1st Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force: Difference between revisions

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Known as the 1st Punjabis and Coke's Rifles. Stationed at Dera Ismail Khan in 1902.

1849 raised as 1st Regiment of Punjab Infantry by Captain John Coke
1851 retitled as the 1st Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Irregular Force
1865 became the 1st Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
1901 became 1st Punjab Infantry
1903 became 55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force)
1922 amalagmated with six other regiments to form the 6-battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, the 55th becoming the 1st Battalion (Coke's)
1946 became 1st Battalion (Coke's), Frontier Force Rifles
1946 allocated to Pakistan
1956 amalgamated with the Pathan Regiment and the Frontier Force Regiment forming The Frontier Force Regiment and known as the 7th (Coke's) Battalion

Digest Of Services Of The 1st (Coke's) Regiment, Punjab Infantry by Colonel Theo Higginson. Published Simla, 1888. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.

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 *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coke_(EICo) John Coke (East India Company officer) ] Wikipedia<br>
 *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_Dast Jemadar Mir Dast VC] Wikipedia
 *[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1966-11-30-16 Photograph:  c 1860: Playing Cricket, Kohat]from UK National Army Museum (nam.ac.uk)
+===Historical books online===
+*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/278680 ''Digest Of Services Of The 1st (Coke's) Regiment, Punjab Infantry''] by  Colonel Theo Higginson. Published Simla, 1888. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
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