Khyber Rifles

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Chronology

  • 1878 raised as the Khyber Jezailchis by Capt Gilbert Gaisford[1]
  • 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

Historical books on-line

Eighteen years in the Khyber, 1879-1898 by Colonel Sir Robert Warburton KCIE CSI 1900 Archive.org

Footnote

  1. ↑ 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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