Baber on wargames: March 2020

Punjabi rifle company

A representative unit for use in our Syria/Lebanon games

A mix or Tumbling Dice and SHQ figures some with minor conversions, I`ve created a reinforced company unit based around 10-figure platoons, but added a support platoon and Company HQ as a command element.

Tumbling Dice riflemen (there are 3 packs of these)

Tumbling dice command pack minus the dead figure (2 of these packs)

SHQ Boys AT rifle with his Tumbling Dice (TD from here on) No2

SHQ Bren gunner with his TD No2

SHQ Bren team

SHQ 2 inch mortar team

SHQ moving bren gunner with a TD No2

SHQ HQ figures (the guy in the centre has TD head)

SHQ HQ figures (the guy carrying the radio has a TD head)

1st platoon

2nd platoon

3rd platoon

Support platoon

(Boys team, 2" mortar team, 4 rifles plus a Subaltern)

Coy HQ

TransJordan Frontier Force

The Trans-Jordan Frontier Force was formed on 1 April 1926, to replace the disbanded British Gendarmerie. It was a creation of the British High Commissioner for Palestine whose intention was that the Force should defend Trans-Jordan's northern and southern borders. The TJFF was also an Imperial Service regiment whose Imperial Service soldiers agreed to serve wherever required and not just within the borders of their own colony, protectorate or, in the case of the Transjordan, mandate. This was in contrast to the Arab Legion, which was seen more as an internal security militia, deriving from the troops of the Arab Revolt and closely associated with the Hashemite cause. The Amir Abdullah was an Honorary Colonel of the Trans-Jordan Frontier Force from its inception. However, the local commanders thought it unnecessary to form an additional force, illustrated that the expansion of The Arab Legion would be a better action.

https://homepages.force9.net/rothwell/trans-jo1.htm