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== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Rifles Khyber Rifles] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Rifles Khyber Rifles] Wikipedia<br> | ||
| − | *[http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/khyberrifles.shtml The Khyber Rifles] Khyber.org<br> | + | *[http://web.archive.org/web/20120507204303/http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/khyberrifles.shtml The Khyber Rifles] Khyber.org<br> |
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warburton Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI] Wikipedia<br> | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warburton Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI] Wikipedia<br> | ||
*Victorian War Forums [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=7147 thread] commencing 7 June 2012, including some photographs of the officers , and information about the first commandant, Gilbert Gaisford<br> | *Victorian War Forums [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=7147 thread] commencing 7 June 2012, including some photographs of the officers , and information about the first commandant, Gilbert Gaisford<br> | ||
Revision as of 12:09, 5 July 2013
Alternative spelling: Khaibar Rifles, Khaiber Rifles
The Khyber Rifles was an armed police or para-military unit, rather than a "regiment" in the Indian Army. "Other ranks" were locally recruited, with officers seconded from the Indian Army which had no control over them as they were paid for from the civil purse.[1]
Chronology
- 1878 raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford[2]
- 1881 command taken by Sardar Mohammad Aslam Khan (first Muslim commander)
- 1887 renamed Khyber Rifles
- 1919 disbanded
- 1946 reconstituted from Afridi veterans
- 1947 allocated to Pakistan
External Links
- Khyber Rifles Wikipedia
- The Khyber Rifles Khyber.org
- Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI Wikipedia
- Victorian War Forums thread commencing 7 June 2012, including some photographs of the officers , and information about the first commandant, Gilbert Gaisford
- Photograph: Khyber Rifles 1889 Qissa Khwani on Facebook
- Photograph "Inside Khyber Rifles mess". flickr.com
- Postcard: Cavalrymen of the Khyber Rifles post stamped 5.6.1929 with message From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
Historical books on-line
- Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org
Footnote
- ↑ Email to User:Maureene reported in this India List post
- ↑ later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years Officers Died website
