REGIMENTAL INDIA 1825 - 1947 THE SURREY CONNECTION
The East India Company
Preparations for Departure
Voyage and Disaster - the Loss of the Kent
The Queen’s in the Bombay Army
Poona - First Years
Return to Bombay
The 31st in Bengal
A Variety of Stations
Road Travel
The Meeting with the Maharajah Ranjit Singh
After Meerut
The Queen’s in Afghanistan - The First Afghan War
The Battle for Ghuznee
The Capture of Khelat
The 31st Regiment and the Relief of Kabul
Marching across the Punjab
Through the Khyber Pass to Jelalabad
On to Kabul
The Campaigns in Retrospect
The Sutlej Campaign - the 31st Regiment in the First Sikh War
Moodkee
Ferozeshah
Aliwal
Sobraon
End of Era - Return to England
1849 - Arrival of the 70th - The Indian Mutiny and the aftermath
The Scourge of Cholera
1866 - Return of the Queen’s - A Naval Experience
Subsequent Tours - A Kipling Connection?
The Second Afghan War 1878-79
The North-West Frontier of India - The Great Game
The Mohmand Campaign - Winston Churchill was there
The Tirah Campaign - Recollections of Surgeon Captain A.E. Masters
Return to India
The Growth of Indian Nationalism
The First World War
Between the Wars
Station Life
Security
The Families - young Domoney
Rawalpindi - 1st Surreys and a Pindi Poppet
1st Queen’s at Quetta - The Earthquake
Allahabad
Razmak
World War Two
1st Queen’s in the Arakan - The Battle of the Boxes
Kohima
2nd Queen’s and the Chindits
Poona - First and Last - now called Pune
Epilogue
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Old Soldier Sahib
Stations of the Regiments in India