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Page created 1 August 2000. Corrected and updated 12.11.2005
 
 
55th Coke's Rifles
(Frontier Force)
 
India / Pakistan  
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1849 1st Regiment of Punjab Infantry
1851 1st Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Irregular Force
1865.09.19 1st Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
1901 1st Punjab Infantry
1903 55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)
1922.03.01 united with 56th Punjabi Rifles, 57th Wilde's Rifles, 58th Vaughan's Rifles, and 59th Royal Scinde Rifles, to form 1st Bn, 13th Frontier Force Rifles
   
   
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Regulars:
  [1st Battalion] [1849-1922]
   
War-Formed Units:
    2nd Battalion [1918-1918]
     
     

Delhi 1857, Afghanistan 1878-79

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Afghanistan 19191

1. Awarded in 1926 to successor regiment.

 
 
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vc Mir Dast VC, by Ed Haynes (International Phaleristic Encyclopedia).
 
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