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*Actions in Waziristan continued during WW2, although details are not known. Awards appearing in the ''London Gazette Supplement''s indicate some of the regiments involved. There were also awards to RAF personnel.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34977/supplements/6175 1939] ''LGS'' 25 October 1940, [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35195/supplements/3495 1940] ''LGS'' 20 June 1941, [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35825/supplements/5495 1942] ''LGS'' 15 December 1942, [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36261/pages/5176  1943] ''LGS'' 25 November 1943
*Actions in Waziristan continued during WW2, although details are not known. Awards appearing in the ''London Gazette Supplement''s indicate some of the regiments involved. There were also awards to RAF personnel.[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34977/supplements/6175 1939] ''LGS'' 25 October 1940, [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35195/supplements/3495 1940] ''LGS'' 20 June 1941, [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/35825/supplements/5495 1942] ''LGS'' 15 December 1942, [http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/36261/pages/5176  1943] ''LGS'' 25 November 1943
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/IndianMountainArtillery/mountainartillery#page/n3/mode/2up ''The History of the Indian Mountain Artillery''] by Brigadier-General C A L Graham 1957 Archive.org.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/IndianMountainArtillery/mountainartillery#page/n3/mode/2up ''The History of the Indian Mountain Artillery''] by Brigadier-General C A L Graham 1957 Archive.org.
*''Brief Gazetteer of Most Important and Useful Place Names in Waziristan District''. 1935 is available to download as a pdf  from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]], located under Books, Indian Subcontinent, 1935


== Recommended Reading ==
== Recommended Reading ==

Revision as of 03:00, 26 July 2015

North West Frontier Campaigns
1849-1947
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location:
Combatants:
East India Company and British Army North West Frontier tribes
Result: Suppression of border incursions
Medals:
India General Service medal 1854
India Medal 1895-1902
Links:
Category: Category:North West Frontier Campaigns


From 1849 when the East India Company annexed the Punjab it became necessary to prevent incursion by the frontier Pakhtun tribes. Successive punitive expeditions subdued particular areas until further outrages occurred. Control of the region depended to a large extent on the Punjab Frontier Force recruited from local tribesmen commanded by British officers.

North West Frontier Expeditions

For a list of campaigns in order see

Medals

British Library holdings

India Office Records include:

Imperial War Museums holdings

The Imperial War Museums are a source of information about operations in Waziristan. Search the catalogue.

Catalogue entry for the publication Bibliography of sources in the Departments of Documents, Photographs, Printed Books and Sound Records at the Imperial War Museum on military operations in Waziristan on the North West Frontier of India 1917-1937, published c 1979.

Also see

Recommended Reading

  • John Archibald Hislop was an officer in the Indian Army, 2nd Battalion 9th Jat Regiment from 1933. He had a series of postings on the North West Frontier. Subsequently he was GS02 Waziristan District until c.August 1943. His memoirs A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947 were published by his daughter in 2010 and reviewed in FIBIS Journal 26.

External Links

Maps

Histories

  • "Waziristan's last soldier" by Zubeida Malik BBC 8 November 2008 with a slideshow of photographs. Frank Leeson spent two years commanding 1,000 Khassadars- Waziri soldiers- between 1946 and 1948, the last surviving British officer to have served in North Waziristan.

Pictures

Historical books online

Recommended Reading

Campaigns on the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill DSO 1916
Reprinted by The Naval & Military Press Ltd 2005
ISBN 1-845741-87-0
Imperial Frontier: Tribe & State in Waziristan by Dr Hugh Beattie
Routledge 2001
ISBN 0700713093 and ISBN 978-0700713097

References