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#REDIRECT Known as '''29th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry''' in the Madras Army<br>Known as '''89th Punjabis''' in the Indian Army==Chronology==*'''1798''' raised as 1st Battalion, 15th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry*'''1824''' became '''29th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry'''*'''1885''' became 29th Madras Infantry*'''1893''' became 29th Regiment (7th Burma Battalion) Madras Infantry*'''1901''' became 29th Burma Infantry*'''1903''' became '''89th Punjab Regiment'''*'''1922''' became 1st/[[8th Punjab Regiment]]*'''1947''' allocated to Pakistan on Partition*'''1956''' merged with other units to form the Baloch Regiment ==Regimental histories==*''History of the 1st Battalion 8th Punjab Regiment'' by Col. N.M Geoghegan & Capt. M.H.A Campbell, published 1928, is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01007254776*''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.<ref>RobG64 [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/8th-punjab-regiment-regimental-history.83313/ 8th Punjab Regiment Regimental History] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 19 January 2020. Retrieved 21 January 2020.</ref> ==First World War==The battalion had the distinction of serving in more theatres of the war than any perhaps other single battalion in the Commonwealth. Having sailed from India in November 1914, by the time it returned home in September 1920, it had served in South-West Arabia, in Egypt, in Gallipoli, in France, in Mesopotamia, on the North-West Frontier, in Salonica, in the Caucasus, and finally at Constantinople with the Army of the Black Sea.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140221014448/http://www.hcindia-au.org/pdf/The%20Indian%20Army%20at%20Gallipoli%201915.pdf "The Indian Army at Gallipoli 1915"] condensed from a paper presented by Sqn Ldr Rana TS Chhina (Retd) at a conference organised by the Australian War Memorial in August 2010. Archived page, website of the High Commission of India in Australia</ref> == External Links ==*[89th http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Punjab_Regiment 8th Punjab Regiment]Wikipedia<br>*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160811005455/http://defencejournal.com/2000/jan/8th-punjab.htm 8th Punjab Regiment]from John Gaylor's book ''Sons Of John Company''. ''Defence Journal'' Karachi January 2000, now archived. *[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/indianinfantry/89thpunjabis.htm 89th Punjabis] British Empire website*[https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:236100/ Photograph: 89th Punjabis, Col. C.V. Mainwaring Comdg. Mandalay: 1913] Brown University Library, Providence RI, USA. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20151121035412/http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/military-honours/shahamad-khan.php Shahamad Khan] cwgc.org, now an archived webpage. Shahamad Khan was a Naik in the 89th Punjabis serving on the Tigris Front in Mesopotamia during the [[First World War]] when he was awarded the Victoria Cross. == References ==<references /> {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
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