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Originally raised as the [[1st Punjab Volunteer Rifle Corps]] on the 1st April 1861 and on the 15th July 1871 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>
==External links==
*[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 [http://shankardubai.tripod.com/Photo14.jpg 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]]
*[httphttps://www.emulekiplingsociety.com/2poetryco.uk/phorumpoem/readpoems_beleaguered.php?4,12692 htm "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''
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105601/page/n199/mode/2up "Army"] page 185 : ''Punjab District Gazetteers Gurdaspur District Vol.XXI A'' 1914. Archive.org. Contains a brief mention of the 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles whose members included some in Gurdaspur District (in which [[Dalhousie]] was located) who were mostly European employees at the Dhariwal Mills. [https://www.dronahfoundation.org/new-egerton-woollen-mills-dhariwal/ New Egerton Woollen Mills, Dhariwal] (dronahfoundation.org) was established in 1880.
== References ==
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[[Category:Auxiliary Regiments]]
