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*[http://pmpfilms.blogspot.com.au/2010/01/murree-hills-cherat-india-1940.html Photographs: Murree Hills Cherat India 1940] pmpfilms.blogspot.com. Click on the images to enlarge in a slideshow.
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Dr Ali Jan describes Cherat as follows<ref>Originally written some years ago by Dr Ali Jan of Peshawar as an introduction for visitors to the region, describing a journey on the Grand Trunk Road from Rawalpindi to Peshawar.</ref>:
<blockquote> "A road on the left takes one to Cherat, another cantonment and a former hill sanitarium which lies few miles South from [[Nowshera ]] and [[Mardan ]] on the other side of the Grand Trunk Road. It was discovered by Major Coke whilst exploring the area in 1853. It is 4,500 feet above sea-level and was first used as sanitarium for British troops in 1861 and was declared a cantonment in 1886. There are many surviving British-era military installations, hospitals, cemeteries and a church here. A cliff side near the old parade ground has many regimental crests carved on the rocks. Presently, Cherat is the base of the commandos or the elite SSG and serves both as their headquarters and training school. It has a small military museum. The lofty location commands spectacular views of the Peshawar Valley on one side, and on the other of a portion of the Khwara Valley in [[Peshawar ]] District, and of [[Kohat ]] District as far as the Indus River".</blockquote>
There are some references to Cherat being located near [[Murree]] , or in the Murree Hills, but these references are incorrect.
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherat Cherat] Wikipedia
*[httphttps://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?/711/category/21 Cherat] and [https://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?/712/category/21 Cherat Square] from the [https://gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/category/21 FIBIS Gallery: Collection of Alfred Cecil Gregory] who served in the 5th Bn. [[East Surrey Regiment]] in various parts of India during [[First World War|WWI]].*[https://www.stamps-auctionflickr.com/pakistan-indiaphotos/13305961@N00/3901770308/in/set-old-postcard-charat-hill-at-murree-hills-for-sale-110258 72157622188938259 Postcard: Charat Cherat Hillnear Peshawar, Murree1920 general view]flick. com "History of Pakistan"
*From a collection of postcards 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
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043162-RE_171879.html Cherat Hill, Church] post stamped 18.8.1930 with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043162-VE_216149.html message]
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043161-RE_171880.html Cherat Hill, NWFP, British Guard Room], post stamped 25.5.1931 with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043161-VE_216148.html message]
*[http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/2nd%20Battalion%20Band.jpg Photograph: 2nd Battalion Band, The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, Cherat, North West Frontier, 1913] from Janet & Richard Mason’s [http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/queens_own_royal_west_kent_regiment.html The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment]
*Three views of regimental badge rock-carvings at Cherat (Charat) Hill. Cherat, like the Khyber Pass had a tradition of regimental carvings on the rocky faces of the hillsides.<ref>
[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43.html Peshawar Remembered] by Walter Reeve (born 1934). </ref>
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3907918420 pre 1920], [https://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Historical-Pakistan/190053491103230#!/photo.php?fbid=400718460036731&set=a.190081737767072.37476.190053491103230&type=1&theater same in black and white],[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3901783684/in/photostream 1920], [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ethbib.bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043159-RE_171882.html 1931]
*[http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2009-weekly/nos-19-07-2009/foo.htm#1 "A rock epic"]. An article by Ali Jan referring to a rock carving showing insignia of [[5th Regiment of Foot|Northumberland Fusiliers]], at Cherat from The News on Sunday 19 July 2009 (jang.com.pk)
===Historical books online===
*[http://archive.org/stream/highlandsindia01newagoog#page/n88/mode/2up “Cherat”], page 40 ''The Highlands of India Volume 1'' by David John Falconer Newall 1882 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=179 "Cherat"], page 157 ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1'' by Miles Irving (1910) Hathi Trust Digital Library
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