30th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry

Known as 30th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry in the Madras Army
Known as 90th Punjabis In the Indian Army

Chronology

• 1798 raised as 2nd Battalion, 15th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
• 1824 became 30th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
• 1885 became 30th Madras Infantry
• 1892 became 30th Regiment (5th Burma Battalion) Madras Infantry
• 1901 became 30th Burma Infantry
• 1903 became 90th Punjab Regiment
• 1922 became 2nd/8th Punjab Regiment
• 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition
• 1956 merged with other units to form the Baloch Regiment

Also see

• Reginald Malpas Gore

Regimental history

• 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.

• The Punjab Mail Murder: The Story of an Indian Army Officer by Roger Perkins 1979 and 1986 editions. The 1979 edition is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008815257. George Ramsey Hext of the 2nd/8th Punjab Regiment was murdered during an attack by Indian nationalists on a passenger train in 1931. The book is stated to contain much military detail on the North West Frontier campaign of 1930-31.

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.
• 90th Punjabis British Empire website