Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 September 2000. Corrected and updated 03.05.2006
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Anglo-Afghan War
1839-1842
  Causes
  Chronology
  Results
  Forces & Casualties
  Commanders
  Battles & Battle Honours
  Order of  Battle
  Campaign Medals
  Societies, Forums, Re-Enactors
  Museums & Memorials
  Bibliography  
  External Links
 
   Causes

     

   Chronology (except battles, which see below)
 
 
 
   Results

     

   Forces and Casualties
 
 
peak forces
total forces
total dead
KIA
NCD
civilian dead
WIA
PW-MIA
  subtotal
  TOTAL
                   
   Commanders
 
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   Battles & Battle Honours
Index of Battle Honours
Date Battles
(Battle Honours are shown in
bold face)
Regiments
(regiments awarded Battle Honours are shown in bold face)
Note: battle honours were awarded 1839-44 as indicated below;
medals were awarded for individual battles (no clasps)
1839 July 21-23
Ghuznee 1839
EIC award 1839; British award 1840; date added 1907
Cav: LD4 L16
Inf: F2 F13 F17
Cav: BLC2 BLC3 2/Skinner ByLC1 Poona
Engr: BySM
Inf: BE1 B16 B35 B48 By19
 
1839 Nov. 13
Khelat
awarded 1840
Inf: F2 F17
Cav: 2/Skinner Poona Engr: BySM
Inf: B31
 
1839
Affghanistan 1839
British award 1840; EIC award 1842; orthography changed 1911 from "Afghanistan"; date added 1914
Cav: LD4 L16
Inf: F2 F13 F17
Cav: BLC1 2/Skinner ByLC1 Poona
Engr: BySM
Inf: BE1 B2 B2 B3 B5 B6 B16 B30 B35 B37 B38 By2 By19 By22 By23 By26
 
1840 May 16-
   1840 Sep. 28
Kahun
awarded 1841
Inf: By5
 
1840 Sep. 14-18 Bamian
Inf: B35
 
1840 Nov. 2 Parwan
Inf: F13(2coys)
Cav: BLC2 Inf: B27(2coys) B37(2 coys)
 
1841 Jan. 3 Girishk
Cav: [sqn] Inf: B2
 
1841 July 3 Girishk
Inf: ?SS
 
1841 Aug. 17 Girishk
Inf: ?
 
1841 Nov. 2-
   1842 Jan. 12
Retreat from Kabul
(ending at Gandamak)
Inf: F44
Inf: B5 B37 B54
also Shah Shuja troops
 
1841 Nov. 13-
   1842 Apr. 7
Jellalabad
with mural crown; awarded 1842
Inf: F13
Inf: B5 B35
 
1842 Hykulzee
Inf: F41
 
1842 Mar. 10
Candahar 1842
EIC award 1842; British award 1843-44; date added 1907
Inf: F40 F41
Cav: BIC1 1/Skinner Poona
Inf: B2 B3 B5 B6 B9 B12 B16 B28 B38 By20
 
1842 May 21
Khelat-i-Ghilzai
with mural crown 'Invicta'; awarded 1842
Inf: B6 B43(3coys) SS3
 
1842 July 26 Mazenia
Inf: F31
Inf: B32 B53
 
1842 Aug. 6
Ghuznee 1842
EIC award 1842; British award 1844; date added 1907
Inf: F40 F41
Cav: 1/Skinner ByLC3 Poona
Inf: B2 B3 B5 B6 B11 B12 B16 B27 B38
 
1842 Sep. 13 Tazeane
Inf:
Inf:
 
  Istalif
Inf: F9
Inf:
 
1839-1842
Cabool 1842
EIC award 1842; British award 1844
Cav: LD3 Arty: Kabul
Inf: F9 F13 F31 F40 F41
Cav: BLC1 BLC5 BLC10 Tait ByLC3
Engr:
BSM
Inf: B2 B6(3rdcoy) B16 B26 B30 B33 B35 B38 B53 B60 B64
 
Operations in Baluchistan
1839-1842
Cutchee
awarded 1855
Inf:
 
   Order of Battle (Regiments & Formations)
Introduction to Regiments
   Medals Index of Campaign Medals
 
 
Bars: none
Period: 1 Dec. 1979-20 Mar. 1980
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   Societies, Forums & Re-Enactors
   Museums & Memorials
   Bibliography
How to Find Books
  Books:
   
  Forbes, Archibald. The Afghan wars 1839-42 and 1878-80. {Project Gutenberg full text}
  Hough W. Narrative of the march and operations or the Army of the Indus. [reprint] Naval & Military Press, 2005. ISBN: 1845742648
Eyre, Vincent. The military operations at Cabul. [reprint] Nonsuch, 2006. ISBN: 1845880129
 
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