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HISTORY The 13th Frontier Force Rifle’s origins lie in the five regiments of infantry raised in 1849 by Colonel Henry Lawrence , the agent (and brother) of the Governor-General of the Punjab frontier region ( John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence ) from veterans of disbanded opposition forces after the Second Anglo-Sikh War . The regiments were named the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Punjab Infantry Regiments and became part of the Transfrontier Brigade (re-named in 1851 the Punjab Irregular Force, known as ''Piffers''). A sixth regiment was added in 1865 on re-designation of the Scinde Rifle Corps, which had originally been raised as the Scinde Camel Corps in 1843. In 1882 the 3rd Punjab Infantry Regiment was disbanded. In the 1903 reorganisation the regiments were redesignated and were afforded the status of Rifle Regiments:
In In the 1922 reorganisation of the British Indian Army the five regiments became the five regular battalions of the newly-formed 13th Frontier Force Rifles. The battalion numbering omitted a 3rd battalion so that the numbering reflected that of the original antecedent Punjab Infantry Regiments. In 1945 the regiment was renamed the The Frontier Force Rifles. On independence and the Partition Of India the regiment was allocated to Pakistan . In 1957 The Frontier Force Rifles, The Pathan Regiment and the 12th Frontier Force Regiment were amalgamated to form the new Frontier Force Regiment . EXTERNAL LINKS
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