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Authors
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T.F.
Mills |
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Page
created 1 July 2000. Corrected and updated
13.12.2005
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13th Frontier
Force Rifles
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India
/ Pakistan
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The
Frontier Force Regiment, by Babar Mahmud (Orbat.com) |
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Regimental Centre: |
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Abbottabad [1923-1956] |
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Regulars:
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1st
Battalion (Coke's) [1922-1943, 1946-1956] |
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2nd Battalion [1922-1956] |
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3rd Battalion [not formed] |
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4th
Battalion (Wilde's) [1922-1948] |
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5th Battalion [1922-1956] |
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6th
Royal Battalion (Scinde) [1940-1956] |
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7th Battalion [1940-1946] |
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8th Battalion [1940-1946] |
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9th Battalion [1941-1947] |
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10th (Training) Battalion
[1922-1943] |
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12th Battalion [not formed] |
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13th Battalion [not formed] |
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14th Battalion [1941-1946] |
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15th Battalion [1941-1943,
1947?-1948] |
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16th Battalion [1942-1946] |
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17th Battalion [1941-1944] |
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26th Garrison Battalion
[1942-1946] |
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27th Garrison Battalion
[1942-1946] |
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Machine Gun Battalion
[1942-1946] |
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Territorials: |
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11th (Territorial) Battalion
[1922-1941] |
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[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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Badges: |
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Uniform: |
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Colonel Commandant |
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1930.09.28 |
F.M. Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st
Lord Birdwood, GCB, GCSI, GCMG, GCVO, CIE, DSO |
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Musicians: |
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Mascot: |
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Miscellaneous
Tradition Links: |
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[no external sites have been found] |
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Full Histories:
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