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{{Places of Interest|title=Rawalpindi|name=Rawalpindi |link=http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004baabb19022754519f&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=1}}
'''Rawalpindi''' was the headquarters of [[Rawalpindi District]] in the [[Rawalpindi Division]] of [[Punjab|Punjab Province]] during the British period. In 1907 "The cantonment is the largest and most important in the Punjab, and perhaps in India"<ref name=name>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105626/page/n249/mode/2up Page 228] ''Punjab District Gazetteers, Volume XXVIIIA, Rawalpindi District 1907'', published 1909. Archive.org.</ref>. Barracks were located in at least two areas, '''Victoria Barracks''' and at '''West Ridge'''. Roberts Barracks, an Infantry barracks, was located at West Ridge.<ref>Lane, Trudy [https://web.archive.org/web/20200209053228/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/11311786/ Mortimer L.D.] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 23 January 2001. Retrieved 9 February 2020, archived.</ref>
There was an Arsenal at Rawalpindi, often abbreviated to RPA, which was located within the Fort.
*Details of a mid 1930s film [http://www.colonialfilm.org.uk/node/3574 Trial at Chaklala Military Testing Ground of Armoured Cars/Light tanks]. colonialfilm.org.uk. The original owner of the film, the British Empire & Commonwealth Museum has closed and the collection is now with [https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/bristol-archives/ Bristol Archives], where it may be viewed online catalogue reference [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/1997/153/1/33 1997/153/1/33]. Also viewable online films [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/1997/153/1/36 1997/153/1/36], [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/1997/153/1/37 1997/153/1/37], the latter a duplicate, and [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/1997/153/1/40 1997/153/1/40].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131130214339/http://archpresspk.com/Apr10_Comsats.htm Students of 4th year Architecture carried out a documentation of the colonial era architecture of the city of Rawalpindi] in 2010 (Department of Architecture, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad). Now an archived webpage (text only).
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20201111165204/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/9153934/Ale-under-the-veil-the-only-brewery-in-Pakistan.html "Ale under the veil: the only brewery in Pakistan"] by Jonathan Foreman 24 Mar 2012 ''The Telegraph'', archived. The Murree Brewery. By 1910 the company was finding it increasingly difficult to source clean water in [[Murree]] itself and transferred all its brewing to Rawalpindi.
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