William Hope Meiklejohn

Infobox Military Person
name= William Hope Meiklejohn
lived=
placeofdeath=


caption=William Meiklejohn
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allegiance=British Empire
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rank=Brigadier-General
commands=Malakand Field Force
battles=Siege of Malakand July 26 - August 2 1897
awards=Companion in The Most Honourable Order of the Bath
Order of St Michael and St George

Brigadier-General William Hope Meiklejohn CB CMG [Wylly p. 138] was a British military commander who, as a colonel, was in charge of the British garrison during the siege of Malakand in northern Pakistan from July 26 to August 2 1897, and who later led a relief force to the besieged fort of Chakdara along with Sir Bindon Blood, [BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6176805.stm "Rare British India documents surface"] retrieved June 2 2007] fighting against 50,000-100,000 Pashtun tribesmen [Wilkinson-Latham p. 20] [Gore p. 405] and suffering only 206 casualties. Meiklejohn was later credited for his skills in providing such a victory in dispatches sent to the military government in British India. [Dispatches from Major-General G de C Morton, 15 September 1897, cited in "The Risings on the North-west Frontier", The Pioneer press, 1898 appendix III]

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Printed sources:

* Gore, Surgeon General at Nowshera, for "The Dublin Journal of Medical Science", 1898
* Wilkinson-Latham, Robert "North-west Frontier 1837-1947", 1977 ISBN 0850452759
* Wylly, Harold C. "From the Black Mountain to Waziristan", 1912

Websites:

* BBC News [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6176805.stm "Rare British India documents surface"] retrieved June 2 2007