1st Regiment of Brahman Infantry

1st and 3rd Brahman Infantry

Known as 1st Brahmans

Chronology

In the Indian Mutiny the 21st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry did not rebel and, in the ensuing disbandment of the Bengal Army regiments, it became the most senior.

• 1861 became the 1st Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
• 1901 became the 1st Brahman Infantry
• 1903 became the 1st Brahmans
• 1922 united with 62nd Punjabis, 66th Punjabis, 76th Punjabis, 82nd Punjabis, and 84th Punjabis and became 4th/1st Punjab Regiment
• 1931 disbanded

British Library holdings

Regimental history: The First Punjabis - History of the First Punjab Regiment 1759 - 1956 by Major Mohammed Ibrahim Qureshi, published 1958

External Links

• 1st Brahmans www.regiments.org
  
• Nawab Wazir of Awadh Wikipedia
  
• 1st Brahmans British Empire website
• 1st Brahmans Wikipedia
• 1st Punjab Regiment Wikipedia
• 1st Punjab Regiment defencejournal.com Karachi probably June 1999
• Pakistan: The Punjab Regiment to 1957 orbat.com