5th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force

Known as 58th Vaughan's Rifles

Chronology

• 1849 raised as 5th Regiment of Punjab Infantry
• 1851 retitled as the 5th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Irregular Force
• 1865 retitled as the 5th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
• 1903 became 58th Vaughan's Rifles (Frontier Force)
• 1922 became 5th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles
• 1945 became 5th Battalion The Frontier Force Rifles
• 1947 allocated to Pakistan on partition
• 1957 amalgamated with The Pathan Regiment and the Frontier Force Regiment to form the new Frontier Force Regiment (10th Battalion)

Deployments

1880: with the Cabul Field Force. Depot at Kohat.

1881: At Dera Ismail Khan.

Regimental history

• History of the 5th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1849- 1926 by H. C Wylly, (Harold Carmichael). 1929. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01007254905 . Also available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see below.
• 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

• 13th Frontier Force Rifles Wikipedia
  
• Frontier Force Regiment Wikipedia
• Frontier Force Regiment defence.pk
• "Oranges, Dates and Coconuts: 58th Vaughan’s Rifles (Frontier Force) in Egypt, Palestine, Somaliland and Portuguese East Africa 1916 - 1918" by Harry Fecitt. Harry’s Sideshows kaiserscross.com. Retrieved 30 September 2014

Historical books online

• The Historical Record of the 5th Punjab Infantry 1887. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org mirror version
• My Service in the Indian Army – and After by Sir John Luther Vaughan 1904 Archive.org
• A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919 by A G Lind DSO 1933. Wikimedia Commons. Direct pdf link Archive.org pdf. May be slow to open.
• History of the 5th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles originally published 1929, 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).
• 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).