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[[Category:Punitive Expeditions|Buner Field Expedition 1897]]
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|partof=[[:Category:Punitive ExpeditionsNorth West Frontier Campaigns |Punitive ExpeditionsNorth West Frontier Campaigns ]]
|date=2-19 January 1898
|location= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buner_Valley Buner, NWF]
|combatant1=British & Indians
|combatant2=Bunerwals
|commander1=[http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101031930/ [Bindon Blood|Brig Gen Sir Bindon Blood]]
|commander2=
|strength1=8,800 troops
|casualties2=
}}
[[Image:Bunermap.jpg|thumb|Buner 1909]]
 
The '''Buner Field Expedition''' of 1898.
 
==Buner Field Force==
'''First Brigade'''<br>''Brig Gen W.H.Meiklejohn CB CMG''<br>*[[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Batt Royal West Kent Regt<br>]]*[[16th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry<br>|16th Bengal Infantry]]*[[20th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry|20th Punjab Infantry]]*[[31st Regiment of Punjab Infantry<br>|31st Punjab Infantry<br>]]
'''Second Brigade'''<br>''Brig Gen P.D.Jeffreys CB''<br>*[[3rd Regiment of Foot|1st Batt East Kent Regt<br>]]*[[21st Regiment of Punjab Infantry<br>|21st Punjab Infantry]]*[[Corps of Guides, Punjab Irregular Force|Guides Infantry]]
'''Divisional Troops'''<br>*[[10th Bengal Lancers (Hodson's Horse)|10th Bengal Lancers (1 Squadron)<br>]]*10th Field Battery [[Royal Artillery<br>]]*No7 Mountain Battery [[Royal Artillery<br>]]*No 8 Bengal Mountain Battery<br>*[[Bengal Sappers and Miners|No 4 Coy Bengal Sappers & Miners<br>]]*No 5 Coy [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras Sappers & Miners<br>]]*[[74th Regiment of Foot|2nd Batt Highland Light Infantry<br>]]*[[3rd Regiment of Bombay Light Infantry|3rd Bombay Light Infantry<br>]]*2.5 British Field Hospitals<br>*4 Native Field Hospitals<br>
== External Links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(military_history)#1878-1898 Wikipedia - North West Frontier Military History]Wikipedia<br>[http://www.antiquesatoz.com/stephenherold/nwfrontc.htm NWF Expeditions]<br>[http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C07E5D81039E433A2575AC0A9679C94699ED7CF&oref=slogin New York Times article] www.antiquesatoz.com==== Historical books online ====*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontieroverseas01indi#page/312/mode/2up Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India Vol I - Buner Field Expedition] archive.org*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontiercampaign00dunmrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''A frontier campaign: a narrative of the operations of the Malakand and Buner field forces, 1897-1898''] by the Viscount Fincastle and P. C. Eliott-Lockhart 2nd edition 1898 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n7/mode/2up ''Four Score Years and Ten: Sir Bindon Bloodʼs Reminscences''] by General Sir Bindon Blood, Representative Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers 1933. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5049/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file] where images have been rotated. Archive.org. Born 1842, he went to India in 1871, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n65/mode/2up page 47]. Commanded Buner Field Force 1898 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n335/mode/2up page 310].   [[Category:North West Frontier Campaigns|Buner Field Expedition 1898]]
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