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57th Wilde's Rifles
(Frontier Force)
 
India / Pakistan  
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1849 4th Regiment of Punjab Infantry
1851.02.15 4th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Irregular Force
1865.09.19 4th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
1901 1st Punjab Infantry
1903 57th Wilde's Rifles (Frontier Force)
1922.03.01 united with 55th Coke's Rifles, 56th Punjabi Rifles, 58th Vaughan's Rifles, and 59th Royal Scinde Rifles, to form 4th Bn, 13th Frontier Force Rifles
   
   
pip 57th Wilde's Rifles, by Stephen Luscombe and Charles Griffin (The British Empire)
   
Regulars:
  [1st Battalion] [1849-1922]
   
War-Formed Units:
    2nd Battalion [1918-1918] (disbanded without completing formation)
     
     

Delhi 1857, Lucknow, Afghanistan 1879-80, China 1900

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Afghanistan 19191

1. Awarded in 1926 to successor regiment.

 
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