PHOTOS 'Worfield House (now vicarage) Shropshire, where my mother's ancestor, Charles Stephen Whitehill, lived in 1780' 'Worfield Church where there is a tablet to Chas. Stephen Whitehill and his wife'
Tirah Campaign. North West Frontier Comments on the Afridi and Orakzais tribesmen. Illicit arms trade. Account of the campaign, in which Col. Ross served as transport officer at Shinwari (advanced base) and Chagru Kotal (detachment camp).
Surveys country between Belgaum and Hubli for future manoeuvres. Regiment moves to Ahmednaggar to relieve 110th Mahratta Light Infantry, Oct 1910. Passes exam for independent command. Manoeuvres at Aurangabad. Meets Colonel (later Field Marshal Sir) Douglas Haig. First view of an aeroplane.
Losses of troops through heatstroke on train. Receives orders to leave for Mesopotamia to command newly formed 2nd Btn./103rd L.I. Sails from Karachi on 'Elephanta', 12 Jul, as O.C. troops on transport ship. Arr. Basra, on the Shatt-el-Arab, 16 Jul. Disembarks troops and sets of to join regime...