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The Eastern Frontier Rifles (EFR) are a State Armed Police Force for West Bengal in the West Bengal Police jurisdiction (i.e. as opposed to the Kolkata jurisdiction). They are a part of the West Bengal Police. Note the Border Guards Bangladesh are descended from the portion of the Eastern Frontier Rifles given to Pakistan on the partition in 1947. The Eastern Frontier Rifles were founded as the Frontier Protection Force by the East India Company at some point in the second half of the eighteenth century, and have had their current title since 1920. The Eastern Frontier Rifles fought in the Second World War, and, as the Bengal Military Police, in the First World War. In 1947, when India and Pakistan became independent, the force was split between the Indian state of West Bengal, and Pakistan. The Pakistani part became the East Pakistan Rifles, which became the Bangladesh Rifles when Bangladesh became independent, and Border Guards Bangladesh in 2010. The West Bengal part retained its title of Eastern Frontier Rifles. ==History== *18th century: Founded as Frontier Protection Force. *1795: Renamed Ramgarh Local Battalion *1861: Renamed Frontier Guards *1891: Renamed Bengal Military Police, modernised, & given up-to-date weaponry (NB: An unrelated unit, the 45th Sikhs, had previously used this same title) *1920: Re-organised and renamed Eastern Frontier Rifles *1947: Split between West Bengal and Pakistan. The West Bengal portion retained the unit title. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Eastern Frontier Rifles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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