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'''Red Shirt''' and '''Afridi Rebellions'''

==Clasp to the India General Service Medal 1908-1935==
A clasp "North West Frontier 1930-31" was awarded for service during the Red Shirt and Afridi Rebellions on the North-West Frontier of India between 23rd April 1930 and 22nd March 1931. While the Afridi uprising was a traditional Frontier tribal revolt, the Red Shirt Rebellion was essentially political in nature, inspired by the Indian Independence movement unfolding in the rest of British India. As such, it was a first for the Frontier.<ref>[http://www.king-emperor.com/Campaign%20Medals.html Campaign Medals India General Service Medal 1908-1935]  King –Emperor.com</ref>

Details of the the clasp eligibility are available.<ref>[http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/britishguide/india_general_service_1908_award.htm India General Service Medal 1908 Clasp Award Criteria] North East Medals</ref>

===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n39/mode/2up North- West Frontier] page 9 ''India in 1930-1931'' Archive.org
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Du7IVSjOdRAC&pg=PA341 "Datta Khel May 1930"] page 341 "Armoured Fighting Vehicles in Action" by Lieutenant Robert J Icks, Infantry (Tanks) Reserve.  ''Coast Artillery Journal'' [USA]  Sept-Oct 1933 Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284708/2015.284708.Usi-Journal#page/n67/mode/2up "Two recent actions against Afridis"] I-The Night operations against Spintigga 10/11th March 1931; II- The Action in the Gandao Kotal 18th March 1931 (page 73). From pages 62-86 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India'',  Volume 62, 1932  Archive.org
*''Official History of Operations on the North-West Frontier of India 1920-1935 Parts I, II, III''   [by General Staff Army Headquarters, India]. Published by the Manager of Publications, Delhi 1945. 
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.449186/page/69/mode/2up  Page 71] "Part II The Afridi and Red Shirt Rebellion, 1930-31; The Mohmand and Bajaur Operations, 1933".   Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
:It is also available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/official-history-of-operations-on-the-north-west-frontier-of-india-1920-1935/ ''Official History of Operations on the North-West Frontier of India 1920-1935''] Naval & Military Press</ref> which in turn is available as part of an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3  [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvs1LINNg2y ''Official History of Operations on the NW Frontier of India'']  (located in Military books/India and  consisting of 2 books).

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