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*[https://archive.org/details/lockhartsadvance00shad/page/n9/mode/2up  ''Lockhart's advance through Tirah''] by Leonard Julius Shadwell 1898 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/lockhartsadvance00shad/page/n9/mode/2up  ''Lockhart's advance through Tirah''] by Leonard Julius Shadwell 1898 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284808 ''With The Peshawar Column, Tirah Expeditionary Force''] by Richard Gillham Thomsett, RAMC 1899 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284808 ''With The Peshawar Column, Tirah Expeditionary Force''] by Richard Gillham Thomsett, RAMC 1899 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/2ndbnderbyshirereg-tirah/page/n9/mode/2up ''The 2nd Battalion Derbyshire Regiment in Tirah''] by Captain A K Slessor  1900 Archive.org. ''The Derbyshire Campaign Series No. 5''.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lieutenantcolone00yate#page/n7/mode/2up ''Lieutenant-Colonel John Haughton, commandant of the 36th Sikhs:a hero of Tirah. A memoir''] by Major A.C. Yate 1900 Archive.org<br>
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lieutenantcolone00yate#page/n7/mode/2up ''Lieutenant-Colonel John Haughton, commandant of the 36th Sikhs:a hero of Tirah. A memoir''] by Major A.C. Yate 1900 Archive.org<br>
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/232/mode/2up Tirah] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' 1908 Archive.org<br>
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/232/mode/2up Tirah] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' 1908 Archive.org<br>

Latest revision as of 03:33, 29 June 2023

Tirah Campaign
Part of North West Frontier Campaigns
Date: 10 June 1897-April 1898
Location: Tirah, NWF
Presidency: Bengal
Co-ordinates: 33.798237°N 70.135386°E
Result: Submission of tribes
Combatants
British & Indians Afridi & Orakzai tribesmen
Commanders
Lt Gen Sir William Lockhart
Strength
British Officers 1,010
British Troops 10,882
Indian Troops 22,614
Total 34,506
Non-combatants 19,934
40-50,000
Casualties

The Tirah Campaign took place in 1897-98.

Campaign Actions

Battle of Samana Ridge Aug-Sept 1897
Battle of Dargai Heights Oct 1897

Tirah Field Force

FIRST DIVISION

Commander: Brig-Gen William Penn Symons
First Brigade
Col I.S.M.Hamilton CB DSO
Succeeded by Brig Gen R.Hart VC CB

Second Brigade
Commander: Brig Gen A.Gaselee CB

Divisional Troops

SECOND DIVISION

Commander: Maj-Gen A G Yeatman-Biggs
Third Brigade
Brig Gen F.J.Kempster DSO

Fourth Brigade
Brig Gen R.Westmacott CB DSO

Divisional Troops

Recommended Reading

Campaigns of the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill DSO 1916
Reprinted by The Naval & Military Press Ltd 2005
ISBN 1-845741-87-0
The 1912 edition is available online, refer below.


External links

Historical books online