Official History of Operations on the N. W. Frontier of India 1936–37. Republished jointly by the Naval & Military Press and the Imperial War Museum. ISBN 1-84342-765-6/

Officially designated Cavalry, Punjab Frontier Force, the earlier style endured, and was restored in 1901. [85] In 1876 the three Punjab Light Field Batteries were reduced to form two further mountain batteries, [59] and the four were then renumbered according to their relative precedence, and designated Punjab Mountain Batteries, Punjab Frontier Force. [100] Between the wars imperial epics displaying expansive adventure landscapes were produced by the British film industry, including the Korda trilogy of Sanders of the River(1935), The Drum(1938), and The Four Feathers(1939) – the latter two in Technicolor. In the late 1930s Hollywood also made a number of films that celebrated the British empire and bore some resemblance to Westerns, but ceased making such films after the Second World War. While the empire genre in British film continued, there were considerable changes that modernised imperial identity and changed the presentation of imperial heroes and adventure landscapes to bring them into line with the ideal of a Commonwealth of equal nations.

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Roger, Alexander (2003). Battle Honours of the British Empire and Commonwealth Land Forces 1662–1991. Crowood Press. Marlborough, Wiltshire. ISBN 1-86126-637-5. Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a Sikh ruler of the sovereign country of Punjab and the Sikh Empire. His Samadhi is located in Lahore, Pakistan. Not With the Safety On, You Won't: Attempted as a bluff by Peters who, as an arms dealer, would be considered the gun expert on the train. The hero is more credible like the heroes and leaders you see in real-life - not huge and invincible like Arnold. Puts his own life at risk to save a young Hindu prince's life from Muslim rebels all the while knowing that the kid will be coerced to fight against him should the British not cease the occupation of India. Nevertheless, his actions are based on his duty as a soldier and as a compassionate human being. Indeed, in comparison with the John Ford classic this might not have been its equal in renown and reputation, but it was every bit as effective at both getting the adrenaline pumping and delving into the character interplay, and in some ways it bettered it as in that earlier favourite nobody began to discuss the justification for the American Indians' warlike behaviour and which side was really more moral. While the Moslems are ostensibly the villains as they wish to kill the little prince, you could just as well say the British have played their part in sending the situation into these dire results in the first place, and Scott is by no means given a pass simply because he is a soldier in a supposedly more civilised army.

Hazara Mountain Train Battery, PIF, in 1856. (Formed at Haripur in 1851, by Lt. G. G. Pearse.) [91] Robert E. L. Masters, Eduard Lea (1963). Perverse crimes in history: evolving concepts of sadism, lust-murder, and necrophilia from ancient to modern times. Julian Press. p.211 . Retrieved 5 April 2011. Old Railway 2". Garingo.cool.ne.jp. Archived from the original on 7 March 2009 . Retrieved 2 July 2009. North West Frontier (USA: Flame Over India; Australia: Empress of India) [3] is a 1959 British Eastmancolor adventure film starring Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White and I. S. Johar. The CinemaScope film was produced by Marcel Hellman and directed by J. Lee Thompson. It was a commercial success at the British box-office in 1959. The film's success led to J. Lee Thompson beginning his American career as a director. [4] Regiment, originally raised at Karachi in 1843 as the Scinde Camel Corps, and redesignated Punjab Infantry in 1853. [84]In 1957, More announced he would play "a romantic adventure" part set during the Indian Mutiny, Nightrunners of Bengal. [5] That film was never made and it is likely that More was transferred instead to North West Frontier, a similar project. [5] Olivia de Havilland was originally announced as the female lead. [6] Lauren Bacall's casting was announced in January 1959. [7] She sold her Hollywood house and put her children in school in London for the duration of the shoot. [8] Filming [ edit ] This is India. The North West Frontier province. 1905. A country of many religions. Men find many reasons for killing each other - greed, revenge, jealousy or perhaps because they worship God by different names. Although regarded as nowadays “no good except for shunting”, her driver, Gupta, has boundless confidence in Victoria: Corps of cavalry and infantry, raised at Peshawar in 1846 by Lt. Harry Lumsden, and later based at Hoti Mardan. [49] Originally one troop of cavalry and two companies of infantry, [50] the cavalry component later expanded to 2½ squadrons, and the infantry to 4½ companies. [49] Two further infantry battalions were raised in 1917. [51] The fictional town of Haserabad comes under siege by the entirely generic rebels, but Captain Scott – having immediately been established as our almost omnipotent English hero – naturally devises a way to escape with the prince. He finds a rather neglected old steam train that can be rigged up to break out of the city gates and reach safety in the distant city of Kalapur. Besides Prince Kishan and his American governess (Lauren Bacall), Scott will be accompanied by the Governor’s wife Lady Windham (Ursula Jeans), a senior British civil servant named Bridie (Wilfrid Hyde White), Gupta the engine driver (I. S. Johar), and two Indian soldiers who the filmmakers have apparently decided not to burden with either names or characters.

The production started in Rajasthan, India in April 1959. [9] More recalled in his memoirs that it was a physically difficult shoot with many of the cast and crew falling ill with dysentery and other illnesses. The unit stayed at a former Maharajah's palace which had been turned into a hotel. [10] Several Rajasthan landmarks were used as filming locations. Jal Mahal (meaning "Water Palace") in Jaipur city, the capital of the state of Rajasthan, represented the Maharaja's palace at the start of the film. Although it now stands within Man Sagar Lake, the water levels in the 1950s were so low, horseriders could be filmed riding up to its entrance. [11] In Amber the Amber Fort was used as the British governor's residence; other scenes prominently feature the Jagat Shiromani Temple complex. Hundreds of extras were employed for the shots filmed in India. The metre-gauge railway running through Jaipur was used for the scenes where More escapes by train and later discovers the massacre of the refugee train. [12] The Anchurón bridge in southern Spain was used for exteriors in the bomb-damaged bridge scenes. Studio sets and models were used for close ups. The real bridge was renovated in the 1970s. [13] Peshawar Mountain Train Battery, PIF, in 1862. (Formed at Peshawar in 1853 by Capt. T. Brougham.) [91] Howard Thompson (23 February 1964). "New Chapter For A Manhattan Hollywood Queen". The New York Times.The Frontier Revolt of 1897-8 saw the Kohat and Derajat batteries in action again, earning the honours T IRAH and P UNJAB F RONTIER. [102] North West Frontier, 1959, directed by J. Lee Thompson and produced by Marcel Hellman for the Rank Organisation. Colour, 124 mins. NORTH WEST FRONTIER is the quintessential British adventure story. Its high production values puts it that bit above others of the genre. It's hard to go wrong when you have a well told story well directed beautifully photographed and well played out by a good cast.

On arrival at Haserabad, Captain Scott sees that many local Hindus and Europeans are leaving on the last train to Kalapur. The Muslim rebels soon close in and take control of the outer wall and gate beside the railway yard. The British governor tells Scott that he must take the young prince to Kalapur for his safety. In the railyard, the British captain discovers the " Empress of India", an old railway engine cared for by its driver Gupta, affectionately known as Victoria. They calculate that it will manage the journey if limited to pulling a single carriage. Indeed, dangerous country. The middle picture is of a station called Hangu. The right hand is, I think, of Thal. I am not sure the line was there in 1897, but I think it was by 1905; a lot of the railways in this area where military in inspiration, so went hand in hand with the growing need to campaign in the region. The Khojak tunnel line in Baluchistan, for instance, was completed in 1891. The line to Kohat is not shown in the maps in Frontier Ablaze. I was planning a 'Part 2' post concerning my attempts to find an historically plausible alternative for the train in North West Frontier, but your post prompts me to post a sort of 'Part 1(a)' In the context of 1959 and the new status of the United States as Top Nation, it is highly significant that it is Lauren Bacall (as the American governess, the widowed Catherine Wyatt) who shoots Van Leyden, thus saving Captain Scott. This must surely have been very meaningful to a 1959 cinema audience, most of whom had recently lived through the Second World War, in which the USA came to Britain’s aid. Designated 130th Baluchis in 1903, the subsidiary title was restored in 1910. [68] Artillery [ edit ]Formed in 1846 to guard the southern part of the North-West Frontier. Initially consisting of just the Scinde Irregular Horse, the force under Capt. John Jacob was part of the Bombay Army. [59] Cavalry [ edit ] Donald Sydney Richards (1990). The savage frontier: a history of the Anglo-Afghan wars. Macmillan. p.182. ISBN 0333525574 . Retrieved 5 April 2011. Politically Incorrect Hero: Scott has elements of this, although this is Deliberate Values Dissonance given that he's a British soldier in India in 1905. A third regiment was raised in 1857, [65] and in 1860 the regiments were designated simply Scinde Horse. [60] [63] I even have some Indian troops in 1/72nd, intended for deployment against the Ottomans in Mesopotamia or Arabia and the Germans in East Africa in WW1. I see these regions are within you areas of interest too. Fancy the Hejaz railway next? It may interest you to know that, on "dress up as a famous Briton day" last week, we sent our daughter to school dressed as Gertrude Bell!