page_title: 16th Punjab Regiment
section_title: First World War
hierarchical_section_title: 16th Punjab Regiment / First World War
caption_attribution_description: English: Punjabi Muslims of 33rd Punjabis (later, 3/16th Punjab, and now 15 Punjab, Pakistan Army). Watercolour by Major Alfred Crowdy Lovett, 1910. Published in MacMunn &amp; Lovett, Armies of India, 1911.
context_page_description: The 16th Punjab Regiment was a regiment of the British Indian Army from 1922 to 1947. It was transferred to Pakistan Army on Partition of India in 1947, and amalgamated with the 1st, 14th and 15th Punjab Regiments in 1956 to form the Punjab Regiment.
context_section_description: The 30th Punjabis served with distinction in the German East Africa, while their 2nd Battalion served in the Palestine Campaign. The regiment raised a total of three new battalions during the war. Another regiment that raised three battalions was the 9th Bhopal Infantry, who were dispatched to the killing fields of France and Flanders in 1914. The regiment suffered heavy losses at the Battles of Neuve Chapelle, Festubert, Givenchy and the Second Ypres. In 1915, they arrived in Mesopotamia, where Sepoy Chatta Singh was awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional valour. By the time they returned home, only fifteen men remained of those who had sailed for France in 1914.
  30th Punjabis - India, German East Africa, Egypt.
  2/30th Punjabis - Raised in 1918. India, Egypt, Palestine.
  3/30th Punjabis - Raised in 1918. India.
  4/30th Punjabis - Raised in 1918. India.
  31st Punjabis - India, Mesopotamia, Greece, Turkey.
  33rd Punjabis - India, Egypt, France, Aden, German East Africa.
  2/33rd Punjabis - Raised in 1917. India.
  9th Bhopal Infantry - India, France, Egypt, Mesopotamia.
  2/9th Bhopal Infantry (The Delhi Regiment) - Raised in 1917. India, Mesopotamia.
  3/9th Bhopal Infantry - Raised in 1917. India, Mesopotamia.
  4/9th Bhopal Infantry - Raised in 1918. India.
  46th Punjabis - India, Egypt.
  All war-raised battalions were disbanded after the war. In 1921-22, a major reorganization was undertaken in the British Indian Army leading to the formation of large infantry groups of four to six battalions. Among these was the 16th Punjab Regiment. The line-up of battalions for Solah Punjab was:
  1st Battalion - 30th Punjabis
  2nd Battalion - 31st Punjabis
  3rd Battalion - 33rd Punjabis
  4th Battalion - 9th Bhopal Infantry
  10th (Training) Battalion - 46th Punjabis.
  The class composition of the new regiment was Punjabi Muslims, Sikhs and Dogras. The new regimental badge consisted of a Maltese cross with a Muslim crescent and a Sikh quoit, surmounted by a Tudor crown with a scroll below. The uniform was scarlet with white facings. Multan in the Punjab was chosen as the permanent station for the Training Battalion.
caption: Punjabi Muslims of 33rd Punjabis. Watercolour by Major AC Lovett, 1910.
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