Captain. Carey, 10th Hussars and his 1st Brigade Signal team are dispatched to the heights above Malakand Pass…

Their mission: deliver BrigGnl Ruff-Husband’s MESSAGE TO MAJ.GNL. WHITSEND at Peshawar…

They FLASHES the message, which is received and RELAYED by Signal Teams at Mardan and then Nowshera… and then on to its final destination: Peshawar Signal Detachment, regularly stationed atop the city’s Railway Building…

Handy diagram of a „Helio“:

MESSAGE CONTENT AS FOLLOWS:

ACTION 18 AUGUST … ATTACKED AT DAWN  ON 3 SIDES … COMBINED AZAKAI & BUNERWAL FORCES … INCLUDING GHAZIS … ESTIMATE 160 TO 200 TOTAL ENEMY … CLOSE-COMBAT ALONG SOUTH WALL … ALL ATTACKS REPELLED … SIGNIFICANT CASUALTIES INFLICTED ON ENEMY … NATIVE BUGLER DIRKA GRIMM OF YORKS & LANCS ACTED ABOVE & BEYOND CALL OF DUTY … 9TH GURKHA PIQUETS ATOP MALAKAND DISTINGUISHED THEMSELVES … NO. 2 DEJARAT MT. BATTERY SCREW-GUNS PERFORMED BRILLIANTLY … E/B RHA ARRIVED MIDST OF FIGHT … SWUNG INTO ACTION WITHOUT DELAY … PRELIMINARY ESTIMATE OUR CASUALTIES … 16 KIA, 26 WIA … SAD TO REPORT JEMADAR JAI HO SINGH 2ND PUNJAB CAV. PFF RETIRED KIA IN HAND-TO-HAND FIGHT AT SOUTH WALL … BROM SISTERS SAFE & SOUND … ENEMY COMMANDER GUL AKBAR KHAN WIA BUT RECOVERED BY HIS MEN … SUNLIGHT FADING … MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW VIA COURIER … INCL. PHOTOGRAPHS … SIGNED S.RUFF-HUSBAND, BRIG. GNL. COMMANDING 1ST BRIGADE PESHAWAR FIELD FORCE.