As units, the AFI were tasked for home defence and 'aid to the civil power' in WWII, though there is an interesting history - I have a copy somewhere - of a group of the 'Calcutta Tight Horse', offcially the Calcutta Light Horse, who snuck into Goa, 'unoffcially' and took out a German ship which was supporting U boat and merchant raider operations in the Indian Ocean.
I can also easily imagine an AFI type who won an award while attached to an AI or British unit getting it issued with the name of his home unit on it, as Corproal Cooper apparently did.
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