The Making Of The British Army (100 page)

Gordon, Lt-Col. Sir Alexander (ADC)
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Gordon, Gen. Charles (‘Chinese’ Gordon)
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Gort, FM John Vereker, VC,
(i)
th viscount

BEF and Dunkirk (1940)
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,
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,
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,
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doubts about French (1940)
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,
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Gott, Lt-Gen. William (‘Strafer’)
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Gough, Gen. Sir Hubert
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,
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Goya, Francisco de,
El Tres de Mayo
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Gramont, Louis VII, duc de, Marshal
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,
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Granby, John Manners, marquess of
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Minden (1759)
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Warburg (1760)
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Grand Alliance, against Louis XIV
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Grand Alliance, Second (1701), Marlborough and
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,
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Graves, Lt Robert (RWF)
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,
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,
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,
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Goodbye To All That
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n

Great Britain
see
Britain

Great Game
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,
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Grey, Sir Edward,
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st viscount
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Grierson, Lt-Gen. Sir James
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n

Grivas, Georgios
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Grouchy, Emmanuel, marquis de, Marshal
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Guardian
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,
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Guderian, Gen. Heinz
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,
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guerrillas

Boer War continuation
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Spanish
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guidons and colours
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n

Gulf War, First (1991)
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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see also
Iraq; Kuwait

Gulf War, Second (2003)
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,
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,
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Gurkha regiments
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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&
n

adopt British Army organization and practice
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Brunei
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,
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Falklands War (1982)
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&
n

Indonesian Confrontation
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,
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,
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Malayan Emergency
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,
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7th Duke of Edinburgh’s Gurkha Rifles
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2nd Goorkhas
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&
n

10th Princess Mary’s Gurkha Rifles
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Gurney, Sir Henry
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,
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Gustavus Adolphus, king of Sweden
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,
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Guthrie, Gen. Charles, Baron Guthrie (CDS)
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&
n
,
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Haig, Capt
(later
FM Earl) Douglas
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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allied counter-offensive (1918)
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commander-in-chief
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,
(ii)

Marne/Aisne/Ypres
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,
(ii)

at Mons
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,
(ii)

Neuve Chapelle and Somme
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response to casualties
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,
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Haldane, Richard Burdon (Liberal War Minister)
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,
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n

Halifax, E. F. L. Wood,
(i)
st earl
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Hamilton, Brig.-Gen.
(later
Gen. Sir) Ian
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,
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Hamilton, Brig.-Gen. James
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Hamilton, Maj.-Gen. James (Royal Scots)
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Hammarskjöld, Dag
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Hampden, John
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Handel, George Frideric
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,
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,
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,
(iv)

Hanover, King’s German Legion
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Hanoverian troops

Duke of Cumberland’s Hussars
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,
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n

at Waterloo (1815)
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&
n
,
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,
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Harding, Gen. Sir John

Cyprus governor
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Singapore/Malaya CinC
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,
(ii)

Hardy, Revd Theodore Bayley, VC (chaplain)
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Hardy, Thomas

The Dynasts
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The Trumpet Major
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&n

Harkness, L/Cpl David (KORBR)
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Harrap, Capt (Adjutant) (13th/18th Hussars)
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Hartington, Marquis of, commission on the army

and navy (1890)
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,
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Hastings, Sir Max
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
(vi)

Hawksmoor, Nicholas
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Hawley, Lt-Col. Henry
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Hearsey, Gen., Barrackpore garrison commander
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‘hearts and minds’ campaign, Malaya
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,
(ii)
n
helicopters

Apache attack helicopter
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,
(ii)

Indonesian Confrontation
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Malayan Emergency
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Northern Ireland
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Help for Heroes (charity)
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Hennessey, Patrick
(Young Man in a Tank)
(i)
n

Herbert, A. P., ‘Salute the Soldier’
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Herman, Arthur,
To Rule the Waves
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n

Hesse-Kassel, treaties with Britain
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Hewson, Sjt-Maj. (34th Bengal Native Infantry)
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Hicks, William (Hicks Pasha)
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Hinde, Brig. ‘Looney’
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Hitler, Adolf
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Hobart, Maj.-Gen. Percy
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,
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,
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Hobart’s ‘funnies’
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,
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,
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n
,
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Holland Regiment
see
British army regiments, East Kent

Hollis, CSM Stanley, VC (Green Howards)
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Holmes, Richard
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,
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,
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,
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Holy Roman Empire
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Hong Kong
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,
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,
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Hope, Lt-Gen. Sir John
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Hopton, Sir Ralph
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Hore-Belisha, Leslie, continental field force
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Horrocks, Lt-Gen. Sir Brian
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,
(ii)

Horse Guards, administrative reorganization
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hospital provision for wounded
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&
n

Hougoumont (Waterloo)
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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Howe, Gen. William
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Philadelphia (1777)
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,
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Hugo, Victor, comment on Waterloo
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Hundred Days, allied counter-offensive (1918)
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,
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,
(iii)

Hunter, Archie,
Wellington’s Scapegoat
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n

Hunter-Weston, Gen. Aylmer
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,
(ii)

Huron, allied with French
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Hussein, Saddam
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,
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,
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Huth, Maj. Henry (8th Hussars)
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Hyde, Edward, earl of Clarendon,
History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England
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n
,
(ii)

Iban trackers
(i)
n

Illingworth, Capt Tim (Light Infantry)
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Imjin River (Korea), battle (1951)
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,
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Imperial Defence, Committee for
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Imperial Nursing Service
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Imphal, battle (1944)
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India

British army in
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,
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,
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&
n

Clive at Plassey
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governed by Britain
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nationalist agitation
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North-West Frontier
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,
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source of army experience
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,
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,
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,
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,
(v)
,
(vi)

War of Austrian Succession
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Wellington in
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Indian Army
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North Africa (1942)
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Quetta Staff College
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Western Front (1914)
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,
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Indian Corps (First World War), Duke of Connaught’s Own Baluchi Regt
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Indian Mutiny (1857–9)
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,
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