McFALL, Crawford.

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With the Zhob Field Force 1890. First edition. The brief, bloodless campaign in the Zhob Valley, North-West Frontier, was a show of force intended to quell any thought of insurrection among the Khadarzai sept of the Shirani tribe - "a campaign against Nature, rather than man" (Neville p. 118). Subsequently, "McFall had time to prepare many landscape and portrait sketches which are interspersed with his text" (Riddick).Captain (later Colonel) McFall (1862-1923), of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry (attached to the Force as Baggage Officer), supplied the illustrations, which are certainly above the common run often associated with soldierly reminiscences. The National Army Museum possesses a number of albums by him and describes these as "perhaps the most brilliant of all [visual] personal recollections [of India by a serving officer]... executed in the 1880s and 1890s with an accomplishment which suggests a professional illustrator. In fact he regularly contributed drawings to The Graphic, covering his journey to India and subsequent service on the North-West Frontier, with the Zhob Field Force in 1890 and elsewhere" (Guy & Boyden, p. 322).Provenance: Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Wells-Cole (1984-1914), with his ownership inscription on the front free endpaper, dated 4 June 1895. Commissioned in 1884, Wells-Cole served with McFall's regiment on the North-West Frontier during the Tirah Expedition (1897-8), was mentioned in despatches and received the DSO. He later saw extens

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