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==British Library holdings==
==British Library holdings==
*''The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account'', with maps,  by General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, published 1926 Calcutta. Now available to download, see below.
*''The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account'', with maps,  by General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, published 1926 Calcutta. Now available online, see below.
*''Afghanistan 1919. An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War'' by Lieutenant- General G. N Molesworth, (George Noble) 1962. UIN: BLL01002520046. Molesworth served as Adjutant to the [[13th Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry]] throughout this conflict.  
*War Diary [Collection], Army Headquarters India, Afghan War, 1919. GSI, 1919. 9 vols IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4057-4065. Printed volumes from the Military Library. Locate these records using the [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1510016459624&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true British Library Search].
*War Diary [Collection], Army Headquarters India, Afghan War, 1919. GSI, 1919. 9 vols IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4057-4065. Printed volumes from the Military Library. Locate these records using the [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1510016459624&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true British Library Search].
==Regimental histories==
*''Frontier Assault: The North Staffordshire Regiment in the Third Afghan War 1919'' by James Green.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Frontier_Asssault.html?id=zodIxQEACAAJ ''Frontier Assault: The North Staffordshire Regiment in the Third Afghan War 1919''] by James Green. Google Books </ref> This book is stated  to include an account of the North-West Frontier during WW1. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01019500027 .


== Medal==
== Medal==
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* Also see [[Medal Rolls]]
* Also see [[Medal Rolls]]


== External Links ==
== External links ==
*[http://www.military-times.co.uk/articles/map-of-the-third-afghan-war.htm Map of the Third Afghan War] Military Times
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War Third Anglo-Afghan War] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War Third Anglo-Afghan War] Wikipedia
*Article [https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/the-1919-war-of-independence-or-third-anglo-afghan-war-a-conflict-the-afghans-started-and-ended/ "The 1919 War of Independence (or third Anglo-Afghan War): a conflict the Afghans started (and ended)"] by Fabrizio Foschini  21 Sep 2019. afghanistan-analysts.org
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bv4hzxpo424C&pg=PA247&dq=Landi+Kotal+1919&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Landi%20Kotal%201919&f=false Third Anglo-Afghan War] Google Books
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bv4hzxpo424C&pg=PA247&dq=Landi+Kotal+1919&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Landi%20Kotal%201919&f=false Third Anglo-Afghan War] Google Books
*[http://www.khyber.org/publications/011-015/britishretreat.shtml "British Retreat from Waziristan"] by Mark Jacobsen khyber.org. Editor of '' Rawlinson in India'' 2002,  a publication of the Army Records Society  v. 19. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01010727125
:[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA195401/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Third Afghan War and the External Position of India, 1919-1924''] by M H Jacobsen. Report presented at the Conference on Asian Studies, Madison Wisconsin 7 November 1987. Defense Technical Information Center DTIC ADA195401 Archive.org . He  also appears to have been the author of a PhD Thesis, University of California ''The Modernisation of the Indian Army 1925-1939'' by Mark Houston Jacobsen (1979), available in a 1983 edition at Imperial War Museums LBY 83/3224, possibly as a microfilm.
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/asymmetry-in-afghanistan-the-poison-gas-option  Asymmetry in Afghanistan - the poison gas option] The Serving Soldier website
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/asymmetry-in-afghanistan-the-poison-gas-option  Asymmetry in Afghanistan - the poison gas option] The Serving Soldier website
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/afghan.htm Third Afghan War - 1919] from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment]
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/afghan.htm Third Afghan War - 1919] from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment]
*[http://www.khyber.org/publications/011-015/britishretreat.shtml "British Retreat from Waziristan"] by Mark Jacobsen khyber.org
*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/results.php?searchType=simple&resultsDisplay=list&simpleText=G+A+Clarke%2C+12th+Pioneers Photographs 1919] compiled by Major G A Clarke, 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment), and 2nd Battalion, 2nd Bombay Pioneers. National Army Museum collection 1963-09-633
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/results.php?searchType=simple&acc=1963-09-633 Photographs 1919] compiled by Major G A Clarke, 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment), and 2nd Battalion, 2nd Bombay Pioneers. National Army Museum collection 1963-09-633
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140830133118/https://sgtregnaldwhite.blogspot.com/2010/07/third-anglo-afghan-war.html Sgt Reginald White 48 Squadron RAF] in the Third Anglo-Afghan War. archive.org
*[http://sgtregnaldwhite.blogspot.com/2010/07/third-anglo-afghan-war.html Sgt Reginald White 48 Squadron RAF] in the Third Anglo-Afghan War. Retrieved 30 August 2014
*[http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/britishguide/india_general_service_1908_award.htm India General Service Medal 1908  Clasp Award Criteria] (scroll down) northeastmedals.co.uk
*[http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/britishguide/india_general_service_1908_award.htm India General Service Medal 1908  Clasp Award Criteria] (scroll down) northeastmedals.co.uk
 
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA506166/mode/2up ''Air Policing''] by Lt Col John E Murphy ASAF. 2009 Master’s Thesis.  Includes the Third Afgan War. Technical Information Center DTIC ADA506166 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA523451/page/n37/mode/2up "The Third Afghan War and the Campaign in Waziristan 1919-1929"] page 32 ''Ever present danger: a concise history of British military operations on the north-west frontier, 1849-1947'' by Matt M Matthews. Occasional Paper 33, June 2010. Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Archive.org.
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT819zsTfAc The Graveyard of Empires Strikes Back - The British-Afghan War of 1919] YouTube video. Note first minute approximately is advertisement.
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31823/supplement/3271 "Operations against Afghanistan"] ''London Gazette Supplement'' 12  March 1920  
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31823/supplement/3271 "Operations against Afghanistan"] ''London Gazette Supplement'' 12  March 1920  
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1926-third-afghan-war-1919-official-account-by-army-hq-india-s-pdf  ''Third Afghan War 1919--Official Account by Army HQ India  1926''] may be downloaded as a pdf  from PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.  
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1926-third-afghan-war-1919-official-account-by-army-hq-india-s-pdf  ''Third Afghan War 1919--Official Account by Army HQ India  1926''] may be downloaded as a pdf  from PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2314/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Includes [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2314/page/n7/mode/1up Map]. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6062/mode/2up/ Archive.org], mirror from Central Secretariat Library Delhi.  
*[https://archive.org/stream/historyofafghani031122mbp#page/n303/mode/2up "The Third Afghan War"], page 270 ''A History of Afghanistan Volume II'' by Brig-Gen Sir Percy Sykes 1940 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/historyofafghani031122mbp#page/n303/mode/2up "The Third Afghan War"], page 270 ''A History of Afghanistan Volume II'' by Brig-Gen Sir Percy Sykes 1940 Archive.org
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by Charles John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. John Morris was an officer  with the [[3rd Gurkha Rifles]] from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the Third Afghan War in 1919), Waziristan and the North West Frontier of India.
*  ''Army. The official names of the battles and other engagements fought by the military forces of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1919, and the Third Afghan War, 1919. Report of the Battles Nomenclature Committee as approved by the Army Council''. This publication is available  on the subscription website ''UK Parliamentary Papers'', reference Command Papers/ Accounts and Papers/ Session: 1921/Paper Number:  Cmd. 1138.  See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for details and suggested access. Your Library needs to have subscribed for the module for this period. Also available at the National Archives, Kew, WO 161/102. There was a reprint edition published c 1992-93.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-records-of-survey-of-india-vol-20-the-war-record-s-pdf/ ''Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920''] 1925. If the download button does not display, locate in Books/Survey Of India, or [https://pahar.in/?wpfb_dl=21751 Direct link] PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jAFEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3  Google Books version] (now full view). [https://archive.org/details/records-survey-india-vol.-20 Archive.org version]. Work of Royal Engineers and other staff  of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by Charles John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3164 Archive.org mirror version]. John Morris was an officer  with the [[3rd Gurkha Rifles]] from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the Third Afghan War in 1919), Waziristan and the North West Frontier of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206761/page/n131/mode/2up Page 88] ''The Story of the 1st & 2nd Battalions, 41st Dogras: Volume I, October 1900 to December 1923 and October 1917 to March 1922'' by Officers of the Regiment [1923] Archive.org.  Part of a chapter about the 3rd Afghan War.
*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Indian-Sappers-and-Miners-1948.pdf ''The Indian Sappers and Miners''] by  E. W. C Sandes [Edward Warren Caulfeild] 1948. (726p). nzsappers.org.nz. Includes a chapter on the 3rd Afghan War.
*[https://archive.org/details/greenhowardsgtwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Green Howards In The Great War 1914-1919''] by Colonel H C Wylly 1926 Archive.org. Includes the Third Afghan War.
*[https://archive.org/details/somersetlight-nfantry/page/n11/mode/2up ''The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall  1927 Archive.org. Includes the Third Afghan War.
:Also note the book by a SLI officer who took part:  ''Afghanistan 1919. An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War'' by Lieutenant- General G. N Molesworth, (George Noble) 1962    available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002520046 .
*[https://archive.org/details/frontierscouts0000chen/page/30/mode/2up "Chapter 5 The Third Afghan War, 1919"] pages 31-49 ''The Frontier Scouts'' by Charles Chenevix Trench 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/originsofconflic0000robe/mode/2up ''The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan''] by  Jeffery J Roberts 2003. Chapter 4 contains a brief reference to the 3rd Afghan War, in its historical context. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/leopardcliff00bree/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Leopard and the Cliff''] by Wallace Breem 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
 
==References==
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Latest revision as of 06:22, 30 November 2023

Summary

3rd Afghan War
6 May – 8 August 1919
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Afghanistan
Combatants:
British Army Afghan regular forces
Result:
British subsidy dicontinued
Afghans regained control of foreign policy
Border with British India confirmed
Medals:
India General Service Medal (1909)
Clasp:Afghanistan NWF 1919
Links:
Category: 3rd Afghan War

Hoping to regain control of foreign policy ceded to the British at the Treaty of Gandamak 1879 and to divert attention from internal strife, Amir Amanullah Khan invaded India on 3 May 1919. Military action took place mostly in the Khyber Pass but Kabul was bombed by the Royal Air Force and the Afghans attacked Thal. The Afghan forces were driven from British Indian territory and the Treaty of Rawalpindi on 8 August ended the British subsidy to Afghanistan which regained the right to conduct its own foreign affairs. The Durand Line defining the border between Afghanistan and the North West Frontier was re-affirmed.

British Library holdings

  • The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account, with maps, by General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, published 1926 Calcutta. Now available online, see below.
  • Afghanistan 1919. An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War by Lieutenant- General G. N Molesworth, (George Noble) 1962. UIN: BLL01002520046. Molesworth served as Adjutant to the 2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry throughout this conflict.
  • War Diary [Collection], Army Headquarters India, Afghan War, 1919. GSI, 1919. 9 vols IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4057-4065. Printed volumes from the Military Library. Locate these records using the British Library Search.

Regimental histories

  • Frontier Assault: The North Staffordshire Regiment in the Third Afghan War 1919 by James Green.[1] This book is stated to include an account of the North-West Frontier during WW1. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01019500027 .

Medal

  • The medal awarded was the India General Service Medal 1908 with clasp Afghanistan N W F 1919
  • Also see Medal Rolls

External links

The Third Afghan War and the External Position of India, 1919-1924 by M H Jacobsen. Report presented at the Conference on Asian Studies, Madison Wisconsin 7 November 1987. Defense Technical Information Center DTIC ADA195401 Archive.org . He also appears to have been the author of a PhD Thesis, University of California The Modernisation of the Indian Army 1925-1939 by Mark Houston Jacobsen (1979), available in a 1983 edition at Imperial War Museums LBY 83/3224, possibly as a microfilm.

Historical books online

Also note the book by a SLI officer who took part: Afghanistan 1919. An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War by Lieutenant- General G. N Molesworth, (George Noble) 1962 available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002520046 .

Fiction

References