Authors and Contributors this page: T.F. Mills
Page created 1 June 2003. Corrected and updated 22.04.2005
Tibet Expedition
1904
  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: no battle honours were awarded.
signifies clasp to campaign medal
1904 Mar. 31
Guru
Inf:
Inf:
 
1904 May 3-
   1904 July 6
Gyantse
Inf: 1/F7(four coys) 1/F9(MGsec)
Inf: GR8
 
1903 Dec. 13-
   1904 Sep. 23
Tibet 1903-4
Inf: 1/F7(four coys) 1/F9(MGsec)
Engr: 2Coy/BSM 12Coy/MSM
Inf:
F19 P23 P32 F40 F55 GR8 GR9(MGsec)
   Order of Battle (Regiments & Formations)
Introduction to Regiments
   Medals Index of Campaign Medals
 
 
   Societies, Forums & Re-Enactors
   Museums & Memorials
   Bibliography
How to Find Books
  Books:
  Fleming, Peter. Bayonets to Lhasa; the first full account of the British invasion of Tibet in 1904. London : R. Hart-Davis, 1961. [simultaneously published: New York : Harper, 1961]
  Fleming, Peter. Bayonets to Lhasa; the first full account of the British invasion of Tibet in 1904. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1974. ISBN: 0837172160
  Fleming, Peter. Bayonets to Lhasa; the first full account of the British invasion of Tibet in 1904. Hong Kong ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985. ISBN: 0195838629 (pbk.)
Younghusband, Francis Edward. India and Tibet; a history of the relations which have subsisted between the two countries from the time of Warren Hastings to 1910; with a particular account of the mission to Lhasa of 1904. London : J. Murray, 1910.
The British invasion of Tibet : Colonel Younghusband, 1904. London : Stationery Office, 1999. ISBN: 0117024090 [Abridged ed. of Command Paper Cd. 1920, 1904]
Lamb, Alastair. The McMahon line: a study in the relations between India, China and Tibet, 1904-1914. London : Routledge & K. Paul; Toronto, Toronto U.P., 1966 [2 v.]
McKay, Alex. Tibet and the British Raj : the frontier cadre, 1904-1947. Richmond, Surrey : Curzon, 1997. (London studies on South Asia ; no. 14) ISBN: 0700706275
Mehra, Parshotam. The McMahon Line and after : a study of the triangular contest on India's north-eastern frontier between Britain, China, and Tibet, 1904-47. Delhi : Macmillan, 1974. ISBN: 0333900278 [reprinted: Columbia, Missouri : South Asia Books, 1976]
Waddell, L. A. (Laurence Austine) Lhasa and its mysteries, with a record of the expedition of 1903-1904. London : J. Murray, 1905.
Waddell, L. A. (Laurence Austine) Lhasa and its mysteries, with a record of the expedition of 1903-1904. 3rd ed. Freeport, N.Y. : Books for Libraries Press,1972, 1906. ISBN: 0836968166
Waddell, L. A. (Laurence Austine) Lhasa and its mysteries, with a record of the expedition of 1903-1904. New York : Dover Publications, 1988. ISBN: 0486257630
 
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