- Title:
- Cap badge button, 1st Punjab Regiment, 1922-1947
- Object name(s):
- button
- Brief description:
- Cap badge button, 1st Punjab Regiment, 1922-1947. Small bi-metal button made by Jennens and Company, with an elephant surmounted by a King's Crown. The 1st Punjab Regiment was created as part of a reorganisation of the Indian Army in 1922. Its first battalions were formed from six Indian Army regiments: the 1st Brahmans and the 62nd, 66th, 76th, 82nd and 84th Punjabis. The regiment was expanded during World War Two (1939-1945) and its battalions fought in various theatres including North Africa, Italy and the Far East. The regiment was transferred to the Pakistan Army in 1947, after the Partition of India. This badge’s elephant emblem acknowledges the regiment’s forebear units’ involvement in the Battle of Assaye, in 1803, during the 2nd Maratha War (1803-1805). From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.
- Collection:
- National Army Museum
- Associated concept:
- Badges
- Current location:
- National Army Museum, Study collection
- Object name:
- button
- Object number:
- NAM. 2013-10-20-27-205
- Right type:
- National Army Museum Copyright
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Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC
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