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| unit_name = 104th Wellesley's Rifles
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| caption = A depiction of a subadar-major of the 104th Wellesley's Rifles (second from left) amongst other British Indian Army troops
| dates = 1775-1922
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*[[Battle of Ctesiphon (1915)|Battle of Ctesiphon]]
*[[Siege of Kut]]
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The '''104th Wellesley's Rifles''' were an infantry regiment of the [[British Indian Army]]. They could trace their origins to 1775, when they were raised as the 5th Battalion, Bombay Sepoys and presently its designation is 3 Guards (1 Rajputana Rifles) of Indian Army.

The regiments first action was during the [[Mysore (1789-91)|Mysore Campaign]] in the [[Third Anglo-Mysore War]]. This was followed by their participation in the [[Battle of Seringapatam]] in the [[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]]. They were next called to serve in the [[Beni Boo Alli (1821) (Battle honour)|Beni Boo Ali campaign]] in 1821, against the [[pirates]] in Eastern [[Arabia]] and the [[Persian Gulf]] region. Returning to India they took part in the [[Siege of Multan]] during the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]]. They were next involved in the [[Anglo-Persian War]] in 1856, followed the next year by the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]] taking part in the [[Central India Campaign (1858)|Central India Campaign]].

Twenty years were to pass until their next action in the [[Battle of Kandahar (1880)|Battle of Kandahar]] during the [[Second Afghan War]]. They were also in [[East Africa]] during the [[Sudan Campaign]]. During [[World War I]] they were in the [[6th (Poona) Division]] during the [[Mesopotamia Campaign]].
After a string of early successes particularly during the [[Battle of Es Sinn]], the 6th Division was defeated at the [[Battle of Ctesiphon (1915)|Battle of Ctesiphon]] in November 1915. Following this engagement, the division withdrew to [[Kut]] and [[Siege of Kut]] began. After a lengthy siege all they surrendered in April 1916.<ref>See Gardner, Nikolas. 2004 'Sepoys and the Siege of Kut-Al-Amara, December 1915-April 1916', ''War in History'' (journal) 11(3), pp. 307-326</ref>

After World War I the Indian government reformed the army moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments.<ref>Sumner p. 15</ref> In 1922, the 104th Wellesley's Rifles became the 1st Battalion [[6th Rajputana Rifles]].{{cn|date=November 2011}} After independence they were one of the regiments allocated to the [[Indian Army]].{{cn|date=November 2011}}

==Predecessor names==
*5th Battalion, Bombay Sepoys - 1775
*9th Battalion, Bombay Sepoys - 1778
*2nd Battalion, 2nd Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry - 1796
*4th Bombay Native Infantry - 1824
*4th Bombay Infantry (or Rifle Corps) - 1885
*4th (1st Battalion Rifle Corps) Bombay Infantry - 1889
*4th Bombay Rifles - 1901
*104th Wellesley's Rifles - 1903

==Successor Names==
*1st Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles-1921
*1st Battalion Rajputana Rifles-1945
*Allocated to India on Partition-1947
*3rd Battalion, Brigade of the Guards(1st Rajputana Rifles)-1949

==References==
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* https://www.amazon.in/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3AO+B+E+M+C+Lieut+Colonel+F+H+James

*{{cite book|last1=Barthorp|first1=Michael|last2=Burn|first2=Jeffrey|year=1979|title=Indian infantry regiments 1860-1914|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=0-85045-307-0}}
*{{cite book|last=Rinaldi|first=Richard A|year=2008|title=Order of Battle British Army 1914|publisher=Ravi Rikhye|isbn=978-0-9776072-8-0}}
*{{cite book|last=Sharma|first=Gautam|year=1990|title=Valour and sacrifice: famous regiments of the Indian Army|publisher=Allied Publishers|isbn=81-7023-140-X}}
*{{cite book|last=Sumner|first=Ian|title=The Indian Army 1914-1947|year=2001|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=1-84176-196-6}}
*Moberly, F.J. (1923). ''Official History of the War: Mesopotamia Campaign'', Imperial War Museum. {{ISBN|1-870423-30-5}}

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