diff --git a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/replication/TransportReplicationAction.java b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/replication/TransportReplicationAction.java
index ae107e95157..a8ee1677bbd 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/replication/TransportReplicationAction.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/action/support/replication/TransportReplicationAction.java
@@ -542,7 +542,7 @@ public abstract class TransportReplicationAction<
                             new TransportChannelResponseHandler<>(logger, channel, extraMessage,
                                 () -> TransportResponse.Empty.INSTANCE);
                         transportService.sendRequest(clusterService.localNode(), transportReplicaAction,
-                            new ConcreteShardRequest<>(request, targetAllocationID),
+                            new ConcreteReplicaRequest<>(request, targetAllocationID, globalCheckpoint),
                             handler);
                     }