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{{Places of Interest|title=Rawalpindi|name=Rawalpindi |link=http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004baabb19022754519f&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=1}}
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'''Rawalpindi''' was a major cantonment the headquarters of [[Rawalpindi District]] in the [[Rawalpindi Division]] of [[Punjab|PunjabProvince]]during the British period. In 1907 "The cantonment is the largest and most important in the Punjab, and perhaps in India"<ref name=name>Page 228, computer page 251 ''Punjab District Gazetteers, Volume XXVIIIA, Rawalpindi District 1907'', published 1909, available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.</ref>. It was also the headquarters of [[Rawalpindi District]] and [[Rawalpindi Division]].
==Spelling Variants==
*K Company, [[North-Western Railway Battalion|North-Western Railway Volunteer Rifles]], was recruited solely from Railway employees with strength, exclusive of officers, 122
H Company, 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles contained civilian residents from Rawalpindi and [[Murree]], and had its headquarters at Murree.<ref name=name/>
==External links==
*[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Rawalpindi Rawalpindi] Love to Know 1911<br>
*[http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/reg_in_india/india42_1.html Rawalpindi - 1st Surreys and a Pindi Poppet] 1926-1930, from Regimental India 1825-1947 -The Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment
*[http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=13305961@N00&q=Rawalpindi Images of Rawalpindi] from "History of Pakistan"'s collection flickr.com
*[http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/25.jpg Photograph: Interior No 2 Pindi] Sleeping quarters in the barracks, Rawalpindi from [http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/Photograph%20Album%20of%20Pte%20H%20Knight.html Photograph album of Private Henry Knight], who served in "A" Company of the 1/5th Royal West Kent Regiment in India during the Great War from Janet & Richard Mason’s [http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/queens_own_royal_west_kent_regiment.html The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment]
====Historical books online====
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V21_277.gif Rawalpindi] Imperial Gazetteer of India
*''Punjab District Gazetteers, Volume XXVIIIA, Rawalpindi District 1907'', published 1909, is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. "Table of Contents" commences computer page 8.
