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*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=758 ''Isacke Diaries (1897 part 5)''] Handwritten online document. This final part of the 1897 Isacke diary covers the period 1 August until 31 December. It describes Hubert Isacke's involvement in the Malakand Field Force Expedition of July-August 1897 and also describes a long period of illness or injury and hospitalisation in India. The long voyage home includes a stop at Suez. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier<br />
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=758 ''Isacke Diaries (1897 part 5)''] Handwritten online document. This final part of the 1897 Isacke diary covers the period 1 August until 31 December. It describes Hubert Isacke's involvement in the Malakand Field Force Expedition of July-August 1897 and also describes a long period of illness or injury and hospitalisation in India. The long voyage home includes a stop at Suez. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier<br />
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesonservic00hobdiala#page/14/mode/2up Siege of Malakand and Relief of Chakdarra] archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesonservic00hobdiala#page/14/mode/2up Siege of Malakand and Relief of Chakdarra] archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n7/mode/2up ''Four Score Years and Ten: Sir Bindon Bloodʼs Reminscences''] by General Sir Bindon Blood, Representative Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers 1933. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5049/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file] where images have been rotated. Archive.org. Born 1842, he went to India in 1871, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n65/mode/2up page 47].  Commanded Malakand Field Force 1897 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n309/mode/2up page 288].


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

Revision as of 04:38, 8 June 2020

Malakand Field Expedition
7 August-6 December 1897
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
Location: Malakand, NWF
Combatants:
British & Indians Various Swat Valley tribes
Result:
Submission of tribes
Medals:
India General Service Medal (1895-1902)
Clasps: Malakand 1897
Links:
Category: North West Frontier Campaigns


Summary

Increasing unrest culminated in a general uprising under a Pashtun fakir named Saidullah. The British forces at Malakand Camp and Chakdara were attacked but were relieved by forces from Nowshera. The Malakand Field Force fought a series of actions pushing into the Swat and Mohmand Valleys.

Earlier Actions

See also Battle of Malakand Camp 1897 and Battle of Chakdara.
These two actions resulted in the Malakand Field Expedition.

Malakand Field Force

Commanded by Maj Gen Sir Bindon Blood KCB
First Brigade
Brig Gen W.H.Meiklejohn CB CMG

Second Brigade
Brig Gen P.D.Jeffreys CB

Third Brigade
Brig Gen J.H.Wodehouse CB CMG

Divisional Troops

External Links

Wikipedia - North West Frontier Military History
NWF Expeditions
Malakand Field Force Queensroyalsurreys.org

Historical books online

  • The Story of the Malakand Field Force by Winston L Spencer Churchill.1916 First published 1898 Archive.org (A portrait of Maj Gen Bindon Blood KCB provides a frontpiece to this edition)
A Roving Commission My Early Life by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill 1930 Archive.org. He arrived in India 1896, as an officer with the 4th Hussars, who were based in Bangalore. He took leave from his regiment to join the Malakand Field Force as a correspondent. He resigned from the Army and left India 1899.

Recommended Reading

Campaigns of the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill DSO 1916
Reprinted by The Naval & Military Press Ltd 2005
ISBN 1-845741-87-0