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==Individual accounts==
*Francis Stockdale was deployed to Waziristan in 1919. He was a temporary R. E. officer and served late 1919 to Dec 1921. His book ''Walk Warily in Waziristan'' is the subject of a BBC News article <ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7325117.stm Why Britons walked warily in Waziristan], Alastair Lawson, BBC News, 21 April 2008 with [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7325243.stm photographs]</ref>.
*Walter James Cumming served as an officer in the indian Army from 1915, with the [[South Waziristan Scouts]], 1917-1924, the [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force| 5th Bn 12th Frontier Force Regiment (Corps of Guides)]] 1924-1941, and in command of the [[22nd Regiment of Punjab Infantry|3rd Bn 14th Punjab Regiment]] 1941-1943. His book is ''Frontier Fighting: On Active Service in Waziristan: The Memoirs of Major James Cumming''. (edited by Jules Stewart 2010 Pen & Sword)
*John Morris served as an officer in the Indian Army with the 3rd Queen Alexandra’s Own Gurkha Rifles from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the Third Afghan War in 1919), Waziristan and the North West Frontier of India.<ref>[http://koara.lib.keio.ac.jp/xoonips/modules/xoonips/download.php?file_id=14440 John Morris at Keio University 1938-1942] by William Snell, page 2 of the pdf</ref> His autobiography ''Hired to Kill, Some Chapters of Autobiography'' was published in 1960. (London, Rupert Hart-Davis ).
*John Prendergast was awarded the Military Cross when serving with the [[Tochi Scouts]] (North Waziristan Transborder Armed Police) in May 1937.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1580495/Brigadier-John-Prendergast.html Obituary: John Prendergast] 1910-2008 ''The Telegraph'' 03 March 2008</ref> His books include an autobiography ''Prender’s Progress: a soldier in India, 1931-47''.
*John Archibald Hislop was an officer in the Indian Army, 2nd Battalion 9th Jat Regiment from 1933. He had a series of postings on the North West Frontier. Subsequently he was GS02 Waziristan District until c.August 1943. His memoirs ''A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947'' were published by his daughter in 2010 and reviewed in [[FIBIS Journal]] 26.
*John Masters was an officer with the 2nd Battalion [[4th Gurkha Rifles]] from 1935.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Masters John Masters] Wikipedia</ref> His autobiography ''Bugles and a Tiger'' was first published in 1956 and covers the Waziristan Campaign 1936-39.
*Graham F Reed was a junior officer in the [[Royal Signals Corps]] in his early twenties who was a Signals Officer with a Mountain Gun Regiment based at [[Razmak]] in Waziristan in 1945-47. His book is ''Walks in Waziristan''.
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[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/publication/87606 Catalogue entry] for the publication ''Bibliography of sources in the Departments of Documents, Photographs, Printed Books and Sound Records at the Imperial War Museum on military operations in Waziristan on the North West Frontier of India 1917-1937'', published c 1979.
==Also see==
*[http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~poyntz/India/images/AfghanFrontier.JPG 1893 North West Frontier Map] Rootsweb
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gaz_atlas_1909/fullscreen.html?object=39 1909 NWF Map] Digital South Asia Maps
==Recommended Reading==
*John Archibald Hislop was an officer in the Indian Army, 2nd Battalion 9th Jat Regiment from 1933. He had a series of postings on the North West Frontier. Subsequently he was GS02 Waziristan District until c.August 1943. His memoirs ''A Soldier’s Story-From the Khyber Pass to the Jungles of Burma: The Memoir of a British Officer in the Indian Army 1933-1947'' were published by his daughter in 2010 and reviewed in [[FIBIS Journal]] 26.
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