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Comment on FIBIS’s Facebook page 11 August 2013 by Shahjahan Bhatti "There is graveyard on River Indus in Dera Ismail Khan*[https://wiki.fibis. All graves are org/w/Category:Dera_Ismail_Khan_Cemetery_%26_Memorial_Images Images of English people who died here. .. I have witnessed around hundred cemented some graves with a cemented boundry wall. The cemetery is situated and memorials in cantonement area where these days civilians are not allowed...". Comment by Omer Dera ismail Khan "I thought that there was an old Christian graveyard near the old Anglican Church..."] Fibiwiki
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'''Dera Ismail Khan''' was the capital of [[Dera Ismail Khan District]] in the [[North West Frontier Province]] during the British period, North West Frontier Province having been created out of Punjab in 1901. In the 1920s it was always referred to as D.I.K. <ref>[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/49/2/143.full.pdf "Notes on a Tour Through Waziristan"] by Major A. D. Stirling ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1927;49:2 pages 143-151. </ref>
== Churches==
==Cemeteries==
*[[BACSA]] cemetery file - Dera Ismail Khan Cemetery , Pakistan (closed 1871). [[British Library]] ref Mss Eur F370/694
* Just over a dozen graves in both old and new cemeteries have been transcribed in [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=196 ''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), page 174. Hathi Trust Digital Library
*Comment on FIBIS’s Facebook page 11 August 2013 by Shahjahan Bhatti "There is graveyard on River Indus in Dera Ismail Khan. All graves are of English people who died here. .. I have witnessed around hundred cemented graves with a cemented boundry wall. The cemetery is situated in cantonement area where these days civilians are not allowed...". Comment by Omer Khan "I thought that there was an old Christian graveyard near the old Anglican Church..."
== Gallery ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160707053535/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/1514707/Church-is-melancholy-reminder-of-regions-rebellions.html Church is melancholy reminder of region's rebellions]. 03 Apr 2006 article detailing condition of St Thomas's Church and Memorial Inscriptions in Dera Ismail Khan. telegraph.co.uk, archived.
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/gaz-dera-ismail-khan-1883/page/n7/mode/2up ''Gazetteer of the Dera Ismail Khan District 1883-4''] 1884 Punjab Government. Archive.org
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/44/3/204.full.pdf "Waziristan District"] by Lieutenant-Colonel B. B. Burke ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1925; 44:3 pages 204-207. "Every officer must carry a loaded revolver when travelling on account of the possibility of fanatical attacks".
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