3-085-755 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Indian Frontier Rising: the expedition into the Khyber and Bazar Valley, 1898. '1. Major-General Symons, with the 1st Brigade, under Brigadier-General Hart, and Divisional Troops, Encamped at La La China, on the Khyber River, December 29, 1897; 2. Burg, in the Bazar Valley, with one of the Fortified Villages Demolished by the Divisional Troops; 3. Fort Ali Musjid: A Sketch taken from the Bed of the Khyber River, looking up the Pass. From Sketches by Lieutenant-Colonel H. H. Hart, C.R.E., First Division Tirah Expeditionary Force.? A military disaster has befallen the Fourth Brigade of the British Indian Army in the Khyber Pass and the Bara Valley, notwithstanding its defeat of most of the Afridi tribes...Brigadier-General Westmacott moved from Mamani...to drive away the people who were grazing their cattle on the Kajari plain, in order to compel the submission of their tribe by stopping their supplies. A column of his force, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel Seppings...was compelled to retire. Its rearguard suffered rather heavy losses; Colonel Haughton and Lieutenant A. H. Turing, with three men of the Sikh Regiment...[and] five English soldiers of the South Yorkshire Regiment, were killed'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.