33rd Punjab Regiment of Infantry

Known as 33rd Punjabis

'33rd Punjabi's' from a painting by Major A. C. Lovett

Chronology

• 1857 raised as Allahabad Levy
• 1861 became 33rd Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
• 1864 became 33rd (Allahabad) Bengal Native Infantry
• 1885 became 33rd Bengal Infantry
• 1890 became 33rd (Punjabi Mahomedan) Bengal Infantry
• 1901 became 33rd Punjab Infantry
• 1903 became 33rd Punjabis
• 1922 became 3rd/16th Punjab Regiment
• 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition

Regimental history

• Solah Punjab: The History of the 16th Punjab Regiment. Edited by J. P. Lawford and W. E. Catto 1967. Available at the British Library

External Links

• 33rd Punjabis British Empire website
• 16th Punjab Regiment from John Gaylor's book Sons Of John Company. Defence Journal Karachi May 1999
• Pakistan: The Punjab Regiment to 1957 by Babur Mahmood September 1, 2002 orbat.com
• WW2Talk Forum thread 3 Bn 16th Punjab Regt about the regiment at the Fall of Singapore in 1942
• Article The 5th Battalion (Punjab Regiment) in Malaya about the 5th/14th P.R. also mentions the 3rd/16th Punjab Regiment cofepow.org.uk