FIGHT WITH AFRIDIS
A BAYONET CHARGE
BRITISH TROOPS IN ACTION
DELHI, 6th December. - British troops were in conflict with Afridis on the Aka-Khel Plain on Thursday. Captain Henry St. Clair Ogilvie Will, adjutant of Eattray's Sikhs, was killed by an almost spent bullet, and a private of Seaforth Highlanders was wounded.
Troops were covering roadmaking parties when the Afridis opened fire and attacked boldly till checked by a bayonet charge. The Jat Regiment and Seventeenth Dogras did good work driving the attackers back.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 137, 8 December 1930, Page 11
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