27th Regiment of Punjab Infantry
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
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 Ia 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.