27th Regiment of Punjab Infantry
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Known as 27th Punjabis
Chronology
- 1857 raised as 19th Regiment of Punjab Infantry
- 1861 became 27th Bengal Native Infantry
- 1864 became 27th (Punjab) Bengal Native Infantry
- 1885 became 27th (Punjab) Bengal Infantry
- 1901 became 27th Punjab Infantry
- 1903 became 27th Punjabis
- 1922 became 3rd/15th Punjab Regiment
- 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition
Second World War
The regiment was in India until June 1940, then alternated between Aden and British Somaliland until May 1942, then Persia to January 1943, followed by Iraq and Syria to September 1943. The regiment arrived in Italy in September 1943 and remained until June 1945 when it returned to India.[1]
External Links
- 27th Punjabis British Empire website
- 15th Punjab Regiment Wikipedia
- Pakistan: The Punjab Regiment to 1957 by Babur Mahmood September 1, 2002 orbat.com, now archived.
- 1/2nd & 3/15th Punjabis in Somaliland, July 1940 – March 1941 from Harry’s Africa by Harry Fecitt kaiserscross.com
- Somalia Fighting Colonialism somalinz.org
- Photograph 1941: Armed boarding vessel HMS 'Chakdina' (1914) under way en route Aden to Assab with the 15th Punjab Regiment on board Royal Museums, Greenwich. Probably the 3/15 Punjab Regiment. Assab is a port city, then Italian now in Eritrea (Southern Red Seas region)
- Lt Harry Goslin RA: a fallen Wanderer at the Moro River Cheti Province, Italy, December 1943. Harry Goslin was a Forward Observation Officer attached to the 3rd Battalion of the 15th Punjabi Regiment.
References
- ↑ dryan67. 3rd/14th Punjab Regt & 3rd/15th Punjab Regt WW2Talk Forum 16 January 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2016. David A Ryan is co author of books on the Indian Army in WW2, see the WW2Talk Forum post Indian Army: An Organisational History
