Six: Sepoy Todar, 2nd Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles India General Service 1936-39, 1 c...
Six: Sepoy Todar, 2nd Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles
India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (14026 Sepoy Todar, 2-13 F. F. Rif.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star, this engraved '2nd Bn 13th Frontier Force Rifles 1942, 17 Indian Div. 1943-46 26 Indian Div.'; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. E. Asia 1945-46 (14026 Sep. Todar, 2 Bn., F. F. Rif.), mounted for wear, cleaned, good very fine (6)
The unit served in the retreat from Burma in 1942 and remained at Assam and Ranchi until November 1943, when it joined the 4th Indian Infantry Brigade. They served in the Arakan in 1944 and thence for the invasion of Ramree Island on 15 January 1945, when they landed at Letpan. Sent to Sumatra in October 1945, the battalion spent over a year in-theatre, seeing fierce fighting with Indonesian partisans; sold with copied research.
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Six: Sepoy Todar, 2nd Battalion, 13th Frontier Force Rifles
India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (14026 Sepoy Todar, 2-13 F. F. Rif.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star, this engraved '2nd Bn 13th Frontier Force Rifles 1942, 17 Indian Div. 1943-46 26 Indian Div.'; War Medal 1939-45; India Service Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. E. Asia 1945-46 (14026 Sep. Todar, 2 Bn., F. F. Rif.), mounted for wear, cleaned, good very fine (6)
The unit served in the retreat from Burma in 1942 and remained at Assam and Ranchi until November 1943, when it joined the 4th Indian Infantry Brigade. They served in the Arakan in 1944 and thence for the invasion of Ramree Island on 15 January 1945, when they landed at Letpan. Sent to Sumatra in October 1945, the battalion spent over a year in-theatre, seeing fierce fighting with Indonesian partisans; sold with copied research.
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