e/24th Mountain Battery

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has gloss	eng: The 24th Hazara Mountain Battery (Frontier Force) was a artillery battery of the British Indian Army. The battery was raised in 1851, at Haripur in order to help defend the Hazara District of the North West Frontier. The 4th soon saw action in numerous small campaigns on the North West Frontier. In 1878, the 4th took part in the Second Afghan War at the Battle of Ali Masjid, and later took part in the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment, where it remained as part of the garrison when the rest of the force marched on Kandahar. In 1885, the Battery took part in the Second Burmese War. In 1895, the Battery was back fighting on the Frontier as part of the Chitral Expedition.To honour the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Indian they took part in the Rawalpindi Parade 1905. During World War I, the 4th left India in 1917, for East Africa where it would remain until the Armistice.
lexicalization	eng: 24th Hazara Mountain Battery
lexicalization	eng: 24th Mountain Battery
lexicalization	eng: 24th
instance of	(noun) a unit that is part of some military service; "he sent Caesar a force of six thousand men" military unit, force, military force, military group

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