page_title: 22nd Punjabis
section_title: Early history
hierarchical_section_title: 22nd Punjabis / Early history
caption_attribution_description: English: Officers of 11th Punjab Infantry (later, 22nd Punjabis, and now 7 Punjab, Pakistan Army) in camp at Pehtang, China, 1860. Illustration by Charles Wirgman. Published in the Illustrated London News, 1860.
context_page_description: The 22nd Punjabis was an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1857, as the 11th Regiment of Punjab Infantry. It was designated as the 22nd Punjabis in 1903 and became 3rd Battalion 14th Punjab Regiment in 1922. In 1947, it was allocated to the Pakistan Army, where it continues to exist as 7th Battalion The Punjab Regiment.
context_section_description: The regiment was raised at Multan on 1 August 1857, during the upheaval of the Indian Mutiny, as the 11th Regiment of Punjab Infantry from the men of the 1st Sikh Infantry and the 3rd Punjab Police Battalion. The regiment took part in the Second Opium War in 1860, the Lushai Expedition of 1871 and the Second Afghan War of 1878-80.
caption: Officers of 11th Punjab Infantry in camp at Pehtang, China, 1860.
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