North West Frontier 1930-31

Red Shirt and Afridi Rebellions

Clasp to the India General Service Medal 1908-1935

A clasp "North West Frontier 1930-31" was awarded for service during the Red Shirt and Afridi Rebellions on the North-West Frontier of India between 23rd April 1930 and 22nd March 1931. While the Afridi uprising was a traditional Frontier tribal revolt, the Red Shirt Rebellion was essentially political in nature, inspired by the Indian Independence movement unfolding in the rest of British India. As such, it was a first for the Frontier.

Details of the the clasp eligibility are available.

Historical books online

• North- West Frontier page 9 India in 1930-1931 Archive.org
• "Datta Khel May 1930" page 341 "Armoured Fighting Vehicles in Action" by Lieutenant Robert J Icks, Infantry (Tanks) Reserve. Coast Artillery Journal [USA] Sept-Oct 1933 Google Books.
• "Two recent actions against Afridis" I-The Night operations against Spintigga 10/11th March 1931; II- The Action in the Gandao Kotal 18th March 1931 (page 73). From pages 62-86 Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 62, 1932 Archive.org
• Official History of Operations on the North-West Frontier of India 1920-1935 Parts I, II, III [by General Staff Army Headquarters, India]. Published by the Manager of Publications, Delhi 1945.
  • Page 71 "Part II The Afridi and Red Shirt Rebellion, 1930-31; The Mohmand and Bajaur Operations, 1933". Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.

It is also available in a reprint edition which in turn is available as part of an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 Official History of Operations on the NW Frontier of India (located in Military books/India and consisting of 2 books).