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Originally raised as the [[1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps]] on the 1st April 1861 and on the 15th July absorbed the [[Punjab Light Horse (Volunteers)]] which was raised on the 27th March 1867. In 1898, the [[Punjab Light Horse]] and the Punjab Rifles together formed the Administrative Battalion, 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps<ref>''Quarterly Civil List for the Punjab 1898''</ref> In 1908 it was known as the 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles.<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/imperialgazette05unkngoog#page/n72/mode/1up ''Imperial Gazetteer of India : Provincial Series Punjab Volume II The Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan Divisions and Native States''], page 40 1908 Archive.org</ref>, with headquarters at [[Lahore]]. On the 1st April 1917 became the [[3rd Punjab Rifles]] before becoming the Punjab Rifles on the 1st October 1920. In 1898, wih headquarters at [[Lahore]], there were detachments at *[[Amritsar]]*Dariwal, (Dhariwal)*Gurdaspur*[[Rawalpindi]]*[[Murree]]*[[Sialkot]]*[[Delhi]]*[[Karnal]]*[[Ferozepore]]*[[Dharmsala]]<ref>''Quarterly Civil List for the Punjab 1898''</ref>
'''D Company''', 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles had its headquarters at [[Rawalpindi]]. It was recruited from the various Civil Departments with strength, exclusive of officers, 98 in 1907.
*[http://shankardubai.tripod.com/halwaters.htm The Henry (Hal) V.O. Waters Photo Collection] has a photograph of the Punjab Rifles (IDF) Armoured Train Section Moghalpura [the railway workshops three miles from Lahore] 1919. Scroll down to no 18. From Terry Case’s [http://shankardubai.tripod.com/nwrhome.htm North Western Railway]. It seems very likely this was the same armoured train used by the [[North-Western Railway Battalion]]
*[http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?4,12692 "A Beleaguered City"],is a parody by Rudyard Kipling about the proximity of the firing range of the Punjab Volunteer Rifles to the Lawrence Hall Gardens, in Lahore.
===Historical books online===
*[http://archive.org/stream/quarterlycivill00offigoog#page/n274/mode/1up "1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps"] page 256 ''Quarterly Civil List for the Punjab: Corrected up to 1st October 1898''
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