Role of the 1st Bihar Regiment (Indian Territorial Force) in the duties of railway protection and the guarding of the plant of the Tata Iron & Steel Company
In April 1940, one Company of the Hyderabad Regiment sent from Danapur to Ranchi proceeded to Jamshedpur. On 15 September 1941 an embodied Indian Territorial Force was raised in Jamshedpur by the 11 & 19th Hyderabad Regiment and named the ‘1st Bihar Regiment’ by the Commander Lt Col J.R.H. Tweed, MBE MC. The members were recruited from Champaran, Puri, Patna, Sahabad, Gaya, Shahabad Patna, Chaibasa, Ranchi and Palamu ...
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