APS Cover Jan 2019 – Bicentenary – 16th Battalion The Madras Regiment
16th Battalion The Madras Regiment (Travancore) was raised as Second Travancore Nayar Infantry on 28 Jan 1819. It saw action in WW II in Persia and Iraq in 1944.The Battalion was integrated with Indian Army in Apr 1951 and in May 1954 re-designated as 16th Battalion The Madras Regiment. It won its first Gallantry medal in Cachar operations in 1958
APS issued a cover on 28 Jan 2019 to mark its Golden Jubilee.
Cover no 05/2019.
Stamp Digest 