Khyber Rifles
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 "Inside Khyber Rifles mess". flickr.com
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