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* John G Walser MC was in India from 1922 to the end of 1925 with the Royal Air Force, including a posting to No. 31 Squadron which was stationed at Dardoni, in Waziristan. He wrote letters to his family detailing his experiences<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131115235904/http://www.davidwalser.com/my-father/ My Father: John G Walser] Scroll down for his account of this period. Family website, now archived, (retrieved on 18 April 2014)</ref>
*Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008691 1975 Interview with John William Easton], British NCO who served with 1 Wing, RAF at Miranshah Fort, 1928-1930 including contact with T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). Imperial War Museums
*[https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/blog/come-fly-with-me-raf-india/ "Come fly with me: Early days of the RAF in India"] by Pat Ellingham March 22, 2019. bristolmuseums.org.uk. Information about the films made by Leonard de Ville Chisman late 1920s/1930s including on the North West Frontier. These films are now in the Bristol Museums Archives British Empire and Commonwealth Film collection/ Chisman (ref. [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/2006/0052006/005]), . Currently (not currently available 2021/06) there are some digitised films viewable online), ref. [https://becc.bristol.gov. uk/records/2006/005/1 2006/005/1] but no digitised photographs, the latter seems to include “The sequence documenting Quetta both before and after the great earthquake of 1935 are of particular interest.“ For a description of one of the films see [http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/4128 colonialfilm.org.uk]- this may be viewed online [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/2006/005/1/15 Chisman collection 15: Footage taken in Waziristan, 1937] ref. 2006/005/1/15. See also film "14: Footage taken in Waziristan" and film "7: RAF wedding in Peshawar, India" c 1930s.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131116020854/http://www.rafcaa.org.uk/e29Memoirs.html Memoirs: Malcolm Macdougall]. He was posted in January 1938 to 20 A.C. Squadron, Northwest Frontier, where he spent two years at [[Peshawar]] and one year at [[Kohat]], with occasional detachments to Miramshah (Miranshah?). In 1941 he was posted to 27 Squadron [[Risalpur]] which later went to Singapore and Malaysia, then Ceylon. Website of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130916105607/http://www.rafcaa.org.uk:80/index.html RAF Cranwell Apprentices Association], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130820001224/http://www.rafcaa.org.uk/e29.html 29th Entry], all archived webpages.
*Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80000869 1977 interview with Wilfred Randall Page] British aircraftman and photographer served with RAF in GB 1933-1935; served with Photographic Section, 28 Sqdn, RAF at Ambala and in Waziristan, India, 1935-1939 Imperial War Museums
