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[http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/khyberrifles.shtml The Khyber Rifles] Khyber.org<br> | [http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/khyberrifles.shtml The Khyber Rifles] Khyber.org<br> | ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warburton Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI] Wikipedia<br> | [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warburton Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI] Wikipedia<br> | ||
Victorian War Forums [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=7147 thread] commencing 7 June 2012, including some photographs of the officers , and information about the first commandant, Gilbert Gaisford<br> | |||
==== Historical books on-line ==== | ==== Historical books on-line ==== | ||
[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924020369108#page/n12/mode/1up '' Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898''] by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 | [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924020369108#page/n12/mode/1up '' Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898''] by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org | ||
==Footnote== | ==Footnote== | ||
Revision as of 22:48, 13 June 2012
Chronology
- 1878 raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford[1]
- 1881 command taken by Sardar Mohammad Aslam Khan (first Muslim commander)
- 1887 renamed Khyber Rifles
- 1919 disbanded
- 1946 reconstituted from Afridi veterans
- 1947 allocated to Pakistan
External Links
Khyber Rifles Wikipedia
The Khyber Rifles Khyber.org
Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI Wikipedia
Victorian War Forums thread commencing 7 June 2012, including some photographs of the officers , and information about the first commandant, Gilbert Gaisford
Historical books on-line
Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org
Footnote
- ↑ later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years Officers Died website