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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140508060510/http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/conferences/2012AirGroundConingham.pdf "Air/Ground Cooperation between the RAF and the Indian Army in Waziristan 1936-1937"] by Simon Coningham, British Commission for Military History, Summer Conference 2012–Indian Armies, now archived.
*[http://storyofwar.com/ A Story of War] blog recording the diaries kept by Colin Diarmid Campbell Dunford Wood (of the 1st Battalion [[17th Regiment of Foot| Leicestershire Regiment]]) from early 1939. Waziristan Campaign.
*[http://www.lookandlearn.com/blog/?p=3641 The kidnapping of Mollie Ellis] from [[Kohat]] cantonment by Afridi tribesmen from the Khyber Pass region 14 April 1923 and the rescue expedition which included Mrs Lilian Starr matron at the [[Peshawar]] Mission Hospital. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/4946412546/ Photographs] from the Illustrated London News (26 May 1923) on Flickr. An account of her rescue mission ''Tales of Tirah and Lesser Tibet'' by Lilian A Starr was published 1924, which is available online, refer below.
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7713000/7713192.stm "Waziristan's last soldier"] by Zubeida Malik BBC 8 November 2008 with a [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/08/programmes_waziristan/html/1.stm slideshow of photographs]. Frank Leeson spent two years commanding 1,000 Khassadars- Waziri soldiers- between 1946 and 1948, the last surviving British officer to have served in North Waziristan.
*[http://www.britishbattles.com/north-west-frontier-india/waziristan.htm Waziristan 1894] britishbattles.com
