Pakistan (Dominion) East Bengal Regiment. White metal 1st type cap badge. Circa 1948

Important: 1st Badge worn by the East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) infantry regiment that was raised in 1948. 1st pattern insignia worn 1948-1971

Complete with reverse loop fittings, and cotter pin

The regiment was raised in East Pakistan in February 1948, at Kurmitola in Dhaka in what was then East Pakistan from two Bengal Muslim Pioneer Corps (1256 and 1407) of the erstwhile British Indian Army Pioneer Corps. The regiment as it's Headquarters located at Chittagong Cantonment

At the time of the 1965 Indo-Pak War the regiment comprised 4 x battalions. The regiments 1st Battalion (referred to as 'The Senior Tigers), fought in West Pakistan during the 1965 Indo-Pak War, primarily in the Lahore & Sialkot sectors, including the 'Battle of Chawinda'. For their services, the men of the unit earned no less then 12 x gallantry decorations

During the 'War of Liberation', in East Pakistan 1971, all of the battalions of the East Bengal Regiment mutinied, with the mutineers forming the professionally trained backbone of the 'Liberation Army' or 'Mukkti Bahini' in their fight against the Pakistan Army. Following the creation of the state of Bangladesh in 1971, the East Bengal Regiment was reconstituted as the senior regiment of the Bangladesh Army. In the past 40 years numerous battalions and detachments form the East Bengal Regiment have served overseas as part of United Nations Missions and Peacekeeping Forces

A new designed cap badge was adopted after the conclusion of the War of Liberation

Condition: GVF

Code: 23454