Terriers in India: British Territorials 1914-19
Terriers in India: British Territorials 1914-19 Some 50,000 British Territorials served in India during the Great War. The Territorials - citizen soldiers, members of a force formed before the war…
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Terriers in India: British Territorials 1914-19
Some 50,000 British Territorials served in India during the Great War. The Territorials - citizen soldiers, members of a force formed before the war for home defence - never expected to serve abroad, but volunteered for 'Imperial Service' at Lord Kitchener's request. Astonishingly, it has taken a century for a book on them to be written.
The Territorials - 'Terriers' - became responsible at first for garrison duty, not trusted to fight in Mesopotamia or on the North-West Frontier. Instead of going to France, in 1914 they went to India, to release Regulars for the front. Gradually, they gained the skill to be sent to war, and most of the 41 Territorial battalions sent to India saw active service, in Mesopotamia, in Frontier campaigns, in Aden and in the Third Anglo-Afghan war of 1919.
(Territorials were retained in India for up to a year after the Armistice, unhappily.) Terriers in