22nd Derajat Mountain Battery (Frontier Force): Difference between revisions

In 1857, one detachment saw service against mutineers in [[Oudh]] and [[Bundlekand]] in the [[Indian Rebellion of 1857]]. The [[Second Afghan War]], saw the Derajat Mountain Battery with [[Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts|Lord Roberts]] throughout the war; from the [[Battle of Peiwar Kotal]] and the [[Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment]] and then on to that most famous march south to the [[Battle of Kandahar]]. After the war, in addition to numerous minor Frontier campaigns throughout the Century, the 2nd took part in the [[Chitral Expedition]]. When Major-General Low's was in charge of the relief of Chitral Fort in 1895, which was under siege after a local coup. Two years later it took part in the operations of the [[Tirah Campaign]]. To honour the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Indian they took part in the [[Rawalpindi Parade 1905]]. In the Great War, the 2nd in 1916 joined the [[Indian Expeditionary Force B]] in the campaign against the Germans in   [[German East Africa]], where it would remain until the Armistice. After the war, the Battery saw service during the [[Third Afghan War]] of 1919, the [[Mohmand and Bajaur Operations (1933)]], [[Mohmand Campaign (1935)]] and operations in Waziristan against the [[Fakir of Ipi]] from 1936. In [[World War II]] they were part of the force sent to the [[East African Campaign (World War II)|East African Campaign]].