Frontier Force

Frontier Force usually means any of a Paramilitary type border security or border guard, it can mean any of the following:

  • Frontier Force Regiment (popularly known as the "Piffers" or the "FF"), one of six Infantry regiments in the Pakistan Army. Not to be confused with the Frontier Corps
  • 10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps Of Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force), part of the British Indian Army.
  • 11th Prince Albert Victor's Own Cavalry (Frontier Force), part of the British Indian Army.
  • 12th Cavalry (Frontier Force), part of the British Indian Army.
  • 12th Frontier Force Regiment, part of the British Indian Army
  • 13th Frontier Force Rifles, part of the British Indian Army, formed in 1922 by amalgamation of five existing regiments
  • Royal West African Frontier Force, a multi-battalion field force, formed by the British Colonial Office in 1900
  • Special Frontier Force, a paramilitary unit of India
  • Transjordan Frontier Force
  • Liberian Frontier Force (LFF), which later became the Armed Forces of Liberia

See also:

  • Frontier Corps

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