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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20120507204303/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>
*[https://www.facebook.com/QissaKhwani/photos_stream#!/photo.php?fbid=254317921367761&set=pb.173386152794272.-2207520000.1361624347&type=3&theater  Photograph: Khyber Rifles 1889] Qissa Khwani on Facebook
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/commoner/2249805379  Photograph "Inside Khyber Rifles mess"]. flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/commoner/2249805379  Photograph "Inside Khyber Rifles mess"]. flickr.com
*[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
*[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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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 on-line

Footnote

  1. Email to User:Maureene reported in this India List post
  2. later as Lt-Col Gaisford he was political agent in Baluchistan where he was assassinated in 1898 aged 48 years Officers Died website