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*[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) | *[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) | ||
*[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 | *[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 | ||
*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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| 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.
External links
- RAF Risalpur rafweb.org
- Charles Frederick Langley was in India on the North West Frontier 1920-1923 with the RAF 27 Squadron based at Risalpur. Photographs Family website
- Two postcards from the collection at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment to Adolf Feller of Switzerland. It appears he was visiting Risalpur, not based there.
- 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 stills
- Risalpur Airfield c 1939 flickr.com
- Risalpur 1944 from The Mumblings of Edward Sparkes (Flt Lt Edward D S N Sparkes)
- My father's Indian experience: RAF Risalpur, near the Afghan border, sometime between 1944 and 1947. guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle
- India List post Living in Nowshera in 1938 also mentions nearby Risalpur as does this further India List post