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The '''2nd Derajat Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)''' was an artillery battery in the [[British Indian Army]]. The battery was raised in 1851, from disbanded [[Sikh]] artillerymen following the [[Second Sikh War]].

In 1857, one detachment saw service against mutineers in [[Oudh]] and [[Bundlekand]] in the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]. The [[Second Afghan War]] (1878–80) saw the Derajat Mountain Battery serve with [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|General Roberts]] throughout the war, and were present at the battles of [[Battle of Peiwar Kotal|Peiwar Kotal]] and [[Battle of Charasiab|Charasiab]], the [[siege of the Sherpur Cantonment]] at [[Kabul]], and then on the march to south Afghanistan and the [[Battle of Kandahar (1880)|Battle of Kandahar]]. After the war, in addition to numerous minor Frontier campaigns, the 2nd took part in the 1895 [[Chitral Expedition]]. Two years later it took part in the operations of the [[Tirah Campaign]]. To honour the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to India, they took part in the [[Rawalpindi Parade 1905]].

In the [[First World War]], the 2nd in 1916 joined the [[Indian Expeditionary Force B]] in the campaign against the Germans in [[German East Africa]], where it would remain until the Armistice. After the war, the Battery saw service during the [[Third Afghan War]] of 1919, the [[Mohmand and Bajaur Operations (1933)]], [[Mohmand Campaign (1935)]] and [[ Waziristan campaign (1936–1939)|operations in Waziristan]] against the [[Fakir of Ipi]] from 1936. In [[World War II]] they were part of the force sent to the [[East African Campaign (World War II)|East African Campaign]].

On the partition of India in 1947, the battery was allocated to the new [[Indian Army]].

==References==
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*{{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}}

[[Category:British Indian Army regiments]]
[[Category:Indian World War I regiments]]
[[Category:Indian World War II regiments]]
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1851]]
[[Category:Artillery units and formations]]
[[Category:1851 establishments in India]]

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