Battle of Wandiwash 1860 Siege of Madura 1763 First Anglo-Mysore War 1767–69 Capture of Pondicherry 1778 Second Anglo-Mysore War 1780–84 Third Anglo-Mysore War 1789–92 Second Mahratta War 1803–06 Travancore War 1809 Third Mahratta War 1817–19 Coorg War 1834 First China War 1839–42 Chin Lushai Expedition 1889–90 First World War 1914–18[1]
Commanders
Colonel of the Regiment
Field Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck, GCB, GCIE, CSI, DSO, OBE
Military unit
The 62nd Punjabis was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1759 as the 3rd Battalion of Coast Sepoys, and formed part of the Madras Army. It was designated as the 62nd Punjabis in 1903 and became 1st Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment in 1922. In 1947, it was allocated to the Pakistan Army, where it continues to exist as 1st battalion, Punjab Regiment. It is the senior-most surviving infantry battalion of the British Indian Army.[1]
^ abQureshi, Maj MI. (1958). The First Punjabis: History of the First Punjab Regiment 1759–1956. Aldershot: Gale & Polden.
The 62ndPunjabis was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1759 as the 3rd Battalion of Coast Sepoys, and formed part of...
second lieutenant in the Indian Army on 21 January 1903, and joined the 62ndPunjabis in April 1904. He soon learned several Indian languages, and, able to...
(the 62nd and 92nd Punjabis and the 2/10th Gurkha Rifles) 28th Indian Brigade (the 51st Sikhs (Frontier Force) and 53rd Sikhs, the 56th Punjabis and the...
Regiment in 1888. In 1890 he joined the Indian Staff Corps and the 62ndPunjabis. Harington married Dorothy, daughter of Walter Pepys, in 1909. The couple...
Madras Native Infantry may refer to: 1st Battalion which became the 62ndPunjabis 2nd Battalion which became the 80th Carnatic Infantry This disambiguation...
Indian General Hospital(1915) 135th Indian Field Ambulance Attached to 62ndPunjabis Fell in action, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1917 John Stephenson (zoologist)...
Indian Brigade 1/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment 26th Punjabis62ndPunjabis 82nd Punjabis 1st Battalion, 2nd King Edward's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor...
in the British 29th Division in January 1915 in the United Kingdom) 62ndPunjabis (joined in October 1914 from Allahabad Brigade, 8th (Lucknow) Division;...
artillery and rifle fire, the Devons and Gurkhas being reinforced by the 62ndPunjabis. The victory came at a price: out of 15 officers and 403 other ranks...
Army Ordnance Corps Lt.-Col. and Bt. Col. George Mortimer Morris DSO 62ndPunjabis, Indian Army Robert Russell Scott CSI Admiralty Establishments Gilbert...
left on 12 June 1915 for 22nd (Lucknow) Brigade, 11th Indian Division) 62ndPunjabis (joined on 9 July 1915 from 22nd (Lucknow) Brigade, 11th Indian Division;...
(4 August 2014). "Chak De Pollywood". Outlook. Retrieved 6 March 2021. "62nd National Film Awards" (PDF) (Press release). Directorate of Film Festivals...
regiment's designation was changed to 82nd Punjabis. On the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the 82nd Punjabis were serving on the North West Frontier...
and the regiment's designation was changed to 66th Punjabis. During World War I the 66th Punjabis were dispatched to Mesopotamia as part of the 12th Indian...
regiment's designation was changed to 84th Punjabis. During the first three years of the First World War, the 84th Punjabis remained deployed on the North West...
The 62nd National Film Awards ceremony was an event during which the Directorate of Film Festivals presents its annual National Film Awards to honour the...
The 62nd Filmfare Awards ceremony, presented by the Filmfare magazine, honored the best Hindi language Indian films of 2016. The ceremony was held on 14...
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