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

Regimental history

• History of the 2nd Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1849-1931, published 1933. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013831726 .
• 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 .

External links

• 56th Punjabi Rifles Wikipedia. Retrieved 3 August 2014
• 56th Punjab Rifles britishempire.co.uk
  
• 13th Frontier Force Rifles Wikipedia
  
• Frontier Force Regiment Wikipedia
  
• Frontier Force Regiment defence.pk
• Photograph of Lt Napier Gordon - 2nd Punjab Infantry from Hussards-photos.com
• "Military Operations in Aden 1914-1915" by Harry Fecitt, from Harry’s Sideshows kaiserscross.com. Includes mention of the 56th Punjabi Rifles (Frontier Force).

Historical books online

• History Of The Second Punjab Infantry 1849-1888, published Calcutta 1889. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org mirror version.
• 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.
• 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 World War II/Military Books/Britain).