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

by R. E. H. Dyer

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

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[PREFACE]

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.