British India (1922 - 47) Pakistan (1947 - present)
Branch
British Indian Army Pakistan Army
Type
Infantry
Motto(s)
Gazian-e-Dograi
Uniform
Red; faced green
Engagements
Indian Mutiny 1857-58 Tibet 1903-04 First World War 1914-18 Third Afghan War 1919
Commanders
Notable commanders
General Edward Dandridge
General Sir Frederick Campbell
Brig Sher Afghan
Lt. Col Azhar
Lt.Col Ashfaq Hassan
Lt.Col Muzafar
Military unit
The 40th Pathans were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1858 as the Shahjehanpur Levy. It was designated as the 40th Pathans in 1903 and became 5th Battalion (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment in 1922. In 1947, it was allocated to the Pakistan Army, where it continues to exist as 16th Battalion The Punjab Regiment.[1][2]
^Rizvi, Brig SHA. (1984). Veteran Campaigners – A History of the Punjab Regiment 1759-1981. Lahore: Wajidalis.
^Waters, Maj RS. (1936). History of the 5th Battalion (Pathans), 14th Punjab Regiment formerly 40th Pathans ("The Forty Thieves”). London: James Bain Ltd.
Shahjehanpur Levy. It was designated as the 40th Pathans in 1903 and became 5th Battalion (Pathans) 14th Punjab Regiment in 1922. In 1947, it was allocated...
Punjabis to suppress the Boxer Rebellion. The 40thPathans, who were for some time an exclusively Pathan unit, were sent to Tibet in 1904 as reinforcements...
Pathans in India or simply known as Pathans are citizens or residents of the Indian Republic who are of ethnic Pashtun ancestry. "Pathan" is the local...
camp followers. This force consisted of elements of the 8th Gurkhas, 40thPathans, 23rd and 32nd Sikh Pioneers, 19th Punjab Infantry and the Royal Fusiliers...
exhaustion in Mwelo Mdogo, British East Africa before his unit (the 40thPathans) was able to engage the enemy forces. He is buried at St Erth in a plot...
view that saw the entire region as one. In 1916 Captain T. C. Fowle, 40thPathans (troops of British India), wrote of a trip he had taken from Karachi...
(Reserve) Brigade. 1st Royal Munster Fusiliers 21st Punjabis 22nd Punjabis 40thPathans Sections A and B, No. 7 British Field Hospital. No. 112 Native Field...
Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis) 21st Punjabis 40thPathans 8th (Ferozepore) Infantry Brigade - Brigadier General H.A. Abbott 1st...
officer in the 40thPathans of the British Indian Army. On 12 December 1915, Second Lieutenant Edward Dawson Atkinson of the 40thPathans was awarded Royal...
forces. When it was introduced it came into ethnically Sikh, Gorkha, and Pathan regiments in the late 19th century. The first fully Sikh pipe band was established...
the 24th Punjabis with the 19th, 20th, 21st and 22nd Punjabis, and the 40thPathans. The battalion's new designation was 4th Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment...
the 19th Punjabis with the 20th, 21st, 22nd and 24th Punjabis, and the 40thPathans. The battalion's new designation was 1st Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment...
Punjabis were grouped with the 19th, 20th, 22nd and 24th Punjabis, and the 40thPathans to form the 14th Punjab Regiment in 1922. The battalion was redesignated...
October 1944. Transferring to the Bengal Sappers, he was attached to the 40thPathans in 1945–1946. He further qualified as a paratrooper and following Indian...
The Pathan Regiment was an infantry regiment of the Pakistan Army now merged into Frontier Force Regiment. It was raised after the independence of Pakistan...
the 22nd Punjabis with the 19th, 20th, 21st and 24th Punjabis, and the 40thPathans. The battalion's new designation was 3rd Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment...
Capitals) and the Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, and captained Mumbai to its 40th Ranji Trophy title in 2013. He made his Test and ODI debuts in 1998 and T20I...
his critics who believed that his career was inexorably sliding with his 40th ODI century. Though he scored 141 not out, West Indies won the rain-affected...
military formations were units composed of infantry of either Punjabi or Pathan origin. However, the oldest unit of the regiment is the Scinde Camel Corps...
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British India (1922 - 47)
Pakistan (1947 - present)
British Indian Army
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