6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force

Known as 59th Scinde Rifles

Chronology

• 1843 raised in Karachi by Lt Robert FitzGerald as Scinde Camel Corps
• 1851 retitled as the Scinde Rifle Corps, Punjab Irregular Force
• 1865 became 6th Punjab Infantry Regiment
• 1903 became 59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)
• 1921 became 59th Royal Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)
• 1922 became 6th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles
• 1945 became 1st Battalion The Frontier Force Rifles
• 1947 allocated to Pakistan on partition
• 1957 became 1st battalion Frontier Force Regiment

Waziristan 1937

During 1937 the regiment took part in operations against the Mahsud in Waziristan

External Links

• 59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force) Wikipedia
• 13th Frontier Force Rifles Wikipedia
  
• Frontier Force Regiment Wikipedia
• Frontier Force Regiment by Dr Ali Jan. Commanding Officers (with thumbnail photographs) of “the oldest Frontier Force Battalion (Royal 6/13 or 1st FF)".
• The 59th (now the1st) (SCINDE) Frontier Force Regiment Jullundur Brigade Association (retrieved 29 April 2014)

Historical books online

• Old print titled “The Scinde Camel Corps as when first raised at Karachi” which is between pages 2 and 3 of Regimental History of the 6th Royal Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles (Scinde), 1843–1923 first published in 1926. Google Books, which catalogues the author as Captain D. M. Lindsey.