Frontier Corps

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The following structure of the Frontier Corps applied in 1921[1]

Theses units were not “regiments” of the Indian Army, rather they were armed para-military units paid for by the civil purse and under the control of the local Political Agent. Officers were seconded from the Indian Army.

The Khyber Rifles was a similar type of unit which had been disbanded in 1919.

External links

  • Frontier Corps page 57 The Indian Army 1914-1947 by Ian Sumner Google Books
  • Page 313 A Concise History of Afghanistan in 25 Volumes, Volume 1 by Hamid Wahed Alikuzai Google Books
  • The Transfrontier Corps page 144 Edge of Empire‬: ‪The British Political Officer and Tribal Administration on the North-West Frontier, 1877-1947‬ by ‪Christian Tripodi Google Books
  • References to the Kurram Militia: page 58Nothing But!‬: ‪Book Two: The Long Road To Freedom‬ by‬ ‪Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya Google Books
  • Watercolour: Subadar of the Kurram Militia National Army Museum

Footnote

  1. India Army List 1921 online version file page 84 actual page 95