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*[https://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n47/mode/2up Tochi Scouts] page 15 ''India in 1930-1931'' Archive.org | *[https://archive.org/stream/indiain19301931032269mbp#page/n47/mode/2up Tochi Scouts] page 15 ''India in 1930-1931'' Archive.org | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209758 ''The Great Wall of India''] by Ian Hay [John Hay Beith] 1933. Archive.org. The author visited a friend at Chashmai Fort. This is probably a fictional name. The friend worked for an unnamed Frontier Corps or similar. "Best guess" is Tochi Scouts, based at [[Miranshah]]. | |||
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Revision as of 08:53, 12 September 2018
Chronology
- 1894 raised as the local militia in the North Waziristan Agency
External links
- "Guardians of the Frontier" KPK Tribune. Retrieved 15 February 2015
- Page 313 A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes, Volume 1 by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Google Books
- The Tochi Scouts Khyber.org, now an archived webpage
- History of the Frontier Corps Khyber.org
- "Tochi Valley Operation: Waziristan 1914-15. The North Waziristan Militia in action on the North-West Frontier" by Harry Fecitt. Harry's Sideshows. kaiserscross.com
- Obituary: John Prendergast 1910-2008 The Telegraph 03 March 2008. He was awarded the Military Cross when serving with the Tochi Scouts (North Waziristan Transborder Armed Police) in May 1937. He was later awarded a DSO for the Burma Campaign. His books include an autobiography Prender’s Progress: a soldier in India, 1931-47, available at the British Library
Historical books online
- Tochi Scouts page 15 India in 1930-1931 Archive.org
- The Great Wall of India by Ian Hay [John Hay Beith] 1933. Archive.org. The author visited a friend at Chashmai Fort. This is probably a fictional name. The friend worked for an unnamed Frontier Corps or similar. "Best guess" is Tochi Scouts, based at Miranshah.