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*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Mohmand_Campaign 2nd Mohmand Campaign] 1935 Wikipedia 1935
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:British_military_personnel_of_the_1935_Mohmand_Campaign British military personnel of the 1935 Mohmand Campaign] Wikipedia
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20220513210119/http://www.khyber.org/publications/041-045/armyininda.shtml Army in India & Frontier Warfare 1914-1939] by Tim Moreman (Khyber.org, now archived and originally from [https://web.archive.org/web/20200220062414/http://www.king-emperor.com/Frontier%20Warfare%201914-1939.html king-emperor.com], now archived) has a section "The Mohmand Campaign (Aug-Sep 1935)" (scroll down).
*[https://www.noonans.co.uk/auctions/archive/past-catalogues/668/catalogue/444420/ "The Attack on Point 4080, 29 September 1935"] with details of the DSO (Distinguished Service Order) awarded to (then) Lieutenant G. J. Hamilton, 5th Battalion, 12th Frontier Force Regiment (Queen Victoria’s Own Corps of Guides). Hamilton became a career soldier, transferring to the British Army in 1948, retiring in 1967 with the rank of Major-General. noonans.co.uk. In the 1940s Hamilton married [[M M Kaye]] who later became a well known novelist.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/pjbullous/sets/72157625855561476/with/5367770493 Photographs: India 1930s 14th Corunna Field Battery] taken by the father of Peter Bullous. Includes photographs at Ghalanai during the 1935 Mohmand Operations. Flickr.com. This Battery is now called [http://www.26thregra-asc.com/17bty.html 17 (Corunna) Battery] and appears to have been in India until 1939.
* Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80019789 2000 interview with Jack Vardy], born 1913, British private (bandsman) served with 1st Bn Hampshire Regt in India 1929-1935. Reel 3 includes a short segment "acting as stretcher-bearer at Gallenoi, 1935". Imperial War Museums
===Historical books online===
*''Official History Of Operations On The North-West Frontier Of India 1920-1935 Parts I, II, III''] [by General Staff Army Headquarters, India]. Published by the Manager of Publications, Delhi 1945.
**[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.449186/page/n197/mode/2up "Part III The Loe Agra Campaign - 1935; The Mohmand Campaign - 1935"], page 160.
:It is also available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/official-history-of-operations-on-the-north-west-frontier-of-india-1920-1935/ ''Official History of Operations on the North-West Frontier of India 1920-1935''] Naval & Military Press</ref> which in turn is available as part of an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.<ref> [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvs1LINNg2y ''Official History of Operations on the NW Frontier of India''] fold3 (located in World War2/Military books/India). Consists of 2 books.</ref>
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210573/page/n103/mode/2up "Defence and Emigration"] Chapter V, page 86.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210573/page/n127/mode/2up "Events on the North West Frontier 1935"] page 109.
*The military campaigns of 1935 are mentioned in the following autobiographies of Field Marshal Alexander
**[https://archive.org/details/alexanderoftunis0000hill/page/54/mode/2up/ "Encounter with a Fakir"] Chapter V, page 54 ''Alexander of Tunis : a Biographical Portrait'' by Norman Hillson 1952 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
