From the Black Mountain to Waziristan / Being an account of the border countries and the more turbulent of the tribes controlled by the north-west frontier province, and of our military relations with them in the past

by H. C. Wylly

No. 8 Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery. No. 9 Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery. No. 5 (Bombay) Mountain Battery. Machine Gun Detachment, 16th Lancers. Two Squadrons, 18th Regiment of Bengal Lancers. 21st Regiment of Madras Infantry (Pioneers). No. 4 Company, Madras Sappers and Miners. The Jhind Regiment of Imperial Service Infantry. The Sirmur Imperial Service Sappers.

LINE OF COMMUNICATIONS.

Commanding—Lieutenant-General Sir A. P. Palmer, K.C.B.

3rd Regiment of Bengal Cavalry. 18th Regiment of Bengal Lancers. No. 1 Kashmir Mountain Battery. 22nd (Punjab) Regiment of Bengal Infantry. 2nd Battalion, 2nd Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment. 39th Garhwal (Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry. 2nd Regiment Punjab Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force. No. 1 Company Bengal Sappers and Miners. The Jeypore Imperial Service Transport Corps. The Gwalior Imperial Service Transport Corps.

Composition of Force

THE PESHAWAR COLUMN.

Commanding—Brigadier-General A. G. Hammond, V.C., C.B., D.S.O., A.D.C.

57th Field Battery, Royal Artillery. No. 3 Mountain Battery, Royal Artillery. 2nd Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. 2nd Battalion, the Oxfordshire Light Infantry. 9th Regiment of Bengal Lancers. No. 5 Company, Bengal Sappers and Miners. 9th Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry. 34th Pioneers. 45th (Rattray’s Sikh) Regiment of Bengal Infantry.

THE KURRAM MOVABLE COLUMN.

Commanding—Colonel W. Hill.