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'''Known as 59th Scinde Rifles'''
[[Image:6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force Waziristan 1937 .jpg|600px|thumb|right|6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force Waziristan 1937]]
== Chronology ==
*'''1843''' raised in Karachi by Lt Robert FitzGerald as Scinde Camel Corps
*'''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,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/regimental-history-of-the-6th-royal-battalion-13th-frontier-force-rifles-scinde-1843-1923/ ''Regimental History of the 6th Royal Battalion 13th Frontier Force Rifles (Scinde) 1843-1923''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> 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,<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
==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.<ref>[https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-War-Diaries-1914-15-Western-ebook/dp/B076YBVSC5/ ''Great War Diaries: 59th (Scinde) Rifles (FF) War Diary 1914-15: Indian Army on the Western Front''] Available on Kindle - Kindle App available to read the Diary.</ref> See [[Western Front#War Diaries| Western Front - War Diaries]] for more details.
==Waziristan 1937==
During 1937 the regiment took part in operations against the Mahsud in [[Operations in Waziristan|Waziristan]]<ref> Payne, Rich
[http://ww2talk.com/index.php?threads/armoured-cars-tanks-other-vehicles-pith-helmets.26951/page-10#post-634486 Armoured Cars, Tanks, Other Vehicles... & Pith Helmets] ''WW2Talk Forum'' 27 July 2014. Contains images. Retrieved 11 August 2018.</ref>
== External Links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/59th_Scinde_Rifles_(Frontier_Force) 59th Scinde Rifles (Frontier Force)] Wikipedia*[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://web.archive.org/web/20131121082558/http://www.geocities.ws/scn_pk/frontier_force_regiment.html Frontier Force Regiment] by Dr Ali Jan. Commanding Officers (with thumbnail photographs) of “the oldest Frontier Force Battalion (Royal 6/13 or 1st FF)".*[https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/frontier-force-regiment.33526/ Frontier Force Regiment] defence.pk*[http://www.jullundurassociation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=82%3Athe-frontier-force&Itemid=61 The 59th (now the1st) (SCINDE) Frontier Force Regiment] Jullundur Brigade Association (retrieved 29 April 2014)===Historical books online===*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=pke-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA2 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 [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvslIQHH_lA ''Regimental History of the 6th Royal Battalion''] (located in World War II/Military Books/India).*''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 /> {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
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