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*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/90553739@N06 reddin68's photostream on flickr.com] includes some photographs taken at Tank in 1917
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120204155938/http://www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/industrial/display.php?file=Military.txt&title=Military%20Trains Indian/South-Asian Industrial Locos: Military Trains] (irfca.com) by Simon Darvill has a section (scroll down) on the [[British Library]] collection of Lance Corporal Howgego who served in India with the 1/25st Battalion, The London Regiment between 1916 and 1919. Includes a transcript of a 1917 letter to his mother regarding the flooding at Tank
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120422171702/http://www.25thlondon.com/tank.htm Photographs of the Tank Floods] 25thlondon.com
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There could also be other extreme weather events, such as the 14th August 1917 flood at Tank described by Lance Corporal Howgego of the 1/25st Battalion, The London Regiment, which damaged the railway line midway between Tank and Kalabagh.<ref> Papers of Sgt Reginald Mortimer Howgego at the British Library Mss Eur C340: letter to his mother transcribed in [https://web.archive.org/web/20120204155938/http://www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/industrial/display.php?file=Military.txt&title=Military%20Trains Indian/South-Asian Industrial Locos: Military Trains] (irfca.com) by Simon Darvill (scroll down). [https://web.archive.org/web/20120422171702/http://www.25thlondon.com/tank.htm Photographs of the Tank Floods] 25thlondon.com</ref>
==Spelling variants==
Tank, Tonk
==External Links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131016051835/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7325117.stm Why Britons walked warily in Waziristan] by Alastair Lawson 21 April 2008 news.bbc.co.uk
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V23_250.gif Tank Tahsil] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 23'', page 244.
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V23_251.gif Tank Town] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 23'', page 245.
*Tank is briefly described [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.175794/2015.175794.Beyond-Khyber-Pass#page/n17/mode/1up page 23] ''Beyond Khyber Pass'' by Lowell Thomas, first published 1925. Archive.org. The author was American writer and broadcaster.
**Includes the statement that the name Tank was pronounced Tonk by the British.
*[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".
