2nd Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force

also known as 56th Punjab Rifles

Chronology

1849 raised as 2nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry
1851 retitled as the 2nd Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Irregular Force
1865 became 2nd Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
1901 became 2nd Punjab Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
1903 became 56th Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
1906 became 56th Punjab Rifles, Frontier Force
1922 became 2nd Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles
1947 allocated to Pakistan on partition
1957 The Frontier Force Rifles, The Pathan Regiment and the Frontier Force Regiment were amalgamated to form the new Frontier Force Regiment

My service in the Indian Army – and after by General Sir John Luther Vaughan 1904 Archive.org. In 1850 he was appointed to the 2nd Punjab Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force