Tirah Campaign: Difference between revisions

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Tirah Campaign
Part of North West Frontier Campaigns 1849-1908
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

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

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