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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-WRlAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA313&ots=_lVNhELSgA&dq=South%20Waziristan%20Scouts&pg=PA313#v=onepage&q=South%20Waziristan%20Scouts&f=false Page 313] ''A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes, Volume 1'' by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Google Books | *[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=-WRlAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA313&ots=_lVNhELSgA&dq=South%20Waziristan%20Scouts&pg=PA313#v=onepage&q=South%20Waziristan%20Scouts&f=false Page 313] ''A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes, Volume 1'' by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Google Books | ||
*[https://archive.org/details/northwaziristanmilitia18952012/mode/2up ''An Illustrated History of North Waziristan Militia & Tochi Scouts 1895- 2012''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema c 2012. Archive.org. | *[https://archive.org/details/northwaziristanmilitia18952012/mode/2up ''An Illustrated History of North Waziristan Militia & Tochi Scouts 1895- 2012''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema c 2012. Archive.org. | ||
:[https://archive.org/details/fullmoonatmiranshah/mode/2up ''Full Moon At Miranshah: A Military Historian Journal, 2012''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema. The story of writing the history of the Tochi Scouts May- | :[https://archive.org/details/fullmoonatmiranshah/mode/2up ''Full Moon At Miranshah: A Military Historian Journal, 2012''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema. The story of writing the history of the Tochi Scouts May-December 2012. Archive.org. | ||
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Revision as of 02:13, 25 May 2020
Chronology
- 1894 raised as the local militia in the North Waziristan Agency
Also see
External links
- "Scouting On The Afghan Frontier" by Leonard Richards November 1, 2002 Legion Magazine, Canada. Memories of 1944-46 . The author was with the Tochi Scouts at Dosalli Post and later with the Zhob Militia in Baluchistan, at Left wing’s headquarters at Sambaza, and Fort Sandeman, the headquarters.
- "Guardians of the Frontier" KPK Tribune, now archived.
- 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
- The Frontier Scouts by Charles Chenevix Trench 1985. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). If the download button does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent/1985. Also available Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
- 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.
- Page 313 A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes, Volume 1 by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Google Books
- An Illustrated History of North Waziristan Militia & Tochi Scouts 1895- 2012 by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema c 2012. Archive.org.
- Full Moon At Miranshah: A Military Historian Journal, 2012 by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema. The story of writing the history of the Tochi Scouts May-December 2012. Archive.org.