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[[Category:Bengal Army]][[Category:Regiments]]== Also known as '''The Guides =='''. The object of this corpsthe '''Corps of Guides''', composed of horse cavalry and foot soldiers, was to provide trustworthy men to act as guides to troops in the field, and also to collect intelligence beyond as well as within the [[North West Frontier Province|North-West Frontier ]] of India. The regiment was located at [[Mardan ]] on the [[Peshawar ]] border and became one of the most famous in the Indian army. [http://enThe Corps of Guides were the first soldiers in either the British or Indian Armies to wear Khaki - which derives from the Indian word for dust.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Burnett_Lumsden Wikipedia] 

*'''1846''' raised as The Corps of Guides by [[Harry Lumsden|Lieut Harry Lumsden]] consisting of one troop of cavalry and three companies of infantry

*'''1922''' Cavalry became 10th Queen Victoria's Own Corps of Guides Cavalry (Frontier Force) and Infantry became 5th Bn (QVO Corps of Guides) [[12th Frontier Force Regiment*'''1945''']]

 ==FIBIS Resources==[[Image:Church at Home of the Guides Mardan.JPG|right|thumb|300px|Corps of Guides Church, Mardan]]* [[:Category:Mardan Cemetery images|Images of named graves in Guides Cemetery at Mardan]] ==Regimental history==''The Frontier Force Regiment'', compiled by Brigadier W. E. H. Condon 1962. Available online, see below. == External Links links ==*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corps_of_Guides_(British_India) Corps of Guides] Wikipedia<br>*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/corpsofguides/corpsofguides.htm Queen's Own Corps of Guides (Punjab Frontier Force)] British Empire website<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Burnett_Lumsden Harry Lumsden] Wikipedia<br>*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10th_Queen_Victoria%27s_Own_Corps_Of_Guides_Cavalry_(Frontier_Force) Guides Cavalry] Wikipedia*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160426120712/http://pakdef.org/12th-frontier-force-regiment/ 12th Frontier Force Regiment] pakdef.org, now archived.*[https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/frontier-force-regiment.33526/ Frontier Force Regiment] defence.pk*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1960-03-74-1-1 Photograph: Indian NCOs of the Guides Cavalry, 1879] UK National Army Museum  ==== Historical books online ====*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023907953 ''The Story of the Guides''] by Col G J Younghusband 1908 Archive.org.:[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag209edinuoft#page/616/mode/2up "The Regimental Durbar"] by Major General Sir George Younghusband, page 617 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 209 January-June 1921. Archive.org. Contains references to the Guides.*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4522143?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''History of the Guides, 1846-1922''] 1938 HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not viewable in USA etc. Volume 1 of two Volumes. Also available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvs78dpw4Ni online on fold3] (Ancestry owned pay website) in a Naval & Military Press reprint edition and located in Military Books/India. :Volume 2: ''History of the Guides 1922-1947'', by Sir George MacMunn, published 1950, is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-guides-1922-1947/ ''History of the Guides 1922-1947''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsi6zcsjcZ online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Military Books/India).*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1962-the-frontier-force-regiment-by-condon-s-pdf/ ''The Frontier Force Regiment''] compiled by Brigadier W. E. H. Condon 1962. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR - Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3213/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lumsdenguidesas00elsmgoog ''Lumsden of the Guides: A Sketch of the Life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden''] by Peter Stark Lumsden , George Robert Elsmie 1900 Archive.org*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cXgOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: being extracts from the letters of the late Major W. S. R. Hodson''] 2nd edition 1859. Google Books. He was appointed second in command of the Guides in 1847, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cXgOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA48 page 48], and subsequently became famous as Hodson of [[Hodson's Horse]]*[https://archive.org/details/frontiercampaign00dunmrich ''A Frontier Campaign: a Narrative of the Operations of the Malakand and Buner Field Forces, 1897-1898''] by the Viscount Fincastle, Lieutenant, 16th (Queen’s) Lancers and PC Eliott- Lockhart, Lieutenant “Queen’s Own” Corps of Guides 2nd Edition 1898 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/onsecretpatrolin00blacuoft ''On Secret Patrol in High Asia''] by L V S Blacker, Captain, The Guides. 1922. Archive.org ==References==<references/> {{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}  [[Category:Corps of Guides]]-