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The '''24th Hazara Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)''' was an artillery battery of the [[British Indian Army]].
==Formation==
The battery was raised in 1851, at [[Haripur, Pakistan|Haripur]] in order to help defend the [[Hazara District]] of the [[North-West Frontier (military history)|North West Frontier]].
==Name changes==
The battery has gone through many name changes<ref name="List">{{cite book|last=|first=|title=The Quarterly Indian Army List for October 1933|publisher=Army Headquarters, India|date=1933|page=283}}</ref> -
*Hazara Mountain Train
*In 1856, Hazara Mountain Train Battery, Punjab Irregular Force
*In 1865, Hazara Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
*In 1876, No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force
*In 1901, Hazara Mountain Battery
*In 1903, 24th Hazara Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)
*In 1920, 24th Hazara Pack Battery (Frontier Force)
*In 1921, 104th (Hazara) Pack Battery (Frontier Force)
*In 1927, 4th (Hazara) Mountain Battery (Frontier Force)
*In 1932, 4th (Hazara) Mountain Battery, R.A., F.F.
==History==
[[Image:RML7pounderMountanGunHazaraBattery1895.jpg|thumb|250px|Photograph, circa 1895 showing a 7pdr Mountain gun of Hazara Battery in [[Hazara, Pakistan|Hazara]] listing the crew's ranks in the caption.]]
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]] in Kabul, 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]]. It was at Hunza during the [[Hunza–Nagar Campaign|campaign in 1891]]. 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]].<ref name="Mountain">{{cite book|last=Graham|first=Brigadier General C.A.L.|title=The history of the Indian Mountain Artillery|publisher=Gale and Polden Ltd|year=1957|page=}}</ref>

During [[World War I]], the 4th left India in 1917, for [[East Africa]] where it would remain until the Armistice. Between the wars, the Battery saw service in the [[Third Afghan War]] of 1919, the [[Afridi Redshirt Rebellion, Indian North West Frontier 1930–1931|Afridi and Red Shirt Rebellion (1930–1)]], the [[Mohmand and Bajaur Operations (1933)]], and operations against the [[Fakir of Ipi]] in the [[Waziristan campaign 1936–1939]].<ref>{{cite book|last=India|first=Government of|title= Official History of Operations on the North-West Frontier of India 1920-1935|year=1935|publisher=Manager of Publications, Delhi}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=India|first=Government of|title=Official History of Operations on the N. W. Frontier of India 1936–37|year=1943|publisher=Manager of Publications, Delhi }}</ref>

It was deployed in 1939 as part of the [[22 Medium Regiment (India)|22nd Mountain Regiment]] for the [[Malayan campaign]] of [[World War II]]. It took part in the [[Battle of Jitra]] and the [[Battle of Singapore|Singapore]] and entered Japanese captivity with the rest of the garrison. Following the independence of India, the regiment was allotted to the [[Indian Army]].<ref name="Mountain"/> Shortly after it took part in the [[Indo-Pakistani War of 1947–1948]]. The battery was transferred to [[56 Field Regiment (India)|56 Mountain Composite Regiment (Pack)]] in April 1964.

==Battle honours==
The battery has the won the following battle honours<ref name="List"/>-
*[[Battle of Ali Masjid|Ali Masjid]]
*[[Second Anglo-Afghan War|Kabul, 1879]]
*[[Second Anglo-Afghan War|Afghanistan, 1878-80]]
*[[Third Anglo-Burmese War|Burma 1885–87]]
*[[Chitral Expedition|Chitral]]
*[[East African campaign (World War I)|E.Africa 1917-18]]
*[[Battle of Jitra|Jitra]]
==See also==
*[[22 Medium Regiment (India)|22 Medium Regiment]]
*[[56 Field Regiment (India)|56 Field Regiment]]
==Notes==
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==References==
*Moberly, F.J. (1923). ''Official History of the War: Mesopotamia Campaign'', Imperial War Museum. {{ISBN|1-870423-30-5}}
*{{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}}
==Further reading==
* {{cite web| title=The Historical Record of No. 4 (Hazara) Mountain Battery, Punjab Frontier Force, Punjab Government Press, Lahore, 1888|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278775/mode/2up|access-date=2022-01-08}}

[[Category:Artillery batteries]]
[[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 of British India]]
[[Category:Hazara military personnel]]
[[Category:1851 establishments in India]]

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