Raiders of the Sarhad / Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Raiders of the Sarhad, by R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer

A TYPICAL GORGE IN THE SARHAD.
THE RAIDERS OF THE SARHAD
BEING THE ACCOUNT OF A CAMPAIGN OF ARMS AND BLUFF AGAINST THE BRIGANDS OF THE PERSIAN-BALUCHI BORDER DURING THE GREAT WAR
BY Brigadier-General R. E. H. DYER, C.B.
WITH NUMEROUS PHOTOGRAPHS AND TWO MAPS
LONDON H. F. & G. WITHERBY 326 HIGH HOLBORN, W.C. 1921

With the greatest diffidence I have at last made up my mind to write the story of my small campaign with the Sarhad Raiders in 1916.
This campaign sinks into utter insignificance when compared with the great deeds done in other theatres of war by men who said nothing about them. But, insignificant as it was, it forms part of the mosaic of the Great War, and for this reason may be of some general interest.
I take this opportunity of paying a tribute to all the officers who took part in this little campaign. Their untiring devotion to duty, and their efforts to do their utmost under conditions that were often more than trying, accounts for its success.