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Hoping to regain control of foreign policy ceded to the British at the Treaty of Gandamak 1879 and to divert attention from internal strife, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanullah_Khan 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. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durand_Line The Durand Line] defining the border between Afghanistan and the North West Frontier was re-affirmed.
== External Links British Library holdings==*''The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account'', with maps, by General Staff, Army Headquarters, India, published 1926 Calcutta. Now available online, see below.*''Afghanistan 1919. An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War'' by Lieutenant- General G. N Molesworth, (George Noble) 1962. UIN: BLL01002520046. Molesworth served as Adjutant to the [[13th Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry]] throughout this conflict. *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 [http://www.military-timessearcharchives.cobl.uk/articlesprimo_library/map-of-libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1510016459624&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true British Library Search].==Regimental histories==*''Frontier Assault: The North Staffordshire Regiment in the-third-afghan-warThird Afghan War 1919'' by James Green.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Frontier_Asssault.htm Map of html?id=zodIxQEACAAJ ''Frontier Assault: The North Staffordshire Regiment in the Third Afghan War1919''] Military Timesby James Green. Google Books </ref> This book is stated to include an account of the North-West Frontier during WW1. == Medal==*The medal awarded was the India General Service Medal 1908 with clasp Afghanistan N W F 1919* Also see [[Medal Rolls]] == External links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Anglo-Afghan_War Third Anglo-Afghan War] Wikipedia
*Article [https://www.afghanistan-analysts.org/en/reports/context-culture/the-1919-war-of-independence-or-third-anglo-afghan-war-a-conflict-the-afghans-started-and-ended/ "The 1919 War of Independence (or third Anglo-Afghan War): a conflict the Afghans started (and ended)"] by Fabrizio Foschini 21 Sep 2019. afghanistan-analysts.org
*[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bv4hzxpo424C&pg=PA247&dq=Landi+Kotal+1919&as_brr=3#v=onepage&q=Landi%20Kotal%201919&f=false Third Anglo-Afghan War] Google Books
*[http://www.king-emperorkhyber.comorg/publications/2011-153-Punjabis015/britishretreat.shtml "British Retreat from Waziristan"] by Mark Jacobsen khyber.org.htm 2/153rd Punjabis Editor of '' Rawlinson in India'' 2002, a publication of the Army Records Society v. 19. Available at the 3rd [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01010727125:[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA195401/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Third Afghan Warand the External Position of India, 1919-1924''] wwwby M H Jacobsen. Report presented at the Conference on Asian Studies, Madison Wisconsin 7 November 1987. Defense Technical Information Center DTIC ADA195401 Archive.org .kingHe also appears to have been the author of a PhD Thesis, University of California ''The Modernisation of the Indian Army 1925-emperor1939'' by Mark Houston Jacobsen (1979), available in a 1983 edition at Imperial War Museums LBY 83/3224, possibly as a microfilm.com*[http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/index.php?id=706 collection/asymmetry-in-afghanistan-the-poison-gas-option Asymmetry in Afghanistan - the poison gas option] The Serving Soldier website*[http://www.newstatesman25thlondon.com/200607170060 The afghan.htm Third Afghan War- 1919] Taken from [http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion: The London Regiment]*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/results.php?searchType=simple&resultsDisplay=list&simpleText=G+A+Clarke%2C+12th+Pioneers Photographs 1919] compiled by Major G A Clarke, 12th Pioneers (The Kelat-i-Ghilzie Regiment), and 2nd Battalion, 2nd Bombay Pioneers. National Army Museum collection 1963-09-633*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140830133118/https://sgtregnaldwhite.blogspot.com/2010/07/third-anglo-afghan-war.html Sgt Reginald White 48 Squadron RAF] in the Third Anglo-Afghan War. archive.org*[http://www.northeastmedals.co.uk/britishguide/india_general_service_1908_award.htm India General Service Medal 1908 Clasp Award Criteria] (scroll down) northeastmedals.co.uk*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA506166/mode/2up ''New StatesmanAir Policing'' ] by Lt Col John E Murphy ASAF. 2009 Master’s Thesis. Includes the Third Afgan War. Technical Information Center DTIC ADA506166 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA523451/page/n37/mode/2up "The Third Afghan War and the Campaign in Waziristan 1919-1929"] page 32 ''Ever present danger: a concise history of British military operations on the north-west frontier, 16 August 1849-1947'' by Matt M Matthews. Occasional Paper 33, June 2010. Combat Studies Institute Press, US Army Combined Arms Center, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Archive.org.*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT819zsTfAc The Graveyard of Empires Strikes Back - The British-Afghan War of 1919] YouTube video. Note first minute approximately is advertisement.===Historical books online===*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31823/supplement/3271 "Operations against Afghanistan"] ''London Gazette Supplement'' 12 March 1920 *[http://warandgamepahar.in/wpfb-file/1926-third-afghan-war-1919-official-account-by-army-hq-india-s-pdf ''Third Afghan War 1919--Official Account by Army HQ India 1926''] may be downloaded as a pdf from PAHAR- Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2314/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. Includes [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2314/page/n7/mode/1up Map]. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.6062/mode/2up/ Archive.org], mirror from Central Secretariat Library Delhi. *[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* ''Army. The official names of the battles and other engagements fought by the military forces of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1919, and the Third Afghan War, 1919. Report of the Battles Nomenclature Committee as approved by the Army Council''. This publication is available on the subscription website ''UK Parliamentary Papers'', reference Command Papers/ Accounts and Papers/ Session: 1921/Paper Number: Cmd. 1138. See [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for details and suggested access. Your Library needs to have subscribed for the module for this period. Also available at the National Archives, Kew, WO 161/102. There was a reprint edition published c 1992-93.*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-records-of-survey-of-india-vol-20-the-war-record-s-pdf/ ''Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920''] 1925. If the download button does not display, locate in Books/Survey Of India, or [https://pahar.in/?wpfb_dl=21751 Direct link] PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jAFEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Google Books version] (now full view). [https://archive.org/details/records-survey-india-vol.-20 Archive.org version]. Work of Royal Engineers and other staff of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.*[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. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3164 Archive.org mirror version]. 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.*[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'' by Officers of the Regiment [1923] Archive.org. Part of a chapter about the 3rd Afghan War.*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/2008wp-content/02uploads/042020/colonial05/Indian-controlSappers-and-Miners-1948.pdf ''The Indian Sappers and Miners''] by E. W. C Sandes [Edward Warren Caulfeild] 1948. (726p). nzsappers.org.nz. Includes a chapter on the 3rd Afghan War.*''The Green Howards In The Great War 1914-1919'' by Colonel H C Wylly 1926:Available onthe 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):Includes the 1st Battalion in India and the Third Afghan War 1914-1919. Commences [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE/ENECLANNPDFS/GB0903/0027&parentid=IRE/ENECLANNPDFS/GB0903/0027 Page 9], (image 27), [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=ire%2feneclannpdfs%2fgb0903%2f0033 Third Afghan War: page 15] (image 33):Also available in areprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-shoestringmilitary-press.com/product/green-howards-in-the-rafgreat-experiencewar/ ''Green Howards in the Great War''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/ Colonial Control On A Shoestring — hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Y6blXXur pay website fold3]. :Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version.*[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI1986lBtBDU ''The RAF ExperienceSomerset Light Infantry''] is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 located in Military books/Britain scroll to letter T. This appears to be ''The History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919'' by Maj Michael JEverard Wyrall, originally published 1927 and is a reprint edition published by Naval & Military Press.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-somerset-light-infantry-prince-alberts-1914-1919/ ''History of the Somerset Light Infantry (Prince Albert's) 1914-1919''] Naval & Military Press. Petersen </ref> From comments seen elsewhere, includes the 3rd Afghan War.:Also note the book by a section SLI officer who took part: ''Afghanistan 1919. An Account of Operations in the Third Afghan War'' by Lieutenant- General G. N Molesworth, (George Noble) 1962 available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002520046 . *[https://archive.org/details/frontierscouts0000chen/page/30/mode/2up "Chapter 5 The Third Afghan War and the Northwest Frontier, 1919"] pages 31-1920" Warandgame49 ''The Frontier Scouts'' by Charles Chenevix Trench 1985. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/originsofconflic0000robe/mode/2up ''The Origins of Conflict in Afghanistan''] by Jeffery J Roberts 2003. Chapter 4 contains a brief reference to the 3rd Afghan War, in its historical context. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.====Fiction====*[https://archive.org/details/leopardcliff00bree/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Leopard and the Cliff''] by Wallace Breem 1978. Archive.com org Books to Borrow/Lending Library ==References==<references/>{{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
