The Frontier Ablaze – Life and Death on India’s North West Frontier
Thursday 10th April at 18.00 | Drawing Room | £10.00*
*Include glass of wine on arrival
Service on the North West Frontier was characterised by searing heat, freezing winds, boredom, fatigue and sudden, violent death. During 1936-7, 60,000 Indian, Gurkha and British troops deployed to Waziristan to fight the Fakir of Ipi in the last major Frontier campaign before independence. Join the Column as it advances through the mountains. Will it be attacked by Wazir and Mahsud tribesmen? Will the Column reach their camp tonight?
Bio Notes
Lieutenant Colonel Mike Tickner is a retired Regular Army officer with a long term interest in the British Army in India and particularly the Far East campaigns and the North West Frontier. He regularly gives talks to military and civilian groups, clubs and museums and writes the occasional article. He has led battlefield studies to the India and South-East Asia, most recently to Singapore. Having spent many rainy nights on the North German plain and Salisbury Plain, he has also served in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia.
