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Tirah Campaign
Part of North West Frontier Campaigns
Date:	10 June 1897-April 1898
Location:	Tirah, NWF
Presidency:	Bengal
Co-ordinates:	33.798237°N 70.135386°E
Result:	Submission of tribes
Combatants
British & Indians	Afridi & Orakzai tribesmen
Commanders
Lt Gen Sir William Lockhart
Strength
British Officers 1,010 British Troops 10,882 Indian Troops 22,614 Total 34,506 Non-combatants 19,934	40-50,000
Casualties

The Tirah Campaign took place in 1897-98.

FIRST DIVISION

Commander: Brig-Gen William Penn Symons
First Brigade
Col I.S.M.Hamilton CB DSO
Succeeded by Brig Gen R.Hart VC CB

Second Brigade
Commander: Brig Gen A.Gaselee CB

Divisional Troops

SECOND DIVISION

Commander: Maj-Gen A G Yeatman-Biggs
Third Brigade
Brig Gen F.J.Kempster DSO

Fourth Brigade
Brig Gen R.Westmacott CB DSO

Divisional Troops

North West Frontier Military History Wikipedia
NWF Expeditions www.antiquesatoz.com
Tirah Campaign Wikipedia
Tirah Campaign description on roll-of-honour.com
Lieut MacLean VC Wikipedia
Lt-Col Robert Adams VC Wikipedia
Lieut Alexander Murray VC Wikipedia
The Devonshire Regiment and the Tirah Campaign from Devon heritage
Pathan Revolt – 1897 Globalsecurity.org
"The 1897 Revolt and Tirah Valley Operations from the Pashtun Perspective" by Robert A Johnson November 2009 Tribal Analysis Center html version, Original pdf
The Tirah Campaign: Recollections of Surgeon Captain A.E. Masters Queensroyalsurreys.org
Tirah: photographic journalism A photograph album from Black and White War Album: No. 3 The Tirah Campaign published 1899 “includes photography of war fighting, camps, mountain terrain, war dead, the Gordon Highlanders in action, wounded soldiers and gun batteries” King’s College London Collections. This book is also available at the National Army Museum, London
Photographs: The Tirah Campaign bonhams.com Click on the small picture to enlarge.

The Pathan Revolt in North-West India by H. Woosnam Mills 1897 Archive.org
The Campaign in Tirah 1897-98 by Col H D Hutchinson 1898 Archive.org
The Indian Frontier War being an account of the Mohmund and Tirah expeditions, 1897 by Lionel James 1898 Archive.org
Lockhart's advance through Tirah by Leonard Julius Shadwell 1898 Archive.org
Lieutenant-Colonel John Haughton, commandant of the 36th Sikhs:a hero of Tirah. A memoir by Major A.C. Yate 1900 Archive.org
Tirah Imperial Gazetteer of India 1908 Archive.org
Tirah, 1897 by Colonel C E Callwell 1911 Hathi Trust Digital Library. A book in the series Campaigns and their Lessons.
A short comment about the Tirah Campaign: Page 108 Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org
"Report on the Surgical History of the Tirah Expeditionary Force 1897-98" by Lieutenant-Colonel HR Whitehead FRCS Eng, Royal Army Medical Corps, page 457 Army Medical Department Report for the Year 1897 Volume 39 1898 Archive.org. Includes comments on the "different kinds of rifles and guns used by the enemy and the peculiar wounds caused by each variety"
Through Three Campaigns: a Story of Chitral, Tirah, and Ashanti by G. A. Henty , illustrated by Wal Paget. c 1904 Archive.org. An adventure story for younger readers.

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 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/lieutenantcolone00yate#page/n7/mode/2up ''Lieutenant-Colonel John Haughton, commandant of the 36th Sikhs:a hero of Tirah. A memoir''] by Major A.C. Yate 1900 Archive.org<br>
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/northwestfrontie00calcuoft#page/232/mode/2up Tirah] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'' 1908 Archive.org<br>
+*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015017670491?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Tirah, 1897''] by Colonel C E Callwell 1911 Hathi Trust Digital Library. A book in the series ''Campaigns and their Lessons''.
 *A short comment about the Tirah Campaign: [http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/108/mode/2up Page 108] ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha'' by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org
 *[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportarmymedic03unkngoog#page/n472/mode/1up "Report on the Surgical History of the Tirah Expeditionary Force 1897-98"] by Lieutenant-Colonel HR Whitehead FRCS Eng, Royal Army Medical Corps, page 457 ''Army Medical Department Report for the Year 1897 Volume 39'' 1898 Archive.org. Includes comments on the "different kinds of rifles  and guns used by the enemy and the peculiar wounds caused by each variety"