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*[https://archive.org/stream/historyofafghani031122mbp#page/n303/mode/2up "The Third Afghan War"], page 270 ''A History of Afghanistan Volume II'' by Brig-Gen Sir Percy Sykes 1940 Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/historyofafghani031122mbp#page/n303/mode/2up "The Third Afghan War"], page 270 ''A History of Afghanistan Volume II'' by Brig-Gen Sir Percy Sykes 1940 Archive.org
 
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by Charles John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. John Morris was an officer  with the [[3rd Gurkha Rifles]] from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the Third Afghan War in 1919), Waziristan and the North West Frontier of India.
 
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by Charles John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. John Morris was an officer  with the [[3rd Gurkha Rifles]] from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the Third Afghan War in 1919), Waziristan and the North West Frontier of India.
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206761/page/n131/mode/2up Page 88] ''The Story of the 1st & 2nd Battalions, 41st Dogras: Volume I, October 1900 to December 1923 and October 1917 to March 1922'' Archive.org.  Part of a chapter about the 3rd Afghan War.
 
*''The Green Howards In The Great War 1914-1919'' by Colonel H C Wylly 1926
 
*''The Green Howards In The Great War 1914-1919'' by Colonel H C Wylly 1926
 
:Available on the pay website [[findmypast]]<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-records-and-regimental-histories British Army Records & Regimental Histories] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records. findmypast. Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'. </ref>. If signed in to findmypast, the links are [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0903%2f0004 Title page] (image 4), [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0903%2f0009 Contents page] (image 9)
 
:Available on the pay website [[findmypast]]<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-records-and-regimental-histories British Army Records & Regimental Histories] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records. findmypast. Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'. </ref>. If signed in to findmypast, the links are [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0903%2f0004 Title page] (image 4), [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0903%2f0009 Contents page] (image 9)

Revision as of 02:07, 4 July 2020

Summary

3rd Afghan War
6 May – 8 August 1919
Chronological list of Wars and Campaigns
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Location: Afghanistan
Combatants:
British Army Afghan regular forces
Result:
British subsidy dicontinued
Afghans regained control of foreign policy
Border with British India confirmed
Medals:
India General Service Medal (1909)
Clasp:Afghanistan NWF 1919
Links:
Category: 3rd Afghan War

Hoping to regain control of foreign policy ceded to the British at the Treaty of Gandamak 1879 and to divert attention from internal strife, Amir Amanullah Khan invaded India on 3 May 1919. Military action took place mostly in the Khyber Pass but Kabul was bombed by the Royal Air Force and the Afghans attacked Thal. The Afghan forces were driven from British Indian territory and the Treaty of Rawalpindi on 8 August ended the British subsidy to Afghanistan which regained the right to conduct its own foreign affairs. The Durand Line defining the border between Afghanistan and the North West Frontier was re-affirmed.

British Library holdings

  • The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account, with maps, by General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, published 1926 Calcutta. Now available to download, see below.
  • War Diary [Collection], Army Headquarters India, Afghan War, 1919. GSI, 1919. 9 vols IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4057-4065. Printed volumes from the Military Library. Locate these records using the British Library Search.

Medal

  • The medal awarded was the India General Service Medal 1908 with clasp Afghanistan N W F 1919
  • Also see Medal Rolls

External links

Historical books online

Available on the pay website findmypast[1]. If signed in to findmypast, the links are Title page (image 4), Contents page (image 9)
Includes the 1st Battalion in India and the Third Afghan War 1914-1919. Commences Page 9, (image 27), Third Afghan War: page 15 (image 33)
Also available in a reprint edition[2], which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.
Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version.

Fiction

References

  1. British Army Records & Regimental Histories located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records. findmypast. Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'.
  2. Green Howards in the Great War Naval & Military Press