Hoping to benefit from the war weariness of the British and Indian troops, Afghan leader Amanullah proclaimed a jihad 3rd May 1919. The troops oposing him included Gurkha Rifles and the RAF.

http://www.national-army-museum.ac.uk/exhi...tan/page4.shtml

Thanks for posting this, only wish I lived a little closer to the museum.

Its difficult finding information on this small war.

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Scott

Afghan forces entered India near Landi Kotal, between Jalalabad and Peshawar, on 3 May 1919. Not surprisingly, war was declared against Afghanistan on 6 May 1919.

The 2nd Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, part of Brigadier-General G. D. Crocker's 1st Infantry Brigade, proceeded in covered lorries to Landi Kotal on 7 May 1919. The Afghan invaders left the convoy unmolested, perhaps assuming that the vehicles carried only stores. On 8 May the Battalion opened fire against Afghan working parties which had begun digging in and constructing sangars on a ridge 1 500 yards from the Battalion ... thus loosing the first shots in the war.

On 9 May 1919 Brigadier-General Crocker attacked the Afghan positions, and secured the Tangi springs and water works.

Two days later British forces drove the Afghans off the Khargali Heights dominating the Bagh springs, and by 13 May 1919 British cavalry had occupied Dakka in Afghanistan.

Elements of the 1st Infantry Brigade moved up to Dakka on 14 May 1919, and the remainder of 1st Infantry Brigade arrived at Dakka on 16 May 1919. The next day the 1st Infantry Brigade went into action against the enemy on the hills above Robat Fort.

This battle brought conventional warfare to an end on the Khyber front.

Although preparations were made to advance beyond Dakka, the Afghans had begun unofficial peace overtures on 15 May, and on 31 May the Amir of Afghanistan made a formal request for an Armistice. In the event more blood would be spilled elsewhere before the Peace conference opened at Rawalpindi on 26 July 1919.

“In the preface to his book Afghanistan 1919, Lieutenant General G. N. Molesworth, adjutant of the 2nd Battalion Somerset Light Infantry during the war, admits that ‘in comparison to the fearful slaughter which took place in World War I ... this campaign was a sideshow ...’ He then qualifies this statement saying ‘in normal times from the casualties alone it would have ranked as a major war’” (Paul Hinson, 1919 - The Third Afghan War: An Introduction.)

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