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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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Page
created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated
13.12.2005
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15th Punjab
Regiment
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India
/ Pakistan
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The
Punjab Regiment to 1957, by Babar Mahmud (Orbat.com) |
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Regimental Centre: |
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Sialkot [1923-1956] |
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Regulars: |
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1st
Battalion [1922-1956] |
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2nd Battalion [1922-1942,
1946-1956] |
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3rd Battalion [1922-1956] |
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4th
Battalion [1922-1956] |
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5th Battalion [1940-1946] |
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6th Battalion [1941-19uu] |
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7th Battalion [1941-1946] |
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8th Battalion [1941-1946] |
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9th Battalion [1941-1947] |
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10th
(Training) Battalion [1922-1943] |
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13th Battalion [not formed] |
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14th Battalion [1942-1943] |
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15th Battalion [1942-1944] |
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16th Battalion [1943-1946] |
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25th Garrison Battalion [1941-1943] |
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26th Garrison Battalion [1942-1946] |
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27th (Jind) Garrison Battalion [1943-1946] |
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Machine Gun Battalion [1942-1942] |
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Territorials: |
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11th (Territorial) Battalion [1922-1941] |
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12th (Territorial) Battalion [1939-1941] |
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[combined
battle honours of the 25th
Punjabis, 26th Punjabis,
27th Punjabis, 28th
Punjabis, and the 29th
Punjabis,
plus:]
The Great
War:1 Loos,
France and Flanders 1915, Suez
Canal, Egypt 1915,
Megiddo, Sharon,
Palestine 1918, Tigris
1916, Kut al-Amara
1917, Baghdad,
Mesopotamia 1915-18,
Persia 1918, NW
Frontier India 1917, Kilimanjaro,
E Africa 1914-17
The Second World War: Tug
Argan, British Somaliland 1940, Berbera,
Assab, Abyssinia 1940-41, West
Borneo 1941-42, South East Asia 1941-42, The
Sangro, The Moro, Cassino II, Gothic Line, The Senio, Italy 1943-45,
Rathedaung, North Arakan,
Kohima, Jail Hill, Naga Village, Kyaukmyaung Bridgehead, Mandalay,
Fort Dufferin, Meiktila, Nyaungu Bridgehead, Taungtha, The Irrawaddy,
Yenaungyaung 1945, Kama, Toungoo, Sittang 1945, Burma 1942-45
1. awarded 1926 for services of predecessor regiments
[q.v.]
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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
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4th Bn: Gen. Sir Charles
Harington Harington, GCB, GBE, DSO [also The
King's Regt] |
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Motto: |
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Freedoms: |
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Marches: |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Regimental
Journal: |
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Full Histories:
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| Raghavan, V. R. By land
and sea : the post-independence history of the Punjab Regiment,
1947-1986. [Ramgarh Cantt., Bihar : Punjab Regimental
Centre], 1986. |
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| Rizvi, S. Haider Abbas. Veteran
campaigners : a history of the Punjab Regiment, 1759-1981 (Pakistan
Army). Lahore : printed by Wajidalis, 1984. |
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Short Histories:
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