12th Frontier Force Regiment

Punjab Irregular Force
 
1846: 1st Regiment of Infantry,
Frontier Brigade
2nd Regiment of Infantry,
Frontier Brigade
3rd Regiment of Infantry,
Frontier Brigade
4th Regiment of Infantry,
Frontier Brigade
The Corps of Guides

1847: 1st Regiment of
Sikh Local Infantry
2nd Regiment (Hill Corps) of
Sikh Local Infantry
3rd Regiment of
Sikh Local Infantry
4th Regiment of
Sikh Local Infantry


1857: 1st Regiment of
Sikh Infantry
2nd Regiment (Hill Corps) of
Sikh Infantry
3rd Regiment of
Sikh Infantry
4th Regiment of
Sikh Infantry


1857: 1st Regiment of
Sikh Infantry,
Punjab Irregular Force

2nd (Hill) Regiment of
Sikh Infantry,
Punjab Irregular Force

3rd Regiment of
Sikh Infantry,
Punjab Irregular Force

4th Regiment of
Sikh Infantry,
Punjab Irregular Force

The Corps of Guides,
Punjab Irregular Force


1865: 1st Regiment of
Sikh Infantry,
Punjab Frontier Force

2nd (Hill) Regiment of
Sikh Infantry,
Punjab Frontier Force

3rd Regiment of
Sikh Infantry,
Punjab Frontier Force

4th Regiment of
Sikh Infantry,
Punjab Frontier Force

The Corps of Guides,
Punjab Frontier Force


1876:







Queen’s Own Corps of Guides,
Punjab Frontier Force

1901: 1st Sikh Infantry
2nd (Hill) Sikh Infantry
3rd Sikh Infantry
4th Sikh Infantry
Queen’s Own Corps of Guides
Renumbering into the Indian Army
1903: 51st Sikhs
(Frontier Force)
52nd Sikhs
(Frontier Force)
53rd Sikhs
(Frontier Force)
54th Sikhs
(Frontier Force)
Queen’s Own Corps of Guides (Lumsden’s)
(Frontier Force)
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Guides
1911:







Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides
(Frontier Force) (Lumsden’s)

1917:





2nd Bn raised

2nd Bn raised
3rd Bn raised
1921: 51st The Prince of Wales’s
Own Sikhs
(Frontier Force)







2nd Bn disbanded


3rd Bn disbanded


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1922: 1st (Prince of Wales’s Own) Bn, 2nd (Sikhs) Bn, 3rd (Sikhs) Bn, 4th (Sikhs) Bn, 5th (Queen Victoria’s Own
Corps of Guides) Bn,
10th (Queen Victoria’s Own
Corps of Guides) (Training) Bn,
12th Frontier Force Regiment
12th Frontier Force Regiment
1940: 6th Bn raised
7th Bn raised
1941: 8th Bn raised
9th Bn raised
14th Bn raised
1942: 2nd Bn captured
1st Afridi Bn raised
1943: 10th Bn → Regimental Center
1944: 6th Bn disbanded
1945: The Frontier Force Regiment
The Frontier Force Regiment
1946: 9th Bn → 2nd Bn
7th Bn disbanded
14th Bn disbanded
1st Afridi Bn disbanded
Pakistan
1947: 1st, 2nd, 3nd, 4th, 5th and 8th Bn
1948: 4th Bn split off → 1st Bn, The Pathan Regiment
9th Bn raised
Islamic Republic of Pakistan
1956: merged into
The Frontier Force Regiment
Frontier Force Regiment