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| Place Name: | Landi Kotal |
| State/Province: | Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) |
| Country: | Pakistan |
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Spelling variants
Landi Kotal, Landikotal, Lundi Kotal
Sites
- Cemetery
Transport Links
Landi Kotal was the last station on the Khyber Pass Railway route from Peshawar. See Khyber Pass Railway irfca.org
External links
- British era cemeteries in the Khyber Pass, including that at Landi Kotal jang.com.pk March 2008.
- Dr Ali Jan's Landi Kotal Cemetery, Khyber Pass
- Randolph Bezzant Holmes Photographs. Duke University Libraries (retrieved 29 May 2014)
- Afghan War Series 1919. Print 70. Landi Kotal and tribal villages. The last British military post in the Khyber Pass before the Afghan border, about 30 miles west of Peshawar
- Afghan War Series 1919. Print 7. Camp at Landi Kotal. Left side of panorama. Afghan War Series 1919. Print 7a. Camp at Landi Kotal. Right side of panorama. Prints 7 and 7a form a panorama of the British camp at Landi Kotal, the highest elevation in the Khyber Pass and the western-most portion of the Pass held by the British. The Third Anglo-Afghan War started here in May 1919.
- Photograph of of the army camp at Landi Kotal 1920s (click on image to enlarge), from the Lynch Album, British Museum. The photographer was Hugh Dermot Lynch who served with the North Western Railway as a Transportation Officer
- From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment to Adolf Feller of Switzerland.