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*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/420601.html Operations in Mekran: Baluchistan 1898-1902] from [http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/home.html  Harry’s Sideshows] by Harry Fecitt (kaiserscross.com)
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/420601.html Operations in Mekran: Baluchistan 1898-1902] from [http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/home.html  Harry’s Sideshows] by Harry Fecitt (kaiserscross.com)
*[http://peek-01.livejournal.com/23643.html  The Life and Death of Lieutenant Neville Rudd Thompson  of the 21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers] by Ross Dix-Peek. Lieutenant Thompson and the 21st Lancers, and their part in the Battle at Shabkadar on the 5 September 1915 on the North West Frontier.
*[http://peek-01.livejournal.com/23643.html  The Life and Death of Lieutenant Neville Rudd Thompson  of the 21st (Empress of India’s) Lancers] by Ross Dix-Peek. Lieutenant Thompson and the 21st Lancers, and their part in the Battle at Shabkadar on the 5 September 1915 on the North West Frontier.
*[http://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/gtg-on-the-north-west-frontier-1915    Capt George Theodore Gill and the 2/6th Gurkha Rifles on the North West Frontier 1915] from David Gill’s gillww1
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=702 War in the Switzerland of Asia: Swat Valley]. Online papers  from part of the collection of General Sir Frederick Campbell charting two key campaigns in Swat  1915. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier.<br>
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=702 War in the Switzerland of Asia: Swat Valley]. Online papers  from part of the collection of General Sir Frederick Campbell charting two key campaigns in Swat  1915. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier.<br>
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/waziristan.htm Waziristan Campaign 1917] from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment]
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/waziristan.htm Waziristan Campaign 1917] from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment]

Revision as of 00:59, 25 October 2012

North West Frontier Campaigns
1849-1947
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location:
Combatants:
East India Company and British Army North West Frontier tribes
Result: Suppression of border incursions
Medals:
India General Service medal 1854
India Medal 1895-1902
Links:
Category: Category:North West Frontier Campaigns


Summary

From 1849 when the East India Company annexed the Punjab it became necessary to prevent incursion by the frontier Pakhtun tribes. Successive punitive expeditions subdued particular areas until further outrages occurred. Control of the region depended to a large extent on the Punjab Frontier Force recruited from local tribesmen commanded by British officers.

North West Frontier Expeditions

For a list of campaigns in order see

British Library holdings

The following books are available at the British Library

  • Operations against the Orakzai tribe on the Miranzai frontier under the command of Brigadier-General Sir W.S.A. Lockhart, K.C.B., C.S.I., in 1891 compiled from official sources (under the orders of the Quarter-Master General in India) by A.H. Mason. 1891
  • Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Volume 1, supplement A: Operations against the Mohmands (including operations in the Khaiber, 1st-7th May) by Intelligence Branch Army Headquarters India 1908
  • Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Volume 2. North-West Frontier Tribes between the Kabul and Gumal Rivers by Intelligence Branch Army Headquarters India 1908
  • Official History of operations on the N.-W. Frontier of India, 1920-35 by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1945. Available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop
  • Official History of operations on the N.W. Frontier of India, 1936-37 by General Staff Army Headquarters, India 1943. Available through Amazon.co.uk from the FIBIS Shop

External Links

Historical books on-line

Recommended Reading

Campaigns on the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill DSO 1916
Reprinted by The Naval & Military Press Ltd 2005
ISBN 1-845741-87-0
Imperial Frontier: Tribe & State in Waziristan by Dr Hugh Beattie
Routledge 2001
ISBN 0700713093 and ISBN 978-0700713097