Regimental India

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 31^st 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 31^st 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 31^st Regiment in the First Sikh War

Moodkee

Ferozeshah

Aliwal

Sobraon

End of Era - Return to England

1849 - Arrival of the 70^th - 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 - 1^st Surreys and a Pindi Poppet

1^st Queen’s at Quetta - The Earthquake

Allahabad

Razmak

World War Two

1^st Queen’s in the Arakan - The Battle of the Boxes

Kohima

2^nd Queen’s and the Chindits

Poona - First and Last - now called Pune

Epilogue

Biographical Notes

Old Soldier Sahib

Stations of the Regiments in India

 

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