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[[Category:Battles{{War|name=Malakand Field Expedition 1897]]{{Battles_Infobox|partof=[[:Category:Punitive Expeditions|Punitive Expeditions]]|datedates=7 August -6 December 1897|image=Malakandmap.jpg |location= [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malakand Malakand, NWF]|presidency=[[Bengal]] |co-ordinates= [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?ll=34.584017,71.937464&z=14&t=h&hl=en 34.584017°N 71.937464°E] |result= Submission of tribes|territory=|combatant1=British & Indians|combatant2=Various Swat Valley tribes|commander1result= <br>Submission of tribes |medal=<br>[http://wwwen.oxforddnbwikipedia.comorg/indexwiki/101031930/ Maj Gen Sir Bindon Blood KCBIndia_Medal India General Service Medal (1895-1902)]<br>Clasps: Malakand 1897|commander2category= [[:Category:North West Frontier Campaigns |North West Frontier Campaigns ]]}} |strength1== Summary ==|strength2Increasing unrest culminated in a general uprising under a Pashtun fakir named Saidullah. The British forces at Malakand Camp and Chakdara were attacked but were relieved by forces from [[Nowshera]]. The Malakand Field Force fought a series of actions pushing into the Swat and Mohmand Valleys.== Earlier Actions = |casualties1= |casualties2= See also [[Battle of Malakand Camp 1897]] and [[Battle of Chakdara]]. <br>These two actions resulted in the Malakand Field Expedition.}}

''Commanded by [[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]''<br>*[[50th Regiment of Foot|1st Batt Royal West Kent Regt<br>]]*[[24th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|24th Punjab Infantry<br>]]*[[31st Regiment of Punjab Infantry|31st Punjab Infantry<br>]]*24th Sikhs<br>

'''Second Brigade'''<br>''Brig Gen P.D.Jeffries Jeffreys CB''<br>*[[3rd Regiment of Foot|1st Batt East Kent Regt<br>]]*[[35th Sikh Infantry|35th Sikhs<br>]]*[[38th Regiment of Dogra Infantry|38th Dogras<br>]]*[[The Queen's Own Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force|Guides Infantry]]<br>

'''Third Brigade'''<br>''Brig Gen J.H.Wodehouse CB CMG''<br>*[[2nd Regiment of Foot|1st Batt Royal West Surrey Regt<br>]]*[[74th Regiment of Foot|2nd Batt Highland Light Infantry<br>]]*[[22nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry|22nd Punjab Infantry<br>]]*[[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|39th Garhwal Rifles]]<br>

'''Divisional Troops'''<br>*[[10th Bengal Lancers (Hodson's Horse)|10th Bengal Lancers ]] (1 Squadron)<br>*[[11th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Bengal Lancers|11th Bengal Lancers ]] (1 Squadron)<br>*10th Field Battery [[Royal Artillery<br>]]*No1 Mountain Battery [[Royal Artillery<br>]]*No7 Mountain Battery [[Royal Artillery<br>]]*No8 Bengal Mountain Battery<br>*No3 Coy [[Bombay Sappers and Miners|Bombay Sappers & Miners<br>]]*No4 Coy [[Bombay Sappers and Miners|Bombay Sappers & Miners<br>]]*No5 Coy [[Bombay Sappers and Miners|Bombay Sappers & Miners<br>]]*[[21st Regiment of Punjab Infantry|21st Punjab Infantry<br>]]*1 Section British Field Hospital<br>*2 Sections Native Field Hospitals<br> == External 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

== External Links == Historical books online ====*[http://enwww.wikipediaarchive.org/wikistream/North-West_Frontier_storyofmalakandf00chur#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Story of the Malakand Field Force''] by Winston L Spencer Churchill.1916 First published 1898 Archive.org (military_historyA 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#1878page/n7/mode/2up ''A frontier campaign: a narrative of the operations of the Malakand and Buner field forces, 1897-1898 Wikipedia ''] 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 -west Frontier Military History'']<br>by Hugh Lewis Nevill 1912. Archive.org. “The Operations of the Malakand Field Force” commences [http://www.antiquesatozarchive.comorg/stephenheroldstream/nwfrontccampaignsonnorth00nevi#page/230/mode/2up page 231]*[http://www.archive.htm NWF Expeditionsorg/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://bookswww.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.googleorg/details/dli.cocsl.uk5049/page/books?id=SRwabd8SRVwC&pg=PA9&dq=Contents+malakand#PPA9n1/mode/2up 2nd file] where images have been rotated. Archive.org. Born 1842, he went to India in 1871,M1 Google Books - The Story of the [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n65/mode/2up page 47]. Commanded Malakand Field Force1897 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208528/page/n309/mode/2up page 288].

Campaigns of the North-West Frontier by Capt H.L.Nevill DSO 1916 <br>Reprinted by The Naval & Military Press Ltd 2005 <br>ISBN 1-845741-87-0<br>

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