalion began its long march from Danapur in Bihar as the 1/30th Regiment of the Bengal Native Infantry in East India Company.A host of regimental and social events are being organsied to commemorate the occasion. On February 10, 1845, as part of the 7th Brigade of the 3rd Division, the battalion charged into enemy entrenchment at Sobraon in Punjab and captured it using only bayonets and in the process received its first Battle Honour ‘Sobraon’.