can anyone give anygive me information about th 37India Corps?

Question

Sorry I made an error on correspondencebetween my parents its 34India corps and on some other letters address is special force which I presume is the Chindtis

Answer 1

This might help

http://www.burmastar.org.uk/36thdiv.htm

Answer 2

Currently can't find reference in my extensive library or on the net regarding 37th Indian Corps.
Put some more details of exactly what you're looking for??
Will keep looking!

There's a 37th Indian infantry Brigade which is mentioned in the above.

Answer 3

In 1857, the British were almost pushed out of India by the Great Mutiny in the Bengal Army. Sixty-four Bengal regiments mutinied or were pre-emptively disarmed. Two Bombay units were affected by the mutiny, but the Madras army was untouched. Loyal elements from mutineer regiments and other Europeans and Indians were hastily formed into irregular forces to help combat the mutiny.

When the British regained control in 1859, the Crown assumed direct control of local forces from the East India Company, and merged its European regiments directly into the British Army. The British also learned not to put field artillery in the hands of natives, a policy which was not reversed in India until 1935.

It is generally regarded that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914) of Austria in Serbia was the catalyst that precipitated the start of the First World War (1914-18).

Britain's involvement began on 4 August 1914 when Germany invaded neutral Belgium, and thereby forced Britain to declare war on the aggressor because Britain was one of the guarantors of Belgium's neutrality, an arrangement that had been in existence since the founding of that state in 1831.

At the outset of the war the British Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith (1852-1928) appointed as his Secretary of State for War the engineer officer Field Marshal Lord Kitchener (1850-1916). Kitchener predicted that the war was likely to be protracted therefore he saw a need for a large army to sustain it. After obtaining Cabinet approval he set about expanding the Army to over 70 divisions. The newly raised units were referred as to the New Army (or Kitchener’s Armies), and the first of them saw active service in 1915.

Throughout the war the British Army and the forces of the Empire fought on many fronts. By its own admission the British Army was ill-prepared for the war; this state came about as an after effect of the Esher Committee reforms (1904-05) and were made worse by the inability of the General Staff to give adequate guidance as to the type of warfare that the army of the twentieth century was likely to fight. The General Staff had no experience of Continental warfare and could only draw on their observations and experiences of the colonial wars of the past.

as for the 37th, there was a few..

1. the Dogras - a light infantry regiment was formed in 1887 as the 37th (Dogra) Regiment of Bengal Infantry. In 1901 it became the 37th Dogra Infantry, then simply the (1903) 37th Dogras
By 1922 it was called the 37th (Prince of Wales's Own) Dogras when on the 1st March it was united with 38th Dogras, and 41st Dogras, to form 1st Battalion, 17th Dogra Regiment.

2. The 37th Regt of Bengal Native Infantry were formed in 1799 but mutinied, so were not re-formed.

3. 37th Lancers (Baluch Horse). Originally formed on 21 Jan 1885, as the 7th Bombay Cavalry (Jacob-Ka-Rissallah), they soon became known as the (1886) Belooch Horse. In 1890 they changed thier name to the 7th Bombay Lancers and in 1903 to the 37th Lancers (Baluch Horse).. They were involved in the 1919 Afghan wars.In 1921 amalgamated with 17th Cavalry, to form 17th/37th Lancers.

India became a Republic in 1950, and its Army regiments erased royal connections from their names. In time the Indian Army grew to be the fourth largest in the world. Expansion was achieved largely by creating new numbered armour regiments and adding battalions to the existing infantry regiments. The cavalry regimental numbers representing the units which went to Pakistan were left vacant until the 1980s, and new regiments were initially created starting at 42nd in order to avoid any confusion with the pre-1922 regiments.