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|date=2-19 January 1898 | |date=2-19 January 1898 | ||
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|combatant2=Bunerwals | |combatant2=Bunerwals | ||
|commander1=[ | |commander1=[[Bindon Blood|Brig Gen Sir Bindon Blood]] | ||
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[[Image:Bunermap.jpg|thumb|Buner 1909]] | |||
The '''Buner Field Expedition''' of 1898. | |||
==Buner Field Force== | ==Buner Field Force== | ||
'''First Brigade'''<br>''Brig Gen W.H.Meiklejohn CB CMG'' | '''First Brigade'''<br>''Brig Gen W.H.Meiklejohn CB CMG'' | ||
*[[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Batt Royal West Kent Regt]] | |||
*[[16th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|16th Bengal Infantry]] | |||
*[[20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|20th Punjab Infantry]] | |||
*[[31st Regiment of Punjab Infantry|31st Punjab Infantry]] | |||
'''Second Brigade'''<br>''Brig Gen P.D.Jeffreys CB'' | '''Second Brigade'''<br>''Brig Gen P.D.Jeffreys CB'' | ||
*[[3rd Regiment of Foot|1st Batt East Kent Regt]] | |||
*[[21st Regiment of Punjab Infantry|21st Punjab Infantry]] | |||
*[[Corps of Guides, Punjab Irregular Force|Guides Infantry]] | |||
'''Divisional Troops'''<br>10th Bengal Lancers (1 Squadron) | '''Divisional Troops'''<br> | ||
*[[10th Bengal Lancers (Hodson's Horse)|10th Bengal Lancers (1 Squadron)]] | |||
*10th Field Battery [[Royal Artillery]] | |||
*No7 Mountain Battery [[Royal Artillery]] | |||
*No 8 Bengal Mountain Battery | |||
*[[Bengal Sappers and Miners|No 4 Coy Bengal Sappers & Miners]] | |||
*No 5 Coy [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras Sappers & Miners]] | |||
*[[74th Regiment of Foot|2nd Batt Highland Light Infantry]] | |||
*[[3rd Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry|3rd Bombay Light Infantry]] | |||
*2.5 British Field Hospitals | |||
*4 Native Field Hospitals<br> | |||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(military_history)#1878-1898 | [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]<br>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C07E5D81039E433A2575AC0A9679C94699ED7CF&oref=slogin New York Times article] www.antiquesatoz.com | |||
==== Historical books online ==== | |||
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas01indi#page/312/mode/2up Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol I - Buner Field Expedition] archive.org | |||
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontiercampaign00dunmrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''A frontier campaign: a narrative of the operations of the Malakand and Buner field forces, 1897-1898''] by the Viscount Fincastle and P. C. Eliott-Lockhart 2nd edition 1898 Archive.org | |||
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n7/mode/2up ''Four Score Years and Ten: Sir Bindon Bloodʼs Reminscences''] by General Sir Bindon Blood, Representative Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers 1933. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5049/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file] where images have been rotated. Archive.org. Born 1842, he went to India in 1871, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n65/mode/2up page 47]. Commanded Buner Field Force 1898 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n335/mode/2up page 310]. | |||
[[Category:North West Frontier Campaigns|Buner Field Expedition 1898]] | |||