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Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force

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* [[: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 *[https://www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/archive/past-catalogues/668/catalogue/444420/ "The Attack on Point 4080, 29 September 1935"] with details of the DSO (Distinguished Service Order) awarded to (then) Lieutenant G. J. Hamilton, 5th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides). Hamilton became a career soldier, transferring to the British Army in 1948, retiring in 1967 with the rank of Major-General. noonans.co.uk. In the 1940s Hamilton married [[M M Kaye]] who later became a well known novelist.
==== 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. Contaims Contains references to the Guides.*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4522143?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''History of the Guides, 1846-1922''] 1938 Hathi Trust 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 at 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).*[British Libraryhttp://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
 
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