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13th Frontier Force Rifles
 
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1922.03.01 13th Frontier Force Rifles
formed by union:
 
1945 The Frontier Force Rifles
1947 allocated to Pakistan at partition and independence
1956 united with The Frontier Force Regiment, and The Pathan Regiment, to form
The Frontier Force Regiment
pip The Frontier Force Regiment, by Babar Mahmud (Orbat.com)
Regimental Centre:
Abbottabad [1923-1956]
 
Regulars:
  1st Battalion (Coke's) [1922-1943, 1946-1956]
  2nd Battalion [1922-1956]
  3rd Battalion [not formed]
  4th Battalion (Wilde's) [1922-1948]
  5th Battalion [1922-1956]
  6th Royal Battalion (Scinde) [1940-1956]
  7th Battalion [1940-1946]
  8th Battalion [1940-1946]
  9th Battalion [1941-1947]
  10th (Training) Battalion [1922-1943]
  12th Battalion [not formed]
  13th Battalion [not formed]
  14th Battalion [1941-1946]
  15th Battalion [1941-1943, 1947?-1948]
  16th Battalion [1942-1946]
  17th Battalion [1941-1944]
  26th Garrison Battalion [1942-1946]
  27th Garrison Battalion [1942-1946]
  Machine Gun Battalion [1942-1946]
   
Territorials:
  11th (Territorial) Battalion [1922-1941]
   
   
   
[combined battle honours of the 55th Coke's Rifles, 56th Punjabi Rifles, 57th Wilde's Rifles, 58th Vaughan's Rifles and the 59th Royal Scinde Rifles, plus:]

The Great War:1  La Bassée 1914, Messines 1914, Armentières 1914, Festubert 1914 '15, Givenchy 1914, Neuve Chapelle, Ypres 1915, St. Julien, Aubers, Loos, France and Flanders 1914-15, Suez Canal, Egypt 1915-17, Gaza, El Mughar, Nebi Samwil, Jerusalem, Megiddo, Sharon, Palestine 1917-18, Tigris 1917, Kut al Amara 1917, Baghdad, Mesopotamia 1916-18, Persia 1918-19, Aden, E Africa 1916-18, NW Frontier India 1917, Baluchistan 1918

Afghanistan 19191

The Second World War:  Gash Delta, Barentu, Keren, Ad Teclesan, Amba Alagi, Abyssinia 1940-41, Deir ez Zor, Raqaa, Syria 1941, Gazala, Sidi Rezegh 1942, Gambut, Mersa Matruh, North Africa 1940-43, The Trigno, Tufillo, The Sangro, Impossible Bridge, Villa Grande, Cassino II, Gustav Line, Pignataro, Advance to Florence, Gothic Line, Monte Grande, The Senio, Bologna, Monte Sole, Italy 1943-45, North Malaya, Kota Bharu, Johore, Gemas, The Muar, Singapore Island, Malaya 1941-42, Pegu 1942, Taukkyan, Monywa 1942, Shwegyin, North Arakan, Point 551, Mayu Tunnels, Maungdaw, Ngakyedauk Pass, Imphal, Litan, Arakan Beaches, Myebon, Ramree, Mandalay, Myinmu, Meiktila, Nyaungu Bridgehead, Capture of Meiktila, Defence of Meiktila, Taungtha, Myingyan, The Irawaddy, Yenaungyaung 1945, Magwe, Rangoon Road, Pegu 1945, Sittang 1945, Burma 1942-45

1. awarded 1926 for services of predecessor regiments [q.v.]

 
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1936.12.10 F.M. HM King George VI
 
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1930.09.28 F.M. Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Lord Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, CIE, DSO
Victoria Crosses, by Mike Chapman (VC Reference).
Ali Haidar VC, by Ed Haynes (International Phaleristic Encyclopedia).
Prakash Singh VC, by Ed Haynes (International Phaleristic Encyclopedia).
 
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