Kammala wannan jumlar: A cikin 1902, an sake tsara rukunin, wanda yanzu aka sanya shi a matsayin 2nd Madras Infantry, tare da Punjabi Musulmai, Sikhs da Rajputs. A shekara mai zuwa, sakamakon gyare-gyaren da Lord Kitchener ya kawo a cikin Sojojin Indiya, duk rukunin Madras sun sami 60 da aka kara wa lambobin su, kuma an canza sunan rundunar zuwa 62nd Punjabis. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Farko, an aika da Punjabis na 62 zuwa Masar a matsayin wani ɓangare na Rukunin Indiya na 10 don kare Suez Canal. Rundunar ta taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen kawar da hare-haren Turkiyya na 1915. Bayan aiki a cikin mulkin mallaka na Birtaniya na Aden daga baya a wannan shekarar, sun isa Mesopotamiya a ranar 31 ga Disamba, 1915. A nan, sun shiga cikin mummunar fada a kan Tigris Front, yayin da Birtaniya suka yi kokari don tayar da
Siege na Kut al Amara, kuma daga baya, a lokacin da Birtaniya ke ci gaba zuwa arewa. Rundunar ta shiga cikin Yaƙe-yaƙe na Hanna, Dujaila Redoubt da Hai Salient. Bayan ya yi aiki a kan iyakar Farisa don sauran yakin, rundunar ta koma Indiya a 1920. Ya sha wahala jimillar asarar rayuka 840 a lokacin yakin. Kyaftin Claude Auchinleck, daga baya Field Marshal kuma Kwamandan-Janar na karshe na Sojojin Indiya na Burtaniya, ya yi aiki tare da 'yan Punjabis na 62 a Masar da Mesopotamia.