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225th Anniversary of 8th Battalion of Coast Sepoys, 1986 stamp

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Commemorative Stamp
17 October 1986

225th Anniversary of 8th Battalion of Coast Sepoys

A paratrooper, for India’s oldest battalion.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue October 17, 1986

Denomination Rs. 3

Quantity printed 1500000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13 x 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Credit Nenu Baggar

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1064 Stamp Number IN 1127 Yvert et Tellier IN 879 Stanley Gibbons IN 1199

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Military Forces, Parachute Jumping

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A paratrooper descending under a canopy, with the regimental badges and the words “1 Para (Commando) 1761–1986” in Hindi and English, on a ₹3 stamp.

1 Para (Commando)

India Post issued this ₹3 stamp on 17 October 1986. The First Battalion, the Parachute Regiment, the eldest battalion of the Army, was raised as the 8th Battalion of Coast Sepoys by Captain Cooke at Trichinopoly in 1761. It served in Ceylon in 1795 and three times in Burma, in the siege of Kut al Amara in the First World War, and in Italy in the Second. It was flown to Srinagar in October 1947.