My Grandfather was involved in the Mohmand Campaign in India 1935. He was the in the Royal Horse Artilery, I would be interested to find anyone who had relatives involved in the campaign also. 313FD37E-07AB-41C2-BB61-07A9FDA7C2A1 by Bonner posted Mar 9, 2020 at 4:59 PM 2CFE4BBD-AB9C-40E0-896B-35A7F32B2AD9 by Bonner posted Jan 29, 2020 at 8:28 PM 7FA03324-C2B3-4327-B03E-A336F3C828AF by Bonner posted Jan 29, 2020 at 8:08 PM 1547146220328 by Bonner posted Jan 28, 2020 at 10:20 PM
And it appears that there was also a 1934 Mohmand campaign. The Pathans seemed to regard it as almost a regular sporting event. The 6 Nations with bullets and everyone can join in.
There is a (somewhat short) FIBIS Fibiwiki page Mohmand Campaign 1935 https://wiki.fibis.org/w/Mohmand_Campaign_1935 A more extensive Fibiwiki page is North West Frontier Campaigns which shows the 1935 Campaign was one in a long series over many years. https://wiki.fibis.org/w/North_West_Frontier_Campaigns Cheers Maureen
Alexander and Auchinleck were involved, who later became famous; I note the only artillery unit was an Indian Army one. See: Mohmand campaign of 1935 - Wikipedia Without digging "Bill" Slim was there too I think. A historian T. Moreman has a book on frontier warfare 'The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849-1947' and his original thesis is available online via Kings College London. A shorter article is on: Frontier Warfare 1914-1939
According to Ronald Lewin's biography Slim: The Standardbearer : a Biography of Field-Marshal the Viscount Slim - pages 56 - 58, Slim spent 1934 -1936 as an instructor at Camberley. Slims own work Unofficial History describes his participation in the Panch Pir punitive expedition in Waziristan but that was a decade earlier.
Official History Of Operations On The North-West Frontier Of India 1920-1935 is available in a reprint edition which in turn is available as part of an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 Fold3 link is Official History of Operations on the NW Frontier of India (located in International/Military books/India). Consists of 2 books. (links also provided in the Fibiwiki pages above) Fold3, usually a pay website, is currently FREE. (Friday 22 May, 2020) due to a military related public holiday in USA next Monday. Free period lasts, according to the website, until next Monday. Last year, and perhaps this year, the free period lasted until the end of Tuesday, Greenwich Mean Time. Cheers Maureen
"due to a military related public holiday in USA next Monday" Just a quibble and the reason that Fold3 offers free access: Memorial Day is the date the US recognizes its military dead. Like saying Remeberance day is "some military related holiday"