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Alternative spelling: Khaibar Rifles, Khaiber Rifles
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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.<ref>Evers, Maureen. [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/521391/ Major Edward HENLEY Born : Delhi, India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 11 February 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2019. </ref>
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== Chronology ==
 
== Chronology ==
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*'''1878''' raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford<ref>later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years [http://glosters.tripod.com/offzdiedg.htm Officers Died website]</ref>
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*'''1878''' raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford<ref>Later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years [http://glosters.tripod.com/offzdiedg.htm Officers Died website]</ref>
 
*'''1881''' command taken by Sardar Mohammad Aslam Khan (first Muslim commander)
 
*'''1881''' command taken by Sardar Mohammad Aslam Khan (first Muslim commander)
 
*'''1887''' renamed Khyber Rifles
 
*'''1887''' renamed Khyber Rifles
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*'''1946''' reconstituted from Afridi veterans
 
*'''1946''' reconstituted from Afridi veterans
 
*'''1947''' allocated to Pakistan
 
*'''1947''' allocated to Pakistan
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== External Links ==
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== External links ==
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Rifles Khyber Rifles] Wikipedia<br>
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khyber_Rifles Khyber Rifles] Wikipedia<br>
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[http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/khyberrifles.shtml The Khyber Rifles] Khyber.org<br>
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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20120507204303/http://www.khyber.org/pashtohistory/frontiercorps/khyberrifles.shtml The Khyber Rifles] Khyber.org, archived page.<br>
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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warburton Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI] Wikipedia<br>
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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Warburton Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI] Wikipedia<br>
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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>
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*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/commoner/2249805379  Photograph "Inside Khyber Rifles mess"]. flickr.com
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*[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043211-RE_171831.html Postcard: Cavalrymen of the Khyber Rifles post stamped 5.6.1929] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043211-VE_216197.html message] From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
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==== Historical books on-line ====
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==== Historical books online ====
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[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924020369108#page/n12/mode/1up '' Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898''] by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924020369108#page/n12/mode/1up '' Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898''] by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/khyberriflesfrom00stew ''The Khyber Rifles: From the British Raj to Al Qaeda''] by Jules Stewart 2005.  Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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*[https://archive.org/details/khyberrifles18782015/page/n3/mode/2up ''An Illustrated History of Khyber Rifles 1878-2015''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema  2015. Archive.org
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**[https://archive.org/details/kingkhyberrifle00cogoog ''King - of the Khyber Rifles: A Romance of Adventure''] by Talbot Mundy 1916 Archive.org. Note: missing the first two pages which may be read on the [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6066 gutenberg.org] version.
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*: Audio [https://archive.org/details/king_kyber_rifles_1005_librivox LibriVox recording of ''King of the Kyber Rifles'', by Talbot Mundy]. Read by Brett W. Downey. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/readiance-king_kyber_rifles_1005_librivox 2nd Librivox file with Readiance audio-text synchronization files] Archive.org
  
 
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Revision as of 05:24, 29 January 2020

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

Historical books online

Footnote

  1. ↑ Evers, Maureen. Major Edward HENLEY Born : Delhi, India Rootsweb India Mailing List 11 February 2013. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
  2. ↑ Later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years Officers Died website

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