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

Expedition of 1908

By the beginning of 1908 the Government of India saw that military operations must inevitably be undertaken, and proposed that three brigades (one in reserve) should be mobilised in view of an expedition into the Bazar Valley; and on the 13th February Major-General Sir J. Willcocks, who had been appointed to command, moved out from Peshawar.

The three brigades were thus constituted:

FIRST BRIGADE.

Brigadier-General Anderson.

1st Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. 53rd Sikhs. 59th Scinde Rifles. 2nd Battalion 5th Gurkhas.

SECOND BRIGADE.

Major-General Barrett.

1st Battalion Seaforth Highlanders. 28th Punjabis. 45th Sikhs. 54th Sikhs.

THIRD (RESERVE) BRIGADE.