The Sikh Regiment's battle honours include Lucknow 1857 and the Defence of Arrah, Saragarhi and Gulistan in 1897, Gallipoli 1915, Mesopotamia, Burma, Kohima, and the wars of 1947, 1965, 1971 and Kargil.
The Sikh Light Infantry, recruited from Mazhabi and Ramdasia Sikhs, carries its own list. The Punjab Regiment, which recruits across communities, carries another.
A battle honour is a place name on a colour. The men who earned them came from villages in Amritsar, Ferozepur, Jalandhar, Ludhiana and Hoshiarpur districts and their names are on regimental rolls and, occasionally, on a village wall.
Regimental museums hold the records. Very little of it has been connected back to the villages the men came from.
A single Punjab village's men may appear on colours carried in France, Iraq, Burma and Kashmir, and the village will have a plaque with a number on it and no names.
The regimental records are held at the regimental centres and are not digitised and not open. What is in them is the service record of hundreds of thousands of Punjabi men.
Village war memorials across Punjab carry names, ranks and units. Nobody has photographed them systematically, and a set of photographs would connect the regimental record to the villages the men came from.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission registers list the Punjabi dead of both wars by name and by village. That is the largest accessible body of information about ordinary Punjabis in the twentieth century and it is almost unused in Punjab itself.