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*[https://www.facebook.com/QissaKhwani/photos_stream#!/photo.php?fbid=254317921367761&set=pb.173386152794272.-2207520000.1361624347&type=3&theater Photograph: Khyber Rifles 1889] Qissa Khwani on Facebook | *[https://www.facebook.com/QissaKhwani/photos_stream#!/photo.php?fbid=254317921367761&set=pb.173386152794272.-2207520000.1361624347&type=3&theater Photograph: Khyber Rifles 1889] Qissa Khwani on Facebook | ||
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/commoner/2249805379 Photograph "Inside Khyber Rifles mess"]. flickr.com | *[http://www.flickr.com/photos/commoner/2249805379 Photograph "Inside Khyber Rifles mess"]. flickr.com | ||
*[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043211-RE_171831.html Postcard: Cavalrymen of the Khyber Rifles post stamped 5.6.1929] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043211-VE_216197.html message] From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland | |||
==== Historical books on-line ==== | ==== Historical books on-line ==== | ||
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924020369108#page/n12/mode/1up '' Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898''] by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org | *[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924020369108#page/n12/mode/1up '' Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898''] by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org | ||
Revision as of 02:03, 13 April 2013
Alternative spelling: Khaibar Rifles, Khaiber Rifles
The Khyber Rifles was an armed police or para-military unit, rather than a "regiment" in the Indian Army. "Other ranks" were locally recruited, with officers seconded from the Indian Army which had no control over them as they were paid for from the civil purse.[1]
Chronology
- 1878 raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford[2]
- 1881 command taken by Sardar Mohammad Aslam Khan (first Muslim commander)
- 1887 renamed Khyber Rifles
- 1919 disbanded
- 1946 reconstituted from Afridi veterans
- 1947 allocated to Pakistan
External Links
- Khyber Rifles Wikipedia
- The Khyber Rifles Khyber.org
- Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI Wikipedia
- Victorian War Forums thread commencing 7 June 2012, including some photographs of the officers , and information about the first commandant, Gilbert Gaisford
- Photograph: Khyber Rifles 1889 Qissa Khwani on Facebook
- Photograph "Inside Khyber Rifles mess". flickr.com
- Postcard: Cavalrymen of the Khyber Rifles post stamped 5.6.1929 with message From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
Historical books on-line
- Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org
Footnote
- ↑ Email to User:Maureene reported in this India List post
- ↑ later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years Officers Died website