schalch

Updated: August 10, 2026

During the war these troops were employed at the front. The barracks became great hospitals. The whole place was crowded with transport and military stores; and only a slender force remained under the orders of Colonel Schalch, the Base Commandant. The road from Nowshera to the Malakand Pass and camps is forty-seven miles long, and divided into four stages.

Winston Churchill - The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War