3-085-654 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late Major-General Yeatman-Biggs, 1898. From a Painting by E. Patry. 'The only active operation which is just now going on in the highland countries over the north-west Punjab frontier is the expedition of General Sir Bindon Blood to chastise the Bonerwals, a warlike tribal folk infected with fierce Mohammedan fanaticism...Those people have since that period not given any serious trouble to the Indian [ie British] Government before the recent treasonable intrigues of the Moslem leaders of sedition, and they will simply get a mild lesson to remain at peace. Sir Bindon Blood's force, composed of two brigades led by Brigadier-Generals W. J. Meiklejohn and P. D. Jeffreys, consisting mainly of battalions of the Royal West Kent and East Kent Regiments and Bengal Native Infantry, with Punjabis, advanced on Jan. 5 from Katlang and Rustam, and seized the Tanga Pass on Friday, with slight resistance from the enemy...At the winter headquarters of Sir William Lockhart, in Bara, the army is now quiescent; the Zakka Khels have cleared out of the Khyber Pass. Much regret is felt at the deaths of General Yeatman-Biggs and Major D. W. Hickman, who was killed at Lundi Kotal'. Yeatman-Biggs died of dysentery. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.