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*Dr Ali Jan's [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pakwgw/british_cemeteries_fata_landi_kotal.html Landi Kotal Cemetery, Khyber Pass]
*[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1980/03/14/khyber-pass-train-gives-nostalgic-glimpse-of-british-empire/0846dbef-9d67-4a96-bfd8-1b48102b4729/ "Khyber Pass Train Gives Nostalgic Glimpse of British Empire"] by Liz Thurgood and Manchester Guardian March 14, 1980 ''The Washington Post''.
*[https://library.duke.edu/exhibits/2012/holmes Randolph Bezzant Holmes Photographs]. Duke University Libraries (retrieved 29 May 2014)**[httphttps://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/holmes/httpkhyber---example-com-exhibits-sh/item/17651 pass Khyber Pass Photos]*** Select 3rd Photo. Afghan War Series 1919. Print 70. Landi Kotal and tribal villages]. 
The last British military post in the Khyber Pass before the Afghan border, about 30 miles west of Peshawar**[http://exhibits.library* Select 4th Photo.duke.edu/exhibits/show/holmes/http---example-com-exhibits-sh/item/17921 Afghan War Series 1919. Print 7. Camp at Landi Kotal. Left side of panorama]. [http://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/holmes/http---example-com-exhibits-sh/item/17931 Afghan War Series 1919. Select 5th Photo, Print 7a. Camp at Landi Kotal. Right side of panorama]. 
Prints 7 and 7a form a panorama of the British camp at Landi Kotal, the highest elevation in the Khyber Pass and the western-most portion of the Pass held by the British. The Third Anglo-Afghan War started here in May 1919. *[httphttps://wwwresearch.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_databasecollection_online/search_object_detailscollection_object_details.aspx?objectidobjectId=1498616&partidpartId=1&searchText=Lynch+album&fromADBC=ad&toADBC=ad&numpages=10&orig=%2fresearch%2fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&currentPage=3 Photograph of of the army camp at Landi Kotal 1920s] (click on image to enlarge), from the [httphttps://wwwresearch.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_databasecollection_online/search_resultssearch.aspx?orig=%2Fresearch%2Fsearch_the_collection_database.aspx&searchText=Lynch+album&fromDate=&fromadbc=ad&toDate=&toadbc=ad&x=14&y=16 Lynch Album], British Museum. The photographer was Hugh Dermot Lynch who served with the [[North Western Railway]] as a Transportation Officer
*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_043232-RE_171810.html Khyber Railway Station Landikotal Showing Train Ready to Start] sent 1928 with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043232-VE_216218.html reverse side]
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