Tirah campaign

Tirah campaign

Though wounded, Sergeant George Findlater continues to play the pipes while the Highlanders storm Dargai Heights.
Date3 September 1897 – 4 April 1898 (7 months and 1 day)
Location
Tirah Valley, British India
Result British victory
Belligerents

British Empire

 Afridi
Orakzai
Chamkani
Commanders and leaders
William Lockhart
Pratap Singh		 Gul Badshah
Strength
34,882
20,000 camp followers		 40,000–50,000
Casualties and losses

1,150 British casualties

Unknown Indians casualties		 Heavy Causality

The Tirah campaign, often referred to in contemporary British accounts as the Tirah expedition, was an Indian frontier campaign from September 1897 to April 1898. Tirah is a mountainous tract of country in what was formerly known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan, now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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