Frontier Constabulary - British & Commonwealth Military Badge Forum

Traist · #1 08-09-09, 07:33 AM

As promised, here is a picture of my Frontier Constabulary badge. Can anybody confirm that it is Indian? Can anybody tell me what period it was worn? And possibly if it is common or scarce? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Regards Andrew

zob · #2 08-09-09, 12:28 PM

Hi,

About five years ago I was looking through a pile of military magazines from around the late 50's to early 60's, and on the front cover was a picture of a chap wearing this particular badge on the front of his pagri. The explanation on the inside leaf identified him as: "Frontier Constabulary" - and if I remember correctly, implied Pakistan as opposed to India.

I hope this is of some help...

Zob.

Traist · #3 08-09-09, 12:36 PM

Hi Zob, Thank you for the info. Was the picture then current? i.e. 50's/60's or was it a much older picture? Regards Andrew

zob · #4 08-09-09, 02:46 PM

Hi,

Current - and I think something to do with forces that had been invited to take part in the Edinburgh Tattoo. However, this is not mean to say that the " FC " badge does not have a much earlier antecedence.

Zob.

Traist · #5 08-09-09, 06:50 PM

Thank you very much for your input. Have a grand week. Regards Andrew

Gurkha · #6 17-09-09, 08:58 PM

The frontier constabulary are still going strong with the Pakistan security services with the same badge. A google search will give you info and pictures.

regards
steve

blackpowder44 · #7 18-09-09, 08:46 PM

My understanding is that F.C. stood for the Frontier Corps, made up from all the regiments and irregular units on the North West Frontier of India, now the bad lands of Pakistan.See slip on in centre below. John.

Gurkha · #8 20-09-09, 08:18 PM

They have both const & Corps most confusingly. But if you goggle the const in pictures there is a recent photo with the unit flag bearing the same device as the badge that the question was about.
Steve

Traist · #9 21-09-09, 05:08 AM

Thank you very much. Have a grand day. Regards Andrew

revdougal · #10 10-10-09, 04:10 PM

I have a brass (unblackened) cast badge, with "BMP" on the right butt, and "S.R" on the left. I suspect the latter refers to the Samana Rifles, raised 1897, which became a para-military Police Corps : the job the FC does now?

seanus · #11 21-10-09, 07:56 AM

Shin Rifles (SR) of the Burma Military Police (BMP)
A possible alternative for your badge

Sean
www.uniformsotw.com

revdougal · #12 23-10-09, 04:19 PM

Thank you.
Having travelled a bit in Burma I have never come across Shin.
But is it Chin?
Or is it Shan?

revdougal · #13 01-11-09, 05:14 PM

Further to my very first response to this thread, today I met a former Police Officer who served in the Frontier Constabulary on the NWF more than 65 years ago, and nowhere near Burma.
Before asking about the badge, and entirely unprompted, he said that S.R was indeed the Samana Rifles, and that BMP stood for "Border Military Police".

peter monahan · #14 25-11-09, 01:49 AM

Sind Rifles, I think. I believe they are a post-Partition paramilitary unit, like the Frontier Constabulary.

Peter