'Sikhs in Guard Order (hot weather)', 1st Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, 1938 (c)

Photograph, India, 1938 (c).

In the 1922 re-organisation of the Indian Army, the five regiments of Punjab Infantry were amalgamated to form five battalions of the 13th Frontier Force Rifles. 55th Coke's Rifles (Frontier Force) became the 1st Battalion.

From an album presented to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. The album was compiled in 1938 by an instructor, Captain (later Brigadier) Hubert Gervais Lennox Brain (1901-1993), 6th Royal Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles, to give officer cadets in England an idea of what service in the Indian Army was like. In 1974, the album now part of the National Army Museum Collection, was enhanced with photographs from 1939-1947 to fill the remaining pages.