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{{Infobox military unit
|unit_name=17th Infantry (The Loyal Regiment)
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|dates=1858-1922
|country=[[British Raj|Indian Empire]]
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|command_structure=[[Bengal Army]] (to 1895)<br />[[Bengal Command]]
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|ceremonial_chief=[[Edward VII]] (1904)
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|colors=Red; faced white
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|battles=1878–80 Afghanistan<br />1885 Suakin<br /> Tofrek
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The '''17th Infantry (The Loyal Regiment)''' was an infantry regiment of the [[Bengal Army]], later of the united [[British Indian Army]]. It was formed at [[Phillaur|Phillour]] in 1858 by [[Major]] J. C. Innes from men of the 3rd, 36th and 61st [[Bengal Native Infantry]] regiments who remained loyal to the [[British East India Company]]<ref>{{cite book|first=Miachael|last=Barthorp|page=[https://archive.org/details/indianinfantryre00bart/page/n19 19]|title=Indian Infantry Regiments 1860-1914|year=1979|url=https://archive.org/details/indianinfantryre00bart|url-access=limited|ISBN=0-85045-307-0}}</ref> during the [[Indian Mutiny]], and designated ''The Loyal Purbiah Regiment''.<ref name=QIALjan19p1086>''Quarterly Indian Army List January'' 1919, p. 1086</ref>

It was subsequently re-designated as follows:-

*17th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry – 1861
*17th (The Loyal Purbiah) Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry – 1864
*17th (The Loyal Purbiah) Regiment of Bengal Infantry –1885
*17th (The Loyal Regiment) of Bengal Infantry – 1898
*17th Musalman Rajput Infantry (The Loyal Regiment) – 1902

Its final designation came in 1903 with the [[Kitchener Reforms|Kitchener reforms]] of the Indian Army.<ref name=QIALjan19p1086/>

The regiment took part in the [[Second Anglo-Afghan War]], the [[Battle of Tofrek]] the siege of [[Suakin]] in the [[Sudan Campaign]] and [[World War I]]. During World War I they were part of the [[22nd (Lucknow) Brigade]], first attached to the [[8th Lucknow Division]] in India on internal security duties the brigade was then transferred to Egypt as part of the [[11th Indian Division]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/17thloyal.htm |title=Armed Forces: Units: Indian Infantry: 17th The Loyal Regiment |publisher=British Empire |date= |accessdate=2014-02-13}}</ref>

After World War I the infantry of the Indian Army was restructured by the mass amalgamation of single battalion units into a smaller number of multi-battalion regiments. The 17th Infantry was one of nine regiments disbanded in 1922, as a result of this reform.<ref>Sumner p .15</ref>

==References==
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*{{cite book|last=Barthorp|first=Michael|last2=Burn|first2=Jeffrey|year=1979|title=Indian infantry regiments 1860-1914|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=0-85045-307-0}}
*''Quarterly Indian Army List January 1919'', Army Headquarters, India. Calcutta, 1919.
*{{cite book|last=Sumner|first=Ian|title=The Indian Army 1914-1947|year=2001|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=1-84176-196-6}}

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