6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force

Known as 59th Scinde Rifles

6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force Waziristan 1937

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

Regimental histories

• Regimental History of the 6th Royal Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles (Scinde) 1843-1923, published 1926. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01009595750 . Also available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see below.
• Regimental History of the 6th Royal Battalion (Scinde), 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1843-1934 [Compiled by Douglas M. Lindsay] 1935. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795361
• Regimental History of the 6th Royal Battalion (Scinde) 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1934-1947. [Compiled by N. L. St. P. Bunbury]. 1951. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795362
• The Frontier Force Rifles by Brigadier W E H Condon 1953. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001795360 . Also available in a reprint edition, with a slightly different title, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see below.
• A Summarised History of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles, Indian Army, during the Second World War, 1939-1946 by [A.D. FitzGerald]. 1985. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011838679

War Diaries, First World War

• A transcribed war diary (of an original handwritten diary, where the handwriting has been deciphered for you!) is available for 59th (Scinde) Rifles 1914-15 on the Western Front. See Western Front - War Diaries for more details.

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)".
• Frontier Force Regiment defence.pk
• 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.
• Regimental History of the 6th Royal Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles (Scinde) is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, titled Regimental History of the 6th Royal Battalion (located in Military Books/India). Sample pages Google Books
• The Frontier Force Rifles by Brigadier W E H Condon, originally published 1953, is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 (located in Military Books/Britain). The reprint edition appears to have pages 298-299 missing which may be accessed below.