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|colors=Red; faced black, 1882 yellow<br />
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|battles=[[Third Anglo-Maratha War]]<br>[[Fourth Anglo-Mysore War]]<br>[[Second Burmese War]]<br>[[Boxer Rebellion]]<br>[[World War I]]<br />
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The '''88th Carnatic Infantry''' were an infantry regiment of the [[British Indian Army]]. They could trace their origins to 1798, when they were raised as the 2nd Battalion, [[87th Punjabis|14th Madras Native Infantry]].<br />
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The regiment's first action was in the [[Battle of Panchgaon|Siege of Nagpore]] followed by the [[Battle of Mahidpur]] during the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]]. They were involved in the [[First Burmese War]] (1823–26) and in 1900, they were part of the relief force in the [[Boxer Rebellion]] in China. During [[World War I]] they were attached to the [[9th (Secunderabad) Division]] which remained in India on internal security and training duties. Later they took part in the [[Mesopotamia Campaign]] and took part in the fighting in [[Kurdistan]] in 1919.<ref>Sharma, p.52</ref> A second battalion was raised during the war, it was disbanded in 1921.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Lords Hansard|access-date=2009-09-28|title=Army reductions|url=http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1921/apr/13/army-reductions}}</ref><br />
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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 88th Carnatic Infantry was one of the nine remaining single battalion regiments and was disbanded.<br />
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==Predecessor names==<br />
*2nd Battalion, 14th Madras Native Infantry – 1798<br />
*28th Madras Native Infantry – 1824<br />
*28th Madras Infantry – 1885<br />
*88th Carnatic Infantry – 1903<br />
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==References==<br />
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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}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Rinaldi|first=Richard A|year=2008|title=Order of Battle British Army 1914|publisher=Ravi Rikhye|isbn=0-9776072-8-3}}<br />
*{{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}}<br />
*{{cite book|last=Sumner|first=Ian|title=The Indian Army 1914–1947|year=2001|publisher=Osprey Publishing|isbn=1-84176-196-6}}<br />
*Moberly, F.J. (1923). ''Official History of the War: Mesopotamia Campaign'', Imperial War Museum. {{ISBN|1-870423-30-5}}<br />
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[[Category:British Indian Army infantry regiments]]<br />
[[Category:Military history of the Madras Presidency]]<br />
[[Category:Military units and formations established in 1798]]<br />
[[Category:Military units and formations disestablished in 1922]]<br />
[[Category:Military units and formations of the Boxer Rebellion]]<br />
[[Category:Indian World War I regiments]]<br />
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