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*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1985-the-frontier-scouts-by-trench-s-pdf/ ''The Frontier Scouts''] by Charles Chenevix Trench 1985. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209758 ''The Great Wall of India''] by Ian Hay [John Hay Beith] 1933. Archive.org. The author visited a friend at Chashmai Fort. This is probably a fictional name. The friend worked for an unnamed Frontier Corps or similar. "Best guess" is [[Tochi Scouts]], based at [[Miranshah]]. | *[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209758 ''The Great Wall of India''] by Ian Hay [John Hay Beith] 1933. Archive.org. The author visited a friend at Chashmai Fort. This is probably a fictional name. The friend worked for an unnamed Frontier Corps or similar. "Best guess" is [[Tochi Scouts]], based at [[Miranshah]]. | ||
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284966/2015.284966.Indian-Army#page/n810/mode/1up Officers employed with Frontier Corps] April 1933 ''Indian Army List'', page 889 Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284966/2015.284966.Indian-Army#page/n810/mode/1up Officers employed with Frontier Corps] April 1933 ''Indian Army List'', page 889 Archive.org | ||
Revision as of 13:07, 8 February 2019
The following structure of the Frontier Corps applied in 1921[1]
These units were not “regiments” of the Indian Army, rather they were armed para-military units paid for by the civil purse and under the control of the local Political Agent. Officers were seconded from the Indian Army.
- Kurram Militia
- North Waziristan Militia later replaced by the Tochi Scouts
- South Waziristan Militia later replaced by South Waziristan Scouts
- Mohmand Militia . In 1922 merged into the Frontier Constabulary
- Chitral Scouts
- Zhob Militia
- Mekran Levy Corps
- Gilgit Scouts
The Khyber Rifles was a similar type of unit which had been disbanded in 1919.
External links
- "Guardians of the Frontier" KPK Tribune. Retrieved 15 February 2015
- Frontier Corps page 57 The Indian Army 1914-1947 by Ian Sumner Google Books
- Page 313 A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes, Volume 1 by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Google Books
- The Transfrontier Corps page 144 Edge of Empire: The British Political Officer and Tribal Administration on the North-West Frontier, 1877-1947 by Christian Tripodi Google Books
- References to the Kurram Militia: page 58 Nothing But!: Book Two: The Long Road To Freedom by Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya Google Books
- Watercolour: Subadar of the Kurram Militia c 1908 National Army Museum
- Photograph: Kurram Militia Post by Randolph Bezzant Holmes c 1919. library.duke.edu
Maps
- Map: "North-West Frontier Province and Kashmir and Jammu" p. 35. Imperial Gazetteer of India, v. 26, Atlas 1931 edition. dsal.uchicago.edu
Historical books online
- The Frontier Scouts by Charles Chenevix Trench 1985. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD).
- The Great Wall of India by Ian Hay [John Hay Beith] 1933. Archive.org. The author visited a friend at Chashmai Fort. This is probably a fictional name. The friend worked for an unnamed Frontier Corps or similar. "Best guess" is Tochi Scouts, based at Miranshah.
- Officers employed with Frontier Corps April 1933 Indian Army List, page 889 Archive.org
Footnote
- ↑ India Army List 1921 online version file page 84 actual page 95