29,525
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
→External Links
== Malakand Field Force ==
''Commanded by [http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101031930/ [Bindon Blood|Maj Gen Sir Bindon Blood KCB]]''<br>
'''First Brigade'''<br>''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hope_Meiklejohn Brig Gen W.H.Meiklejohn CB CMG]''
*[[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Batt Royal West Kent Regt]]
*2 Sections Native Field Hospitals<br>
== External Links links ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North-West_Frontier_(military_history)#1878-1898 Wikipedia - North West Frontier Military History]<br>[http://www.antiquesatoz.com/stephenherold/nwfrontc.htm NWF Expeditions]<br>
[http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/reg_in_india/india33_1.html Malakand Field Force] Queensroyalsurreys.org
==== Historical books online ====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/storyofmalakandf00chur#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Story of the Malakand Field Force''] by Winston L Spencer Churchill.1916 First published 1898 Archive.org (A portrait of Maj Gen Bindon Blood KCB provides a frontpiece to this edition)
:[https://archive.org/details/rovingcommissino001321mbp/page/n7 ''A Roving Commission My Early Life''] by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill 1930 Archive.org. He arrived in India 1896, as an officer with the 4th Hussars, who were based in [[Bangalore]]. He took leave from his regiment to join the Malakand Field Force as a correspondent. He resigned from the Army and left India 1899.
:[https://archive.org/details/churchillsfirstw0000coug_i7d1/mode/2up ''Churchill's first war : young Winston and the fight against the Taliban''] by Con Coughlin 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/frontiercampaign00dunmrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''A frontier campaign: a narrative of the operations of the Malakand and Buner field forces, 1897-1898''] by the Viscount Fincastle and P. C. Eliott-Lockhart 2nd edition 1898 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/campaignsonnorth00nevi#page/n5/mode/2up ''Campaigns on the North-west Frontier''] by Hugh Lewis Nevill 1912. Archive.org. “The Operations of the Malakand Field Force” commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/campaignsonnorth00nevi#page/230/mode/2up page 231]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesonservic00hobdiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Sketches on service during the Indian frontier campaigns of 1897''] by Major E.A.P. Hobday. Containing fifty-seven full page engravings from original drawings, and fourteen photographic portraits of the commanding officers and their staffs. 1898 Archive.org
*[https://kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/isacke-diaries-1897-part-5/ ''Isacke Diaries (1897 part 5)''] Handwritten online document, 94 pages. This final part of the 1897 Isacke diary covers the period 1 August until 31 December. It describes Hubert Isacke's involvement in the Malakand Field Force Expedition of July-August 1897 and also describes a long period of illness or injury and hospitalisation in India. The long voyage home includes a stop at Suez. King’s College London Collections: The Serving Soldier. He appears to have been an Officer in the [[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Battalion, The Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Regiment)]].<br />
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/sketchesonservic00hobdiala#page/14/mode/2up Siege of Malakand and Relief of Chakdarra] archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n7/mode/2up ''Four Score Years and Ten: Sir Bindon Bloodʼs Reminscences''] by General Sir Bindon Blood, Representative Colonel Commandant, Royal Engineers 1933. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.5049/page/n1/mode/2up 2nd file] where images have been rotated. Archive.org. Born 1842, he went to India in 1871, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n65/mode/2up page 47]. Commanded Malakand Field Force 1897 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n309/mode/2up page 288].
== Recommended Reading ==
