XVI Corps (India)

The XVI Corps, or the White Knight Corps, is an army corps of the Indian Army raised on 1 June 1972 with Lieutenant General J F R Jacob as its first General Officer Commanding (GOC). It has its headquarters at Nagrota Cantonment, (Jammu district), Jammu and Kashmir. In 2005, IX Corps was raised in southern part of the XVI Corps' area, taking over two of its divisions.

Order of battle

The corps is reported to include

• 10th Infantry Division (RAPID) (Crossed Swords Division), headquartered at Akhnoor
• 25 Infantry Division (Ace of Spades Division), headquartered at Rajouri
• 39 Infantry Division (Dah Division), headquartered at Palampur, Himachal Pradesh
• One Bhairav Light Commando Battalion
• Delta Force and Romeo Force of the Rashtriya Rifles come under the operational control of the corps.

Its current General Officer Commanding is Lieutenant General PK Mishra.

List of commanders

References

Further reading

• Richard A. Renaldi and Ravi Rikhe, Indian Army Order of Battle, Orbat.com for Tiger Lily Books: A division of General Data LLC, , 2011.

External links

• Globalsecurity.org, Nagrota Corps / XVI Corps / White Knight Corps, accessed July 2010
• Official twitter handle