[2] At Malakand, Sir Winston Churchill, who was covering the campaign as a war correspondent for The Daily Telegraph, was temporarily attached with the regiment.

The future Prime Minister of Great Britain cut an impressive figure on his grey charger, being in the thick of action everywhere.

[3] Subsequent to the reforms brought about in the Indian Army by Lord Kitchener in 1903, the regiment's designation was changed to 31st Punjabis.

[2] 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.

During the Second World War, the battalion fought in the Malayan Campaign and was taken prisoner by the Japanese on Singapore Island following the British surrender on 15 February 1942.