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| Known as '''6th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry''' in the Madras Army<br>
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| Known as '''66th Punjabis''' in the Indian Army
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| *'''1759''' formed as 7th Battalion Coast Sepoys
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| *'''1769''' became 7th Carnatic Battalion
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| *'''1770''' became 6th Carnatic Battalion
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| *'''1784''' became 6th Madras Battalion
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| *'''1796''' became 1st Battalion, 6th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
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| *'''1824''' became '''6th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry'''
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| *'''1885''' became 6th Regiment of Madras Infantry
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| *'''1901''' became 6th Madras Infantry
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| *'''1903''' became '''66th Punjabis'''
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| *'''1922''' became 2nd/[[1st Punjab Regiment]]
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| *'''1947''' allocated to Pakistan on Partition
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| Regimental history: ''The First Punjabis - History of the First Punjab Regiment 1759 - 1956'' by Major Mohammed Ibrahim Qureshi, published 1958.<ref> For more details see Chidley, Ann
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| [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1316525/ The First Punjab Regiment] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 23 August 2011. Retrieved 8 February 2019.</ref> | |
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| *[http://web.archive.org/web/20060113010844/www.regiments.org/regiments/southasia/inf/1903-066.htm 66th Punjabis] regiments.org<br> | | *Google maps - incompatible with 1.18 |
| *[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/66thpunjabis.htm 66th Punjabis] British Empire website<br> | |
| *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st_Punjab_Regiment 1st Punjab Regiment] Wikipedia
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| *[https://web.archive.org/web/20160810041744/http://defencejournal.com/jun99/1st-punjab.htm 1st Punjab Regiment] defencejournal.com Karachi probably June 1999, now an archived webpage
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| *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140502032950/http://orbat.com/site/history/open1/pakistan_punjabregt.html Pakistan: The Punjab Regiment to 1957] by Babur Mahmood September 1, 2002 orbat.com, now archived.
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| *Imperial War Museums [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060042407 catalogue entry] for a 1945 film "2nd Battalion 1st Punjab Regiment Lead The Way To Singapore"
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| *[http://www.scotsatwar.org.uk/veteransreminiscences/jwarthur.htm Major JW Arthur MC of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment, WW2] From his diaries, edited by his son scotsatwar.org.uk
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| *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZG3sR-XN6kUC&pg=PA21 Page 21] ''Memoirs of the Four-Foot Colonel'' by Smith Dun. Google Books. The 2nd Battalion, 1st Punjab Regiment was based at [[Razmak]] in the late 1930s and then moved to [[Multan]], where in 1939 it was assigned to internal security.
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