The 83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry were an infantry regiment in the British Indian Army

British Indian Army

The British Indian Army, officially simply the Indian Army, was the principal army of the British Raj in India before the partition of India in 1947...

. They could trace their origins to 1794, when they were raised as the 33rd Madras Battalion.

They took part in the Battle of Seringapatam

Battle of Seringapatam

The Siege of Seringapatam was the final confrontation of the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War between the British East India Company and the Kingdom of Mysore. The British achieved a decisive victory after breaching the walls of the fortress at Seringapatam and storming the citadel. Tippu Sultan, Mysore's...

 during the Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

Fourth Anglo-Mysore War

The Fourth Anglo-Mysore War was a war in South India between the Sultanate of Mysore and the British East India Company under the Earl of Mornington....

 and the Second Burmese War.

After World War I the Indian government reformed the army, moving from single battalion regiments to multi battalion regiments. The 83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry now became the 4th Battalion, 3rd Madras Regiment

3rd Madras Regiment

The 3rd Madras Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army formed after the World War I reforms of the Indian Army. The infantry regiments were converted into large regiments with four or five battalions in each regiment plus a training battalion, always numbered the 10th The...

(Wallajahbad Light Infantry).

Previous names

• 33rd Battalion of Madras Native Infantry - 1794
• 1st Battalion, 12th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry - 1797
• 12th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry, or Wallajahbad Light Infantry - 1812
• 23rd Madras Native Infantry, or Wallajahbad Light Infantry - 1824
• 23rd (Wallajahbad) Regiment of Madras (Light) Infantry - 1885
• 23rd (Wallajahbad) Madras Light Infantry - 1901
• 83rd Wallajahbad Light Infantry - 1903