page_title: 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force)
section_title: Genealogy
hierarchical_section_title: 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force) / Genealogy
caption_attribution_description: English: "Frontier Force". Left to Right: Naik 57th Wilde's Rifles and Subedar 53rd Sikhs. Watercolour by Major AC Lovett, 1910. Published in "The Armies of India", 1911.
context_page_description: The 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force) were an infantry regiment of the British Indian Army. It was raised in 1847 as the 3rd Regiment of Infantry The Frontier Brigade. It was designated as the 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force) in 1903 and became 3rd Battalion 12th Frontier Force Regiment in 1922. In 1947, it was allocated to the Pakistan Army, where it continues to exist as 5th Battalion The Frontier Force Regiment.
context_section_description: 1846 3rd Regiment of Infantry The Frontier Brigade
  1847 3rd Regiment of Sikh Local Infantry
  1857 3rd Regiment of Sikh Infantry
  1857 3rd Regiment of Sikh Infantry, Punjab Irregular Force
  1865 3rd Regiment of Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force
  1901 3rd Sikh Infantry
  1903 53rd Sikhs (Frontier Force)
  1922 3rd Battalion (Sikhs) 12th Frontier Force Regiment
  1935 3rd Royal Battalion (Sikhs) 12th Frontier Force Regiment
  1945 3rd Royal Battalion (Sikhs) The Frontier Force Regiment
  1947 3rd Royal Battalion The Frontier Force Regiment
  1956 5th Battalion The Frontier Force Regiment
caption: Naik, 57th Wilde's Rifles and Subedar, 53rd Sikhs (right). Watercolour by Major AC Lovett, 1910.
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