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Fort Gulistan. Another fort,
another action in the NWFP Rising of 1897-98. Pictured here are the
survivors of a Gulistan sortie party, with Afridi tribesmen they captured
during their attack. Gort Gulistan stood in the
Samana range of hills, south of the Khyber Pass. The forts here were held
by the 36th Sikhs and this was to be that Regiment's first action since
it's creation in 1887. |
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A black & white sketch depicting one
of the operations conducted by the British led forces in retaliation for
the Pushtun revolt was a raid into the previously untouched Tirah Valley
the bastion of the Afridi tribes. Here in a night action on 16 November 1897,
men of the 15th and the 36th Sikhs are seen attacking west of Tseri Kandao.
The drawing is by W.B. Wollen from a sketch by the War Artist Melton Prior. |
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British officers and Sikh
soldiers of the 45th Sikhs, pose for a photograph after the relief of
Chakdara Fort. Circa 1897. Defence of Chakdara Fort by six British
officers and 240 Indian soldiers of the 45th Sikhs and 11th Bengal Lancers
against 14,000 Pathan tribesmen, must rank as one of the greatest feats of
arms in military history. For six
days and seven nights, these men drove off all attacks upon the fort and
covered themselves and their regiment with glory. The officer on the extreme left is Haldane Rattray,
who received a neck wound after leading a charge to retake the hospital in Chakdara
Fort for which he was awarded the DSO. He later commanded the 45th Sikhs
during World War I and was tragically killed in Kut, Mesopotamia
(present-day Iraq) after it was lost to Turks, during a long siege. The 45th
Sikhs was decimated in this battle. |
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Song Sheet. This particular song was written in 1898 following the crushing of the Pathan Revolt. It's basic point was that the suspicions aroused by the Mutiny
should be forgotten. It also contained a request that Indian soldiers should receive,
"The right to wear like Britain's sons, The great Victoria
Cross." |
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Sikh gunners man a
mountain gun in the NWFP. Circa late 19th century. |
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Jemedar Dalit
Singh, 4th Bengal Lancers, 1900 in full dress. |
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Sowar, 18th Bengal
Lancers. Peking Relief Expedition, China, 1900. |
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The 55th Cokes
Rifles (Frontier Force) with new Lee-Enfield rifles, 1902. |
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A rifle team of the
10th Gurkha Rifles, Circa 1902. They are seen here armed with their new Lee-Enfield rifles
first issued in 1902. |
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A painting of a
Naik and a Sepoy, from the 39th Garhwal Rifles, 1905. The two are armed
with a Magazine Lee-Enfield Rifle (MLE), Pattern 1888 Bayonet, and Kukri. |
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A painting of different
types of uniforms worn by the Dogra Regiment in 1910. |
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A stunning painting
illustrating the drums of the 45th Rattrays Sikhs. Note the distinctive
badge of the Rattrays on the lungis as well as on the staff of the Band
Havildar Major, in the foreground, whose beard is magnificent even by Sikh
standards. Circa 1910. Thomas Rattray raised the 45th Sikhs as the
Bengal Police Battalion in 1857. His son and grandson, Haldane Rattray and
Peter Rattray, also commanded the 45th Sikhs in later years. |
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A painting
depicting members of the Rajputanta Rifles, all ranks & uniforms,
1911. |
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