8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry

'30th & 20th Infantry' from a painting by Major A. C. Lovett

Known as 20th Brownlow's Punjabis

Contents

Chronology

• 1857 formed as 8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry by Charles Brownlow from loyal elements of the 4th and 5th Punjab Infantry
• 1861 Brought into Bengal Army replacing 24th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry which had mutinied
• 1861 renumbered 20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
• 1864 became 20th (Punjab) Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry
• 1883 became 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own Punjab) Bengal Infantry
• 1901 became 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Punjab Infantry
• 1904 became 20th Duke of Cambridge's Own Infantry (Brownlow's Punjabis)
• 1922 amalgamated with five other regiments to form the 6-battalion 14th Punjab Regiment (2nd Battalion)
• 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition
• 1956 amalgamated into The Punjab Regiment

Battle Honours

• Taku Forts
• Pekin
• Afghanistan 1878-80

• Ali Masjid

• Sobraon
• Egypt 1882

• Tel-el-Kebir

• Punjab Frontier
• China 1900

External links

• Brownlow's Punjabis Wikipedia
  
• 20th Brownlow's Punjabis British Empire Website
  
• 14th Punjab Regiment Wikipedia
  
• The Punjab Regiment Wikipedia
• 14th Punjab Regiment, an extract from John Gaylor's book Sons Of John Company. Defence Journal Karachi August 1999, now archived.
• 14th Punjab Regiment Burma Star Association
• Pakistan: The Punjab Regiment to 1957 by Babur Mahmood September 1, 2002
 orbat.com, now archived.
• Drawing: "Man in Brownlow's Corps at Peshawar" (1858). Brown Digital Repository, Brown University Library, Providence, RI, USA.

Historical books online

• History of the 20th (Duke of Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis ; from its formation, in 1857, to 1907, published c 1909. Hathi Trust Digital Library.

Volume 2, 1909 to 1922 is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in International/Military Books/India.