No. 9 M.B.R.A. 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers. 11th Bengal Infantry.[[19]] Wing 32nd Pioneers. 2nd Battalion 5th Gurkhas. Khyber Rifles.
Divisional Troops at Darband:
One squadron 11th Bengal Lancers and No. 4 Company Bengal Sappers and Miners.
At Oghi:
One squadron 11th Bengal Lancers. Three guns Derajat Mountain Battery. 28th Bengal Infantry.[[20]]
In Reserve at Rawal Pindi:
One squadron 11th Bengal Lancers. 1st Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps. 19th Bengal Infantry.[[21]] 27th Bengal Infantry.[[22]]
Advance of the Force
The weather was bad for some days after the concentration was effected, but good roads had been made to the frontier and to Bela, and both Phaldan and Bela had been occupied by our troops. General Elles proposed first to establish posts in Kanar and Tilli, and then with the Left or River Column to occupy the lower Hassanzai country on both banks and the Diliarai peninsula of the Akazais, while the Right Column, moving by Ril and Kungar, occupied the Khan Khel territory, and thus by degrees complete the occupation of the lands of both clans.
The advance commenced on the morning of the 12th, and Pailam and Kotkai were occupied by either column without any more opposition than was occasioned by some desultory firing at the River Column from across the Indus. On the next day the Right Column moved on to and halted at Tilli, while the River Column visited the Palosi plain and also Nadrai on the right bank, experiencing some opposition, but reconnoitring the road between Kotkai and Kanar. By the 15th it was reported that while the Hassanzais and Akazais were anxious to submit, other clans were gathering against us—mostly in the trans-Indus Chagarzai country.