About this stamp
A Hundred Years of 3 Kumaon (Rifles)
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 23 October 2017, the battalion’s hundredth raising day, for 3 Kumaon (Rifles). It was raised on 23 October 1917 at Sitoli near Almora, in today’s Uttarakhand, as the first Kumaoni battalion of the British Indian Army; until then Kumaonis had joined state forces and irregular units.
A Century of Service
The battalion has fought in most of the wars and campaigns before and after independence: the First World War, the North-West Frontier, the Second World War, the war with China in 1962 and the wars with Pakistan in 1948, 1965 and 1971. It has served in counter-insurgency, counter-terrorism and high-altitude operations, and from 3 April 2012 to 1 August 2013 with the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUSCO), where it won the Force Commander’s Unit Citation. Its honours include a Battle Honour, a Theatre Honour and two Chief of the Army Staff Unit Citations.
The stamp was designed by Kamleshwar Singh; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 601,200.
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