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'THIM DAYS IS GONE' [25r] (49/248)
The record is made up of 1 file (124 folios). It was created in c 1980. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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represented the only chance of active service: and finally it
seemed somehow a step nearer to Europe, a step away from the dark
mysteries of India and Hinduism and towards the more
intelligible, more congenial atmosphere of Islam.
The people of the frontier, the Pathans, had always exercised a
strange fascination for Englishmen and I was no exception. In
contrast to most Indians, they struck one as being manly,
upstanding, and outspoken, and they had the reputation of being
brave and skilful fighters in their own country. We were all
keen to try ourselves out against them in the rough game of
mountain warfare.
Without a doubt they owed much of their success to the rugged
nature of their mountains and to the fact that the back door was
always open - when too hard pressed they could escape over the
frontier to Afghanistan.
Much the same situation has made a related people - the Kurds -
egually formidable, until their back door was closed by the Shah
towards the end of his reign, and their ability to defy the Iraoi
Army was at an end.
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A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career in the Royal Artillery, Rajputana, Sialkot, Persia, North West Frontier Province, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , and Kuwait.
Typescript with manuscript corrections.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 124; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the file also contains an original printed pagination sequence.
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- Mss Eur F226/28
- Title
- 'THIM DAYS IS GONE'
- Pages
- 1r:124v
- Author
- Tandy, Maurice Patrick O'Connor
- Copyright
- ©Major M P O C Tandy
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- Creative Commons Non-Commercial Licence