33rd Regiment of Madras Native Infantry

Known as 33rd Madras Regiment of Native Infantry in the Madras Army
Known as 93rd Burma Infantry Regiment in the Indian Army

Chronology

• 1800 raised as 1st Battalion, 17th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry
• 1824 became 33rd Madras Regiment of Native Infantry
• 1885 became 33rd Madras Infantry
• 1890 became 3rd Burma Infantry
• 1891 became 33rd Regiment (3rd Burma Battalion) Madras Infantry
• 1901 became 33rd Burma Infantry
• 1903 became 93rd Burma Infantry Regiment
• 1922 became 5th/8th Punjab Regiment
• 1947 allocated to Pakistan on Partition
• 1956 merged with other units to form the Baloch Regiment

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.

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.
• 93rd Burma Infantry British Empire website

Historical books online

• "Pipe bands in the India Army" The Celtic Monthly: A Magazine for Highlanders page 126, Volume XVI 1908. Archive.org. Very briefly mentions the 93rd Punjabis, which seems most likely to be 93rd Burma Infantry, although the latter regiment appears never to have been officially known as 93rd Punjabis.
• Regimental History 1914-1920, 93rd Burma Infantry c 1921 Archive.org