British Empire Regiments
- 1st Bangalore Pioneers (Colonel Sebastian Moran's old Indian Army regiment in The Adventure of the Empty House by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- 12th Gurkha Rifles (Colonel Arbuthnot's regiment in Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie)
- 12th Indian Lancers (Major Duncan Bleek's regiment in Terror by Night 1946 film Sherlock Holmes}).
- 19th/45th East African Rifles (Captain Blackadder's old colonial regiment before the war in Blackadder Goes Forth)
- 34th Bombay Infantry (Major John Sholto's regiment in The Sign of Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
- 77th Bengal Lancers (Tales of the 77th Bengal Lancers American TV show 1956-1957).
- Royal Vindhya Horse (Rodney Bateman's fathers regiment -and several others - in The Himalaya Concerto by John Masters)
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