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==External links==
==External links==
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-R.htm#Risalpur RAF Risalpur] rafweb.org
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-R.htm#Risalpur RAF Risalpur] rafweb.org
*[http://www.maxwall.co.uk/army/info.htm Charles Frederick Langley]  was in  India on the North West Frontier 1920-1923 with the RAF 27 Squadron based at Risalpur. [http://www.maxwall.co.uk/army/gallery.htm Photographs] Family website
*Two postcards from the collection at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot |2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland. It appears he was visiting Risalpur, not based there.
*Two postcards from the collection at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot |2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland. It appears he was visiting Risalpur, not based there.
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ethbib.bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043154-RE_171887.html General View B.C Institutes & Barracks, Risalpur NWFP post stamped 27-12-29] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ethbib.bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043154-VE_216141.html  message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ethbib.bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043154-RE_171887.html General View B.C Institutes & Barracks, Risalpur NWFP post stamped 27-12-29] with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ethbib.bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043154-VE_216141.html  message]
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*[http://www.britishpathe.com/video/on-the-afghan-border/query/Pass  Newsreel: "On The Afghan Border - Air-Marshal Sir John Steel inspects the Bomber Squadron R.A.F. at Risalpur." 1934] britishpathe.com. May be viewed as a series of [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/stills/on-the-afghan-border stills]
*[http://www.britishpathe.com/video/on-the-afghan-border/query/Pass  Newsreel: "On The Afghan Border - Air-Marshal Sir John Steel inspects the Bomber Squadron R.A.F. at Risalpur." 1934] britishpathe.com. May be viewed as a series of [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/stills/on-the-afghan-border stills]
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2images/6902618841/ Risalpur Airfield c 1939] flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ww2images/6902618841/ Risalpur Airfield c 1939] flickr.com
*[http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/risalpur.htm Risalpur 1944] from [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/index.htm ''The Mumblings of Edward Sparkes''] (Flt Lt Edward D S N Sparkes)
*[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/12/readers-favourite-photographs-songs-recipes  My father's Indian experience: RAF Risalpur, near the Afghan border, sometime between 1944 and 1947]. guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle
*[http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/feb/12/readers-favourite-photographs-songs-recipes  My father's Indian experience: RAF Risalpur, near the Afghan border, sometime between 1944 and 1947]. guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle
*[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6209685/RAF-pilots-1930s-reconnaissance-snaps-emerge-sale.html "Exploring the North West Frontier from 21,000ft: RAF pilot's fascinating 1930s reconnaissance snaps of the Himalayas and Indus Valley emerge for sale more than 80 years on"] by Amie Gordon 26 September 2018. dailymail.co.uk. With photographs, including Risalpur.  
*India List post [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2006-09/1158813615 Living in Nowshera in 1938] also mentions nearby Risalpur as does this further India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2006-09/1158835365 post]


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Risalpur
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Present Day Details
Place Name: Risalpur
State/Province: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, old NWFP
Country: Pakistan
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Risalpur was a small town near Mardan in Peshawar District, North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

It was the location of a Royal Air Force base.

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