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The various units comprising the Punjab Frontier Force, or ‘Piffers’ as they are affectionately known, were raised from 1843 onwards. However, it is generally held that the unit came into being in 1849 as the Trans-Frontier Brigade, raised by the Punjab Government to protect the Province and especially its much-exposed North-West Frontier. The unit was redesignated the Punjab Irregular Force in 1851 and again as the Punjab Frontier Force in 1865, by which time it had grown considerably in size. In 1886 it was transferred from the control of the Punjab Government to the Commander-in-Chief, India. Though it ceased to exist as a separate unit after Lord Kitchener’s reforms of 1903 when Commander-in-Chief, India, the Punjab Frontier Force's esprit de corps lived on.
National Army Museum
London
Title
The Punjab Frontier Force Memorial on the Maidan at Kohat, c.1955
Date
1975
Medium
oil on board
Measurements
H 76.3 x W 102.2 cm
Accession number
NAM. 1998-10-3
Acquisition method
gift from the Punjab Frontier Force Association, 1998
Work type
Painting
