29th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry

Known as 29th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry in the Madras Army
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.

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.

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.
• 89th Punjabis British Empire website
• Photograph: 89th Punjabis, Col. C.V. Mainwaring Comdg. Mandalay: 1913 Brown University Library, Providence RI, USA.
• 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.