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Military history of the North-West Frontier

Converted to a mountain battery the following year, the company was accordingly redesignated No.


Alfred William Alcock

Alcock sailed to India in 1886 and served in the north-west frontier with Sikh regiment and Punjab regiments.

Charles Henry Brownlow

He served on the North West Frontier in the Hazara Campaign of 1853 and the campaign against the Mohmands in 1854.

Governor General's Bodyguard

In 1893, William Riddell Birdwood (later World War I General and 1st Baron Birdwood) became the Master Adjutant of the regiment, seeing service in a number of North-West Frontier expeditions, with his home (regimental) base in Dehradun.

Melton Prior

The mid-1890s found him back in South Africa, covering the failed Jameson Raid, the Matabele uprising and the subsequent Boer War, although he also covered the campaign in the Tirah on the North-West Frontier of British India in 1897.


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