33rd Regiment of Madras Native Infantry

Known as 33rd Madras Regiment of Native Infantry in the Madras Army
Known as 93rd Burma Infantry Regiment in the Indian Army

Chronology

• 1800 raised as 1st Battalion, 17th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
• 1824 became 33rd Madras Regiment of Native Infantry
• 1885 became 33rd Madras Infantry
• 1890 became 3rd Burma Infantry
• 1891 became 33rd Regiment (3rd Burma Battalion) Madras Infantry
• 1901 became 33rd Burma Infantry
• 1903 became 93rd Burma Infantry Regiment
• 1922 became 5th/8th Punjab Regiment
• 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition
• 1956 merged with other units to form the Baloch Regiment

Regimental history

• Unfaded Glory : the 8th Punjab Regiment 1798-1956 by Major Rifat Nadeem Ahmad & Major General Rafiuddin Ahmed. Published 2006 by Naval & Military Press, UK. Available at Imperial War Museums, catalogue number LBY 07 / 2537

Some brief details of WW2 deployments from this book are provided in a WW2Talk Forum post.

External links

• 8th Punjab Regiment Wikipedia
• 8th Punjab Regiment from John Gaylor's book Sons Of John Company. Defence Journal Karachi January 2000, now archived.
• 93rd Burma Infantry British Empire website