TEJ KAUR JI

There were unknown SIKH WOMEN TOO JOINED JHANSI RANI REGIMENT ON THE CALL OF NETAJI. 

 TEJ KAUR JI OF JHANSI RANI REGIMENT OF AZAD HIND FAUZ , FORMED BY NETAJI . She received training of how to use  Rifles and Guns in the battlefields.  She underwent military and combat training with drills, route marches as well as weapons training in rifles, hand grenades, and bayonet charges.. 

Sikh women, too, answered the call to fight for Indian Independence and joined the force. They came from the Straits Settlements, Malaya and some came from Siam, Shanghai etc .

The unit was raised in July 1943 with volunteers from the expatriate Indian population in Southeast Asia.The unit was named the "Rani Jhansi Regiment" after Rani Lakshmi Bai, Rani of Jhans, a renowned Indian queen and freedom fighter.

The women  wore khaki uniform like the men. It was found that the ordinary Lee-Enfield 303 rifle was rather too big for them (most of the women belonged to South India), so it was arranged to obtain either the Ross pattern (Canadian) or the Dutch type of rifle, as was used in Indonesia. These were lighter and shorter but these had one disadvantage—the bayonet could not be fixed on many of these types of rifles; so instead of bayonets they carried short swords.