The Short Life and Times of Assistant Surgeon Donald E White

摘要

In historical terms, Operation HERRICK in Afghanistan is the latest instalment of a British military presence on the North West Frontier of India over several centuries. In the century from 1840 in particular, the British periodically fought the Pathan tribesmen, from whom the Taliban descend, to no discernible effect. From the seventeenth century until Partition in 1947, troops and officers of the East India Company, and subsequently of the expeditionary British Army in India and of the native Indian Army crisscrossed the continent, and the rich legacy of Regimental History survives in the modern order of march of both the Indian and Pakistan Armies. The graveyards of India contain the bodies of generations of fallen soldiers and administrators, which testify to this history.