Whistle chain, 55th Coke’s Rifles (Frontier Force), 1903-1922 (rubber)

Whistle chain, 55th Coke’s Rifles (Frontier Force), 1903-1922. Silver whistle, chain and boss, with lion head and unit name. The 55th Coke’s Rifles was an infantry regiment raised at Peshawar by Captain John Coke in 1849. Originally called the 1st Regiment of Punjab Infantry, the regiment was designated as the 55th Coke’s Rifles in 1903 and became the 7th Battalion 13th Frontier Force Regiment in 1922. In 1947, it was allocated to the Pakistan Army, where it continues to exist as the 7th Battalion The Frontier Force Regiment. During the Indian Mutiny, the regiment formed part of the column that stormed the Kashmir Gate on 14 September 1857, and in the 2nd Afghan War participated in the capture of the city of Kandahar on 8 January 1879. From the Field Marshal Sir John Chapple Indian Army Collection.