If every single man at arms that the British Empire could command had been stationed in India at any time, they could never have ruled such a vast area in land and population. They did it with a lot of collaboration, some of it willing, some of it a matter of convenience. Very little of what is now India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh was ruled outright by the British. They worked in collaboration with the various rulers of the many provinces, some Hindu, some Moslem. Designated 130th Baluchis in 1903, the subsidiary title was restored in 1910. [68] Artillery [ edit ] Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a Sikh ruler of the sovereign country of Punjab and the Sikh Empire. His Samadhi is located in Lahore, Pakistan.

Edwardian, that is both interesting and extremely helpful to anyone contemplating the OO/HO option, much appreciated. General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India. (1926). The Third Afghan War 1919 Official Account. Government of India, Central Publication Branch. Calcutta. I again include some pictures of the film, which are necessary to illustrate my research. These are taken with my camera pointed at my computer screen and, so, the quality is awful! Much of the action is centred on a train, with More and a clutch of passengers doing their very best to escape from an overwhelming horde of gun-toting enemies. And the film has a real verve to it, near-constant well-shot intrigue and suspense courtesy of director J. Lee Thompson, who would keep on directing strong action for the next thirty years of his career. It helps that it hits the ground running, offering some electric action at the opening that Hollywood can only dream of. General Staff Branch, Army Headquarters, India (1923). Operations in Waziristan 1919-20. Government Central Press. Delhi. Republished jointly by the Naval & Military Press and the Imperial War Museum. ISBN 1-84342-773-7.Moreman, Tim (1998). The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare 1847–1947. Macmillan: London. J. Lee Thompson's enjoyably imperialist if dated adventure appeared, from a creative point of view, at the most successful period of his variable 40-year career. Between 1957 and 1962 he directed such striking films as Woman In A Dressing Gown, Ice Cold In Alex and Tiger Bay, before concluding a continuous good run with The Guns Of Navarone and Cape Fear. Squeezed between Alex and Navarone, North West Frontier (aka: Flame Over India) shows many of the same characteristics of bravery and derring-do - the present film only differing in that it wears its old fashioned politics most conspicuously on its sleeve, and sets its adventure amidst the conflicts of an earlier generation, that of 1905 in India.

The movie is beautifully filmed, with great vistas of wilderness and excellent colour. Train-spotters will enjoy the railway details.H. S. Mahle (1985). Indo-Anglian fiction: some perceptions: including some lectures on Karnadʾs Tughlaq. Jainsons Publications. p.24 . Retrieved 5 April 2011. Chekhov's Skill: Mrs Wyatt is one of the only civilians on the train who knows how to use a gun. Which comes in handy when Scott is fighting Van Leyden.

The six former Punjab Infantry regiments were officially redesignated Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force, but the earlier style lingered and was restored in 1901. [93] Best scenes -there are plenty of them but this is my favorite-:the travelers stop in a station where a train full of dead bodies is waiting for them.The flies and the vultures are here too.The governess finds a survivor: a little baby ;they will use a glove as a feeding bottle. Razmak, Wana and Bannu were garrisoned with half-trained units which suffered serious reverses, losing men, rifles, and light machine-guns. [35] Northwest Frontier". Time Out. Archived from the original on 7 June 2011 . Retrieved 8 August 2017.I don't know why I did not focus on this combination, but, then, I think my layout needs to be of the broad gauge system, and for the reasons already set out, I think 3mm scale will be the most practical option for me. It would be a shame not to see Mr Lunn's train in the flesh, however. If all of that is correct (!), 1/72nd scale is 4.233 recurring mm to 1 foot! 16.5mm divided by 4.233 = 3.897. Call that 3.9 feet, as I am getting rather tired. This is highly recommended family viewing that - like so many of those 50's adventure tales - can stand muster with most anything being produced today. Filmink called it "a rousing adventure set in India with excellent action/spectacle mixed in with sooky Imperial propaganda, and Lauren Bacall ranks with Sally Ann Howes and Kay Kendall as More’s most effective love interest." [24] Pathans are your hardest in1/72nd. Only 15 or so of the box of excellent Esci Muslim warriors are NWF as opposed to Sudan and I'm afraid I don't rate the Red Box set. The Esci set is unavailable in any case.

No. 4 or Garrison Company, PIF, raised at Bannu in 1851 by Lt. S. W. Stokes, from the supernumeraries of a Sikh detachment of artillery which had been broken up and drafted into the horse light field batteries. [90] Burgundy's locomotive is in Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway livery, which perhaps suggests that this type did, indeed, run of the Rajputana metre gauge system where the India railway scenes were filmed? The Frontier Revolt of 1897-8 saw the 3rd Sikh and 2nd Punjab Infantries employed in the Tirah Campaign, earning them the honors T IRAH and P UNJAB F RONTIER. The 5th Gurkha Rifles was also awarded P UNJAB F RONTIER. [102]

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Converted to a mountain battery the following year, the company was accordingly redesignated No. 2 Bombay Mountain Battery. [70] North West Frontier (also known as Flame Over India in the United States and Empress of India in Australia) is a 1959 British adventure film directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, and Herbert Lom. Stiles, Richard G. M. (1992). The Story of the India General Service Medal 1908–1935. Terence Wise. Knighton, Powys. ISBN 1-85674-010-2.