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| | '''For details see main article [[Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90]]''' |
| [[Category:Minor Campaigns|Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90]] | | [[Category:Minor Campaigns|Chin Lushai Expedition 1889-90]] |
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| == Burma Field force ==
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| ''[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101026898/ Brig-Gen William Symons]'' against Chin Tribes<br>
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| '''Northern Column''' Colonel Skene DSO (1,622 troops)
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| *1st Btn [[22nd Regiment of Foot|Cheshire Regiment]] (300)
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| *[[42nd Gurkha Rifles|42nd Gurkha Light Infantry]] (477)
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| *No 5 Coy Queen's Own [[Madras Sappers and Miners]] (95)
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| *[[10th Regiment of Jat Infantry|10th Bengal Infantry]] (460)
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| *[[38th Regiment of Dogra Infantry|38th Bengal Infantry]] (260)<br>
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| '''Southern Column''' Brig-Gen W P Symons (1,859 troops)
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| *1st Btn [[25th Regiment of Foot|King's Own Scottish Borderers]] (500)
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| *1st Bengal Mountain Battery
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| *No 6 Coy Queen's Own [[Madras Sappers and Miners]]
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| *2nd Battalion [[4th Gurkha Rifles|4th Gurkhas]]
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| *[[62nd Punjab Regiment|2nd Madras Infantry]]
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| *Burma Coy Queen's Own [[Madras Sappers and Miners]]
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| == Chittagong Field Force ==
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| ''Col V W Tregear'' against Lushai Tribes (3,400 troops)<br>
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| *2nd Btn [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd Gurkhas]]
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| *Wing 2nd Btn [[4th Gurkha Rifles|4th Gurkhas]]
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| *[[3rd Regiment of Brahman Infantry|3rd Bengal Infantry]]
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| *Detachment [[9th Gurkha Rifles|9th Bengal Infantry]]
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| *[[28th (Pioneer) Regiment of Bombay Infantry|28th Bombay Pioneers]]
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| *No 2 Coy [[Bengal Sappers and Miners]]
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| *Detachment Chittagong Frontier Police
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| == Campaign Actions ==
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| [[Occupation of Tiddim]] 23 January 1889
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| == External Links ==
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| [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YON9iVgsDRUC&pg=PA103&dq=Lushai+1889&as_brr=3&ei=2M30SIr6J5X8ygT61f3JCg&sig=ACfU3U2iSjpZ0sYtvHNYnksxIW-Yj5HZpA Summary of expedition] Google Books<br>
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| [http://ia341333.us.archive.org/0/items/FrontierAndOverseasExpeditionsFromIndiaVolV/FrontierAndOverseasExpeditionsFromIndiaVolV.pdf Chin Operation] archive.org page 330<br>
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| [http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas04indi#page/248/mode/2up Lushai Operation] archive.org<br>
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| [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y8ThjBJrWVUC&pg=PA222&dq=Sikkim+Field+Force&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Sikkim%20Field%20Force&f=false Chin-Lushai 1889-90] War Medals and Their History - Google Books
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