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[[Category:Frontier Scouts]]
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== Chronology ==
== Chronology ==
*'''1878''' raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gais Ford
*'''1894''' raised as the local militia in the North Waziristan Agency
*'''1887''' renamed Khyber Rifles
==Also see==
*'''1919''' disbanded
*[[Frontier Corps‎]]
*'''1946''' reconstituted from Afridi veterans
== External links ==
*'''1947''' allocated to Pakistan
*[https://legionmagazine.com/en/2002/11/scouting-on-the-afghan-frontier/ "Scouting On The Afghan Frontier"] by Leonard Richards November 1, 2002 ''Legion Magazine'', Canada. Memories of 1944-46 . The author was with the Tochi Scouts  at Dosalli Post and later with the Zhob Militia in Baluchistan, at Left wing’s headquarters  at Sambaza, and Fort Sandeman, the headquarters.
== External Links ==
 
[http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/tochiscouts.shtml The Tochi Scouts] Khyber.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20180217013516/http://kpktribune.com/index.php/en/bannu/49-khyber-pakhtunkhwa/know-pukhtoonkhwa/608-guardians-of-the-frontier "Guardians of the Frontier"] ''KPK Tribune'', now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120507204811/http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/tochiscouts.shtml The Tochi Scouts] Khyber.org, now an archived webpage
*[http://www.khyber.org/history/a/history_of_the_frontier_corps.shtml History of the Frontier Corps] Khyber.org
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/455322.html  "Tochi Valley Operation: Waziristan 1914-15. The North Waziristan Militia in action on the North-West Frontier"] by Harry Fecitt.  Harry's Sideshows. kaiserscross.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101125084119/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1580495/Brigadier-John-Prendergast.html Obituary: John Prendergast] 1910-2008 ''The Telegraph'' 03 March 2008, archived.  He was awarded the Military Cross when serving with the Tochi Scouts (North Waziristan Transborder Armed Police) in May 1937. He was later awarded a DSO for the Burma Campaign. His books include an autobiography '' Prender’s Progress: a soldier in India, 1931-47'', published 1979,  available at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01009394176
 
===Historical books online===
*[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). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1985. Also available [https://archive.org/details/frontierscouts0000chen/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library].
*[https://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n47/mode/2up Tochi Scouts] page 15 ''India in 1930-1931'' Archive.org
*[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://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/royal-engineers-journals-1939-1945?SearchedRecordsetRegion=World&sourceID=13&utm_source=affiliate&utm_content=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wiki.fibis.org&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=%20fmp_uk&awc=2114 Royal Engineers Journals 1939-1945] is a Searchable database available on the pay website [[Findmypast]], located in the category Armed Forces & Conflict/Second World War. The Journals appear to have been published quarterly in March, June, September and December. 
**"Fortified post for Tochi Scouts at Biche Kashkai and Ghariom" page 542 December 1939 image 67 [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=gbm%2froyalengineers%2fre-journal-1939-december%2f0067 Findmypast link], need to be signed in to Fmp.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-WRlAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA313&ots=_lVNhELSgA&dq=South%20Waziristan%20Scouts&pg=PA313#v=onepage&q=South%20Waziristan%20Scouts&f=false Page 313]  ''A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes, Volume 1'' by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/northwaziristanmilitia18952012/mode/2up ''An Illustrated History of North Waziristan Militia & Tochi Scouts 1895- 2012''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema c 2012. Archive.org.  
:[https://archive.org/details/fullmoonatmiranshah/mode/2up  ''Full Moon At Miranshah: A Military Historian Journal, 2012''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema. The story of writing the history of the Tochi Scouts May-December 2012. Archive.org.
 
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Latest revision as of 12:42, 18 April 2021

Chronology

  • 1894 raised as the local militia in the North Waziristan Agency

Also see

External links

  • "Scouting On The Afghan Frontier" by Leonard Richards November 1, 2002 Legion Magazine, Canada. Memories of 1944-46 . The author was with the Tochi Scouts at Dosalli Post and later with the Zhob Militia in Baluchistan, at Left wing’s headquarters at Sambaza, and Fort Sandeman, the headquarters.

Historical books online

Full Moon At Miranshah: A Military Historian Journal, 2012 by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema. The story of writing the history of the Tochi Scouts May-December 2012. Archive.org.