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[[Category:North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908|Chitral Campaign 1895]]
{{War|name=Chitral Campaign |dates= January-April 1895 |image= |location=[[Chitral]], NWF|combatant1=British & Indians |combatant2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitral_District#Population Chitrali tribesmen] |result= <br>Submission of tribes |medal=<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India_Medal India General Service Medal (1895-1902)]<br>Clasps: Defence of Chitral 1895, Relief of Chitral 1895
{{Battles_Infobox
|category=[[:Category:North West Frontier Campaigns |North West Frontier Campaigns ]]}}
|partof=[[:Category:North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908|North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908]]
{{Battlemap|war=Chitral Campaign|link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?t=p&hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=101241150585833319689.0004775382e9e31905b7b&ll=35.366656,71.8396&spn=6.646067,7.833252&z=7 }}
|date=1 April-15 May 1895
 
|location= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitral_District Chitral, NWF]
== Summary ==
|presidency=[[Bengal]]  
The British sent political agent Surgeon Major George Robertson to [[Gilgit]] to report on a dispute between rival claimants to the throne of [[Chitral]]. Sher Afzal attacked the force in Chitral Fort which was then besieged. Colonel James Kelly made an arduous journey through the snowy passes from [[Gilgit]] fighting two actions on the way. He arrived at Chitral to find that the Chitralis have discontinued the siege. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101034607/ Maj-Gen Sir Robert Low's] larger force from [[Nowshera]] stormed the Malakand Pass and broke the Chitrali resistance. The region remained tranquil until further unrest led to the [[Malakand Field Expedition]].
|co-ordinates= [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=35.886041,71.797177&z=14&t=h&hl=en 35.886041°N 71.797177°E] 
|result= Submission of tribes
|territory=
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitral_District#Population Chitrali tribesmen]
|commander1=[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101034607/ Brig Gen Sir Robert Low]
|commander2=
|strength1=15,249
|strength2=
|casualties1=21 killed<br>101 wounded
|casualties2=
}}
== Campaign Actions ==
== Campaign Actions ==
See Category Page [[:Category:Chitral Campaign|Chitral Campaign]]


[[Siege and Relief of Chitral]] <br> [[Battle of Malakand Pass]]
== Chitral Relief Force ==
''15,249 troops under the command of [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101034607/ Brig-Gen Sir Robert Low]''<br>


== Chitral Relief Force ==
'''First Brigade'''<br>Brig Gen A.A.Kinloch CB
'''First Brigade'''<br>Brig Gen A.A.Kinloch CB
*1st Batt Bedfordshire Regt<br>(see [[16th Regiment of Foot]])
*[[16th Regiment of Foot|1st Batt Bedfordshire Regt]]
*1st Batt King's Royal Rifles<br>(see [[60th Regiment of Foot]])
*[[60th Regiment of Foot|1st Batt King's Royal Rifles]]
*15th Sikhs
*[[15th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|15th Sikhs]]
*37th Dogras<br>
*[[37th Regiment of Dogra Infantry|37th Dogras]]
*No 1 British Field Hospital
*No 14 Native Field Hospital
 
'''Second Brigade'''<br>Brig Gen H.G.Waterfield
*[[25th Regiment of Foot|1st Batt King's Own Scottish Borderers]]
*[[Gordon Highlanders|1st Batt Gordon Highlanders]]
*[[4th Regiment of Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|4th Sikhs]]
*[[Corps of Guides, Punjab Irregular Force|Guides Infantry]]
*No 2 British Field Hospital
*No 35 Native Field Hospital
 
'''Third Brigade'''<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Forbes_Gatacre Brig Gen W.F.Gatacre DSO]
*[[3rd Regiment of Foot|1st Batt East Kent Regt]]
*[[72nd Regiment of Foot|2nd Batt Seaforth Highlanders]]
*[[25th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|25th Punjab Infantry]]
*2nd Batt [[4th Gurkha Rifles]]<br>
*No 8 British Field Hospital
*No 19 Native Field Hospital
 
'''Divisional Troops'''<br>
*[[11th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Bengal Lancers|11th Bengal Lancers]]
*[[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force|Guides Cavalry]]
*[[13th (Shekhawati Regiment) Bengal Native Infantry|13th Bengal Infantry]]
*[[23rd Punjab Pioneers]]
*15th Field Battery [[Royal Artillery]]
*3rd Mountain Battery [[Royal Artillery]]
*8th Mountain Battery [[Royal Artillery]]
*[[Dejarat Mountain Battery|No 2 Dejarat Mountain Battery]]
*3 Companies [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Sappers & Miners]]
*Engineer Field Park from Roorkee
*No 4  British Field Hospital
*No 17 & 18 Native Field Hospitals
*No 1 Veterinary Field Hospital
*Maxim Gun Detachment 1st Batt [[11th Regiment of Foot|Devonshire Regt]]
 
== External links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(military_history)#1878-1898 North West Frontier Military History] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.antiquesatoz.com/stephenherold/nwfrontc.htm NWF Expeditions] www.antiquesatoz.com<br>
[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P-b5cvMuMcgC&pg=PA29&dq=Chitral+1895&as_brr=3&ei=zYM1Sb7QOo6ukATk37COBg#PPA29,M1A37,M1 Chitral Campaign] Google Books<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitral_Expedition Chitral Expedition] Wikipedia<br>
[http://www.khyber.org/publications/011-015/chitralforts.shtml Forts of the Chitral Campaign] www.khyber.org<br>
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_military_personnel_of_the_Chitral_Expedition British military personnel] Wikipedia<br>
Photographs: [https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2001-02-335-57 View of Chitral Fort, 1895] and
[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=2001-02-335-58 Chitral Fort, 1895] from an album of  photographs compiled by Colonel Joseph Hume Balfour, 13th Lancers, Indian Army. National Army Museum NAM. 2001-02-335-57 and NAM. 2001-02-335-58<br>


'''Second Brigade'''<br>Brig Gen H.G.Waterfield<br>1st Batt King's Own Scottish Borderers<br>1st Batt Gordon Highlanders<br>4th Sikhs<br>Guides Infantry<br>
==== Historical books online ====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278586 ''An Offical Account of the Chitral Expendition 1895''] by Captain  W R Robertson 1898. Compiled under the Orders of the Quarter Master General in India. Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas01indi#page/38/mode/2up ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol I'' - "Chitral"]
:[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas01indi#page/520/mode/2up "Chitral Relief Expedition"] page 521, same volume. Both Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/reliefofchitral00youn#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Relief of Chitral''] by Captain G.J. Younghusband  and Captain Frank E. Younghusband  1897 (originally published October 1895) Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/storyofguides00youniala/page/160/mode/2up "The Relief of Chitral"] page 161 ''The Story of the Guides'' by Col G J Younghusband 1908 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/withkellytochit00beyngoog#page/n11/mode/1up ''With Kelly to Chitral''] by Lt W G L Beynon,  1st Battallion 3rd Goorka Rifles, Staff Officer To Colonel Kelly's Relief Force, 1896 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/chitralcampaignn00thomiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Chitral Campaign: a Narrative of Events in Chitral, Swat and Bajour''] by H.C. Thomson  1895 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnb5qr?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Chitral: the Story of a Minor Siege'']  by Sir George S Robertson 1898 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/chitrlstoryofm00robeuoft/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/details/campaignsonnorth00nevi/page/164/mode/2up "The Chitral Campaign"] page  164 ''Campaigns on the North-West Frontier'' by Capt H.L. Nevill 1912. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.525043 ''Townshend of Chitral and Kut: Based on the diaries and private papers of Sir Charles Vere Townshend'']  by Erroll Sherson 1928.    Archive.org, mirror from  Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2525/mode/2up ''Chitral Memories. Events leading up to the Siege''] by  Lieut. Colonel  B E M Gurdon. Originally published  in ''Himalayan Journal'' No 5, 1933.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2562/mode/2up ''Chitral Memories. The Siege of Chitral''] Lieut. Colonel B E M Gurdon.  Originally published  in ''Himalayan Journal'' No 6, 1934. Both Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3473/mode/2up ''Much Sounding of Bugles - The Siege of Chitral 1895''] by John Harris 1975. Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3551/page/239/mode/2up "Chapter 14. Finis Dardarum"] page 240  ''The Gilgit Game: The Explorers of the Western Himalayas 1865-95'' by John Keay 1979.  Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset
*[https://archive.org/details/greatgame00pete/page/482/mode/2up "Chapter 35 The Race for Chitral"] page 483 from''The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia'' by Peter Hopkirk 1992. [https://archive.org/details/greatgame00pete  Book File 1]. [https://archive.org/details/greatgamestruggl00hopk  Book File 2] Archive.org Lending Library. Published in the UK with title ''The Great Game: On Secret Service in High Asia''. "The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia…"
*[http://archive.org/stream/throughthreecamp00hent#page/n7/mode/2up ''Through Three Campaigns: a Story of Chitral, Tirah, and Ashanti''] by G. A. Henty , illustrated by Wal Paget. c 1904 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers.


'''Third Brigade'''<br>Brig Gen W.F.Gatacre DSO<br>1st Batt East Kent Regt<br>2nd Batt Seaforth Highlanders<br>25th Punjab Infantry<br>2nd Batt 4th Gurkhas<br>
'''Divisional Troops'''<br>11th Bengal Lancers<br>15th Field Battery Royal Artillery<br>3rd Mountain Battery Royal Artillery<br>8th Mountain Battery Royal Artillery<br>No2 Dejarat Mountain Battery<br>3 Companies Sappers & Miners<br>Engineer Field Park<br>Half British Field Hospital<br>2 Native Field Hospitals<br>No1 Veterinary Field Hospital<br>Mazim Gun Detachment 1st Batt Devonshire Regt<br>


== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(military_history)#1878-1898 Wikipedia - North West Frontier Military History]<br>[http://www.antiquesatoz.com/stephenherold/nwfrontc.htm NWF Expeditions]<br>[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P-b5cvMuMcgC&pg=PA29&dq=Chitral+1895&as_brr=3&ei=zYM1Sb7QOo6ukATk37COBg#PPA29,M1A37,M1 Google Books - Chitral Campaign]


== Recommended Reading ==
[[Category:Chitral Campaign| Chitral Campaign]]
Campaigns of the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill DSO 1916 <br>Reprinted by The Naval & Military Press Ltd 2005 <br>ISBN 1-845741-87-0
[[Category:North West Frontier Campaigns|Chitral Campaign]]
[[Category:Campaigns with FIBIS Battle Maps|Chitral Campaign]]

Latest revision as of 05:28, 17 August 2024

Chitral Campaign
January-April 1895
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
[[Image:|250px| ]]
Location: Chitral, NWF
Combatants:
British & Indians Chitrali tribesmen
Result:
Submission of tribes
Medals:
India General Service Medal (1895-1902)
Clasps: Defence of Chitral 1895, Relief of Chitral 1895
Links:
Category: North West Frontier Campaigns
See our interactive map of
Chitral Campaign
locations and routes on Google Maps


Summary

The British sent political agent Surgeon Major George Robertson to Gilgit to report on a dispute between rival claimants to the throne of Chitral. Sher Afzal attacked the force in Chitral Fort which was then besieged. Colonel James Kelly made an arduous journey through the snowy passes from Gilgit fighting two actions on the way. He arrived at Chitral to find that the Chitralis have discontinued the siege. Maj-Gen Sir Robert Low's larger force from Nowshera stormed the Malakand Pass and broke the Chitrali resistance. The region remained tranquil until further unrest led to the Malakand Field Expedition.

Campaign Actions

See Category Page Chitral Campaign

Chitral Relief Force

15,249 troops under the command of Brig-Gen Sir Robert Low

First Brigade
Brig Gen A.A.Kinloch CB

Second Brigade
Brig Gen H.G.Waterfield

Third Brigade
Brig Gen W.F.Gatacre DSO

Divisional Troops

External links

North West Frontier Military History Wikipedia
NWF Expeditions www.antiquesatoz.com
Chitral Campaign Google Books
Chitral Expedition Wikipedia
Forts of the Chitral Campaign www.khyber.org
British military personnel Wikipedia
Photographs: View of Chitral Fort, 1895 and Chitral Fort, 1895 from an album of photographs compiled by Colonel Joseph Hume Balfour, 13th Lancers, Indian Army. National Army Museum NAM. 2001-02-335-57 and NAM. 2001-02-335-58

Historical books online

"Chitral Relief Expedition" page 521, same volume. Both Archive.org
  • The Relief of Chitral by Captain G.J. Younghusband and Captain Frank E. Younghusband 1897 (originally published October 1895) Archive.org
"The Relief of Chitral" page 161 The Story of the Guides by Col G J Younghusband 1908 Archive.org
Chitral Memories. The Siege of Chitral Lieut. Colonel B E M Gurdon. Originally published in Himalayan Journal No 6, 1934. Both Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
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