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[[Category:Indian Army Infantry Regiments]][[Category:Bengal Infantry Regiments]][[Category:Punjab Frontier Force]]'''Known as 58th Vaughan's Rifles'''
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== 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.<ref>Johnathan [https://web.archive.org/web/20130709124130/http://victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=7147&start=15 The Khyber Rifles] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 14 June 2012, now archived.</ref>
==Regimental history==
*''History of the 5th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1849- 1926'' by H. C Wylly, (Harold Carmichael). 1929. Now available online, 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,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/frontier-force-rifles1849-1946/ ''The Frontier Force Rifles 1849 – 1946''] by Brigadier W E H Condon. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> 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 ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13th_Frontier_Force_Rifles 13th Frontier Force Rifles] Wikipedia<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier_Force_Regiment Frontier Force Regiment] Wikipedia*[https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/frontier-force-regiment.33526/ Frontier Force Regiment] defence.pk*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/511922.html "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 ====*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.285164 ''The Historical Record of the 5th Punjab Infantry''] 1887. Archive.org, originally from the Digital Library of India. *[http://www.archive.org/stream/myserviceinindi00vauggoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''My Service in the Indian Army – and After''] by Sir John Luther Vaughan 1904 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/record-58th-rifles-f-f-great-war/page/n1/mode/2up ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by Colonel A G Lind DSO 1933. Archive.org. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Wikimedia Commons] - Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. The latter links may be slow to open.*[https://archive.org/details/5thbatt13thfrontierforcerifles/mode/2up ''History of the 5th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles 1849-1926''] by Colonel H C Wylly 1929. Archive.org *''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 [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19DeBdXGZW online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain). The reprint edition appears to have pages 298-299 missing which may be accessed below.<ref>idler. [http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/condon-the-frontier-force-rifles-1849-1946.85399/#post-880627 Condon - The Frontier Force Rifles 1849-1946], post 2, ''WW2Talk Forum'' 10 May 2020. Retrieved 12 May 2020. To access the text, you must be signed into WW2Talk Forum.</ref> == References ==<references /> [[Category:Indian Army Infantry Regiments]][[Category:Punjab Frontier Force Infantry]]
