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*[https://web.archive.org/save/_embed/http://lib.uofk.edu/multisites/UofK_lib/images/stories/libpdf/sud.lib.imperial%20policing.pdf ''Imperial Policing'']  by Major-General Sir Charles W Gwynn 1939 Archive.org (pdf). Also available as a  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/275121 pdf download], Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275121  Archive.org version].  Includes Chapter 10, "Peshawar District 1930", page 253 and Chapter 14, "Waziristan 1937"  page 394.
*[https://web.archive.org/save/_embed/http://lib.uofk.edu/multisites/UofK_lib/images/stories/libpdf/sud.lib.imperial%20policing.pdf ''Imperial Policing'']  by Major-General Sir Charles W Gwynn 1939 Archive.org (pdf). Also available as a  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/275121 pdf download], Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.275121  Archive.org version].  Includes Chapter 10, "Peshawar District 1930", page 253 and Chapter 14, "Waziristan 1937"  page 394.
*''Bugles and a Tiger'' by John Masters  is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, in TIFF format or as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/278629  pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278629  Archive.org version]; or [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/201985  another pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201985  Archive.org version],  the latter is the  1965 edition or  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/525270  pdf download, catalogued 1956]. The original edition  [http://archive.org/details/buglesandtigervo00mast ''Bugles and a Tiger; a Volume of Autobiography''] published in 1956 is available to read online through the Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. The main restriction is that only one person can see a particular book at one time (so the book may be "on loan'). For more details see [[Online books#Archive.org|Online books-Archive.org]]
*''Bugles and a Tiger'' by John Masters  is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, in TIFF format or as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/278629  pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278629  Archive.org version]; or [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/201985  another pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201985  Archive.org version],  the latter is the  1965 edition or  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/525270  pdf download, catalogued 1956]. The original edition  [http://archive.org/details/buglesandtigervo00mast ''Bugles and a Tiger; a Volume of Autobiography''] published in 1956 is available to read online through the Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. The main restriction is that only one person can see a particular book at one time (so the book may be "on loan'). For more details see [[Online books#Archive.org|Online books-Archive.org]]
:[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.278629/2015.278629.Bugles-And#page/n215/ Pathan social customs] pages 212-213, including the wearing, by men, of roses in their hair.
*''India’s North-West Frontier'' by Sir William Barton 1939 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, in TIFF format , or as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/281565 pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281565  Archive.org  mirror version].  The author was  in the Indian Civil Service and Indian Political Service for 35 years. It is also available to [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1939-indias-north-west-frontier-by-barton-s-pdf/ download as a pdf]  from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pell_Barton William Pell Barton] Wikipedia.  
*''India’s North-West Frontier'' by Sir William Barton 1939 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, in TIFF format , or as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/281565 pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281565  Archive.org  mirror version].  The author was  in the Indian Civil Service and Indian Political Service for 35 years. It is also available to [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1939-indias-north-west-frontier-by-barton-s-pdf/ download as a pdf]  from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Pell_Barton William Pell Barton] Wikipedia.  
*Actions in Waziristan continued during WW2, although details are not known. Awards appearing in the ''London Gazette Supplement''s indicate some of the regiments involved. There were also awards to RAF personnel.[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34977/supplement/6175 1939] ''LGS'' 25 October 1940, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35195/supplement/3495 1940] ''LGS'' 20 June 1941, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35825/supplement/5495 1942] ''LGS'' 15 December 1942, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36261/page/5176  1943] ''LGS'' 25 November 1943
*Actions in Waziristan continued during WW2, although details are not known. Awards appearing in the ''London Gazette Supplement''s indicate some of the regiments involved. There were also awards to RAF personnel.[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34977/supplement/6175 1939] ''LGS'' 25 October 1940, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35195/supplement/3495 1940] ''LGS'' 20 June 1941, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35825/supplement/5495 1942] ''LGS'' 15 December 1942, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36261/page/5176  1943] ''LGS'' 25 November 1943

Revision as of 07:17, 29 July 2018

North West Frontier Campaigns
1849-1947
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location:
Combatants:
East India Company and British Army North West Frontier tribes
Result: Suppression of border incursions
Medals:
India General Service medal 1854
India Medal 1895-1902
Links:
Category: Category:North West Frontier Campaigns


From 1849 when the East India Company annexed the Punjab it became necessary to prevent incursion by the frontier Pakhtun tribes. Successive punitive expeditions subdued particular areas until further outrages occurred. Control of the region depended to a large extent on the Punjab Frontier Force recruited from local tribesmen commanded by British officers.

North West Frontier Expeditions

For a list of campaigns in order see

Medals

British Library holdings

India Office Records, which may be located by using the British Library Search include:

  • Collection 391 North West Frontier Operations 1897 IOR/L/MIL/7/15855-15939 1897-1923
  • Collection 403 Frontier and Overseas Expeditions IOR/L/MIL/7/16820-16978 1901-1944
  • War Diary [Collection], Army Headquarters India, Frontier Operations. GSI, 1914-20. 56 vols. IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4066-4121. Printed volumes from the Military Library.
  • Political and Secret Department Library IOR/L/PS/20 1757-1952. A very large and varied collection of confidential prints, official publications and commercially published works, analogous to the Military Library (see under L/MIL/17), it largely consists of military reports, gazetteers, summaries of correspondence, handbooks etc. dealing with the Indian States, the frontier regions and neighbouring countries. There is a separate index. Includes

Imperial War Museums holdings

The Imperial War Museums are a source of information about operations in Waziristan. Search the catalogue.

Catalogue entry for the publication Bibliography of sources in the Departments of Documents, Photographs, Printed Books and Sound Records at the Imperial War Museum on military operations in Waziristan on the North West Frontier of India 1917-1937, published c 1979.

Also see

Recommended Reading

  • John Archibald Hislop was an officer in the Indian Army, 2nd Battalion 9th Jat Regiment from 1933. He had a series of postings on the North West Frontier. Subsequently he was GS02 Waziristan District until c.August 1943. His memoirs A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947 were published by his daughter in 2010 and reviewed in FIBIS Journal 26.

External Links

Maps

Histories

Photographs

Historical books online

Update: The Digital Library of India website is not currently operating. Use Archive.org mirror version links where available.

1910 edition Archive.org
'The Defence of India' by F. A. McKenzie, from The Great War edited by H.W. Wilson, volume 7, chapter 128. greatwardifferent.com, now an archived website. Scroll down to the section about the North West Frontier including Shabkadar.
Turmoil and Tragedy in India, 1914 and After by Lieut.-General Sir George MacMunn 1935 is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website, in TIFF format. It is catalogued as Turmoil The Tragedy In India 1914. It is also available as a pdf to download from DLI, Archive.org version.
Pathan social customs pages 212-213, including the wearing, by men, of roses in their hair.
Routes
  • Routes on the North-West Frontier compiled (for political and military reference) under the orders of the Quarter Master General in India, in the Intelligence Branch, in 1887 ; brought up to date in October 1892 by W.R. Robertson. Confidential.Volume I, Volume 2 Pdf downloads, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
  • 1890 Military Routes to the Indo-Afghan Frontier by Lessar (secret)] Notes: At head of title: Secret. "From Russian official "records" of geographical, topographical and statistical materials on Asia. Collected by the Military Scientific Committee of the Headquarters Staff, 1890. Translated for the Intelligence Division of the War Office". HMSO. Author: P. M. Lessar, (Pavel Mikhailovich) Pdf download, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
  • 1893 Routes from Russian Territory toward Afghanistan and India - the Pamir line of Advance by Robertson (confidential). Full title: Routes from Russian Territory in Central Asia towards Afghanistan and India. Section 1, The Pamir line of advance compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter Master General's Department in India by W.R. Robertson. 1893. Contents: pt. 1. Short military report on the Ferghana province, Kashgar, the Pamirs and Upper Oxus Afghan provinces ... - pt. 2. Includes all routes leading from the Chimkend Kuldja postal road to the Hindu Kush between the Dorah and the Karakorum Passes. Pdf download, Pahar- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
  • Strategical Epitome of Routes on and beyond the North-West Frontier of India by General Staff India (confidential) 1912 Pdf download, Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
Fiction

References

  1. "GTG [Capt. George Theodore Gill, 2/6th Gurkha Rifles] on the North West Frontier 1915" (scroll down) gillww1, from National Archives WO 160/732, one of a number of reports WO160/732-742.