| Army Organisation > 4th (Quetta) Division, Order of Battle | |
| A Division of the Indian Army | |
| History | Units | Commanders | |
| Summary history of the division | |
Headquartered
in Quetta and manning stations at Chaman, Fort Sandeman, Jacobabad,
Loralai, Manora, Hyderabad and others, the Division remained
in the area throughout the war. It mobilised in part for action
on the North West Frontier on several occasions during the period
of
the Great War. The Division was part of the Southern Army, later
called
Southern Command. From January 1918, the Division came directly
under teh control of Army HQ while the constituent Karachi Brigade
remained under Southern Command. In 1919, the Division mobilised
for operations in Afghanistan. Typical of all
Indian
Army
formations,
it contained
a mixture of British units (originally Regulars,
later Territorials in addition) and Indian
ones. Unlike British Divisions it contained a mixture of cavalry
and infantry components. |
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| A force under command of 2nd Quetta Brigade was maintained in western Baluchistan to suppress arms traffic to the frontier. In July 1915 the force was expanded and titled the East Persia Cordon. In March 1916 it was renamed the Seistan Force. It became the lines of communication force when the Malleson Mission was sent to the Trans-Caspian after the revolution in Russia in 1917. The last troops left Trans-Caspia in March 1920. Units that played a part are noted with an asterisk on this page: example 28th Light Cavalry*. | |
| Order of Battle | |
| Cavalry and mobile units | |
| 28th Light Cavalry* | left by October 1915, two squadrons rejoined March 1917 |
| 22nd Cavalry | left for 9th (Secunderabad) Division October 1914 |
| 10th Lancers | left for Mesopotamia in September 1916 |
| 3rd Gwalior Lancers | joined by July 1915, left October 1917 |
| 8th Armoured Motor Unit | formed in Quetta in July 1915, renamed Battery in 1917 |
| 16th Lancers | joined by October 1916, left October 1917 |
| 3rd Horse | joined by October 1917 |
| Alwar Lancers | joined by November 1917, became 46th Cavalry in August 1918 |
| 19th Motor Machine Gun Battery | joined by January 1918 |
| 12th Mounted Brigade | formed in June 1918, consisting of... |
| 40th Cavalry | formed in April 1918 |
| 41st Cavalry | formed in April 1918 |
| 42nd Cavalry | formed in April 1918 |
| 13th Mounted Brigade | formed in September 1918, consisting of... |
| 43rd Cavalry | |
| 44th Cavalry | |
| 45th Cavalry | |
| Infantry | |
| 10th (1st (Quetta)) Brigade | |
| 2nd Somerset Light Infantry | left for Peshawar Division in December 1917 |
| 12th Pioneers | left for 2nd Quetta Brigade in October 1915 |
| 19th Punjabis* | left by February 1916 |
| 124th Baluchis* | left in March 1916 |
| 126th Baluchis* | left in September 1914 |
| 1/7th Ghurka Rifles* | detached September-December 1914; detached to Persia LoC July-October 1917; left November 1917 |
| 2/7th Ghurka Rifles | left in October 1914 |
| 2/4th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry | joined from Karachi Brigade in April 1915, left October 1915 |
| 2/19th Punjabis | formed January 1916, left December 1916 |
| 1/39th Gharwal Rifles | joined from Meerut Division December 1916, moved to 2nd Quetta Brigade February 1917 |
| 3/7th Ghurka Rifles | formed in June 1917, left Januray 1918 |
| 2/10th Ghurka Rifles | joined September 1917, left February 1918 |
| 2nd King's (Liverpool) | joined from Peshawar Division in December 1917 |
| 1/5th Light Infantry | joined from East Africa in February 1918 |
| 2/56th Rifles | joined from Lahore Division in February 1918 |
| 11th (2nd (Quetta)) Brigade | |
| 1st South Lancashire | |
| 2nd Royal Irish Fusiliers | left for England September 1914 |
| 67th Punjabis | left August 1914 |
| 106th Pioneers* | moved to Peshawar Division in April 1917 |
| 2/4th Hampshire Regiment | joined from England in January 1915, left April 1917 for 75th Division |
| 12th Pioneers | joined from 1st Quetta Brigade in October 1915, to Peshawar Division in February 1916 |
| 1/39th Gharwal Rifles | joined from 1st Quetta Brigade February 1917, left December 1917 |
| 1st (Garrison) Bn, Norfolk Regiment | joined April 1917 |
| 98th Infantry* | joined July 1917 |
| 1/4th Ghurka Rifles | joined May 1918 |
| Karachi Brigade | became an independent Brigade in June 1917 |
| 1st Lancashire Fusiliers | left September 1914 |
| 127th Baluchis | left in April 1916 |
| 29th Punjabis | left August 1914 for East Africa |
| 2/4th Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry | joined January 1915, moved to 1st Quetta Brigade in April 1915 |
| 1st (Garrison) Bn, Norfolk Regiment | joined December 1915, moved to 2nd Quetta Brigade in April 1917 |
| 16th Rajputs | joined in April 1916, left in December 1916 for Persia |
| 24th Punjabis | reformed (the original battalion having been captured at Kut-al-Amara) in September 1916, left in December 1916 |
| 2/19th Punjabis | joined from 1st Quetta Brigade in January 1917, left in April 1917 |
| 2nd Reserve Mahratta Battalion | joined March 1917. Became 110th and 117th Mahrattas and left in June 1917 |
| 2nd (Garrison) Bn, Bedfordshire Regiment | joined May 1917 |
| 49th Bengalis | joined July 1917, left in October 1917 for Mesopotamia |
| 3/124th Baluchis | two companies formed August 1917, left March 1918 to Persia |
| Nawanagar Lancers | joined October 1917 |
| 1/4th Ghurka Rifles | joined November 1917, left March 1918 |
| 1/129th Baluchis | joined from East Africa in January 1918, left for 3rd (Quetta) Brigade in April 1918 |
| 2/15th Sikhs | formed June 1918 |
| 2/5th Light Infantry | joined October 1918 |
| 2/130th Baluchis | formed October 1918 |
| 3rd (Quetta) Brigade | formed in April 1918, renamed 57th Brigade in July 1918 |
| 1/4th Royal West Kent | joined February 1918 |
| 1/127th Baluchis | joined from East Africa in March 1918, left in September 1918 |
| 1/129th Baluchis | joined from 2nd (Quetta) Brigade in April 1918 |
| 2/119th Infantry | joined in August 1918 |
| Unbrigaded infantry | |
| 58th Rifles | left for Meerut Division in September 1914 |
| 31st Punjabis | left December 1915 for Mesopotamia |
| 15th Sikhs | left for Lahore Division in September 1914 |
| 67th Punjabis | joined from 2nd (Quetta) Brigade August 1914, left March 1915 |
| 1/7th Ghurka Rifles | detached from 1st (Quetta) Brigade September-December 1914 |
| 126th Baluchis | detached from 1st (Quetta) Brigade in September 1914, left in October 1914 for Egypt |
| 43rd Erinpura Regiment | joined October 1914, left July 1915 |
| 2/67th Punjabis | formed March 1915, left February 1917 |
| 42nd Deoli Regiment | joined July 1915, left February 1917 |
| 84th Punjabis | joined November 1915. left March 1917 for Mesopotamia |
| 107th Pioneers | joined from Meerut Division in October 1916, detacehed February-May 1918, left in October 1918 for Persia |
| 2/19th Punjabis | joined from 1st (Quetta) Brigade in January 1917, left March 1918 for 60th Division |
| 76th Punjabis | joined in March 1917, left February 1918 |
| 2/42nd Deoli Regiment | joined in October 1917, left in May 1918 for 10th (Irish) Division |
| 3/7th Ghurka Rifles | joined from 1st (Quetta) Brigade in January 1918 |
| 2/129th Baluchis | formed in January 1918 |
| 2/5th Light Infantry | formed in August 1918, left in October 1918 for Karachi Brigade |
| 2/10th Ghurka Rifles | joined from 1st (Quetta) Brigade in February 1918 |
| 3/1st Ghurka Rifles | joined in March 1918 |
| 12th Pioneers | joined in March 1918, left for Peshawar Division in May 1918 |
| 2/11th Rajputs | joined in October 1918 |
| 110th Mahrattas | two companies joined in February 1918, rejoined rest of battalion and joined 53rd (Welsh) Division in June 1918 |
| 1/4th Ghurka Rifles | joined in March 1918, left for 2nd (Quetta) Brigade in May 1918 |
| 81st Pioneers | attached in March-May 1918 from Peshawar Division |
| 55th Rifles | joined from East Africa in March 1918, left May 1918 |
| Artillery | |
| XXI Brigade RFA | based at Hyderabad, originally consisting of 101, 102 and 103 Batteries. 103 left in December 1914. 101 left in December 1917. 1107 (How.) Battery - formerly C/CCXXXVIII (2/3/Devon) - joined April 1917. |
| IV Mountain Brigade RGA | based at Quetta, originally consisting of 3, 8 and 4 Mountain Batteries. 8 left in December 1914. 4 Battery joined in December 1916. |
| 60 Company RGA | became 60th Heavy Battery in November 1914 |
| 69 Company RGA | left in June 1916 for Aden |
| 101 Heavy Battery RGA | under command of Karachi Brigade from June 1917 |
| 72 Heavy Battery RGA | joined in November 1914, left November 1915 |
| 25 Mountain Battery | joined in November 1915, left March 1918 |
| 1 Kashmir Battery | attached October-December 1915, joied in October 1918 |
| 70 Company RGA | joined in June 1916, under command of Karachi Brigade from June 1917 |
| 23 Mountain Battery | joined in March 1918 |
| 33 Reserve Mountain Battery | attached June-August 1918 |
| Other units under Divisional command | |
| 261 Company MGC | formed June 1917, left December 1917 |
| 270 Company MGC | formed December 1917 |
| Engineers | |
| 18/3rd Company Sappers & Miners | left in January 1915 |
| 19/3rd Company Sappers & Miners | left in January 1915 |
| 9/2nd Company Sappers & Miners | joined in December 1914, left May 1917 |
| 14/2nd Company Sappers & Miners | joined in December 1914, left January 1918 |
| 24/3rd Company Sappers & Miners | joined in June 1917, left June 1918 |
| 71/3rd Company Sappers & Miners | joined in January 1918 |
| 73/3rd Company Sappers & Miners | joined in June 1918 |
| Divisional command | |
| Lieutenant General Sir M. Grover | from 17 November 1912 |
| Major General R. Wapshare | from East Africa 22 November 1916. Promoted Lieutenant General 15 June 1918 |