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Also see "Historical books online", below.
Also see "Historical books online", below.
==First World War==
There was a Young Officers’ School at Ambala c 1917-1919.  This appears to have been associated with a similar School at [[Subathu]]<ref>[https://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/school-of-instruction-for-officers-sabathu-ambala-1917-to-1918/ "School of Instruction for Officers, Sabathu & Ambala, 1917 to 1919"] September 13, 2012. Gill family’s service in the First World War. gillww1</ref> and it seems likely  that Subathu was the summer location of this School.
==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_295.gif Ambala City] Imperial Gazetteer of India
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_295.gif Ambala City] Imperial Gazetteer of India
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115692 ''Gazetteer Of Ambala District, 1883-84'']. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115692 ''Gazetteer Of Ambala District, 1883-84'']. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.115692/2015.115692.Gazetteers-Of-Ambala-District-1883-84#page/n81/mode/2up/search/Cantonment The cantonment], page 64
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.115692/2015.115692.Gazetteers-Of-Ambala-District-1883-84#page/n81/mode/2up/search/Cantonment The cantonment], page 64
*[https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/n5 ''Fringe of the Clouds''] by Air Marshal  Sir Philip Livingston 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/96  "Chapter 5 India with the Royal Air Force 1920-1922"] page 97.  The author was a medical officer with the RAF, based at Ambala.
*[https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/n5 ''Fringe of the Clouds''] by Air Marshal  Sir Philip Livingston 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/96  "Chapter 5 India with the Royal Air Force 1920-1922"] page 97.  The author was a medical officer with the RAF, based at Ambala. There is a description of the cantonment [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/104 page 105].
==References==
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Revision as of 09:17, 19 June 2019

Ambala
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 30.38°N 76.78°E
Altitude: 264 m (866 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Ambala
State/Province: Haryana
Country: India
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Ambala was the headquarters of Ambala District in the Delhi Division of Punjab Province during the British period.The Ambala Cantonment was established in 1843 after the British abandoned its cantonment at Karnal, following the malaria epidemic of 1841-42.

Spelling Variants

Modern spelling: Ambala
Variants: Umballa

FIBIS resources

Churches

The cantonment church is called St Paul's and it has a large graveyard and war memorial. St Paul’s Church, ‘an edifice which has been much admired’ was designed by Captain George Atkinson of the Bengal Engineers, according to this Archives,org link. He was the author of Curry & rice' on forty plates : or, The ingredients of social life at 'our station' in India, published 1860, refer Society reading list, and Historical books online, below which may have been based on life in the cantonment at Umballa.

St Paul's Church was bombed in 1965 and is now in ruins.

Cemeteries

List and images of graves at Ambala Christian cemetery www.gravestonephotos.com (Scroll down for list)

Also see "Historical books online", below.

First World War

There was a Young Officers’ School at Ambala c 1917-1919. This appears to have been associated with a similar School at Subathu[1] and it seems likely that Subathu was the summer location of this School.

External Links

  • Ambala City Imperial Gazetteer of India
  • Ambala Wikipedia
  • Ambala Cantonment Wikipedia
  • Gazetteers Of Haryana, previously part of Bengal. Haryana Government website. Includes Ambala District 1883-84, 1892, 1923-24, the latter available as a searchable pdf. revenueharyana.gov.in
  • Paul’s Church Ambala by Ramesh Lalwani 4 December 2005 mangalorean.com
  • "A peep into the history of Ambala" by Lt Gen Ranjit Singh (retd) April 6, 2014. tribuneindia.com (retrieved 21 April 2014). The Ambala Cantt with tree-lined roads and open spaces owes its origin to Capt Robert Napier, a Bengal Sappers officer
  • RAF Ambala rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014)

Historical books online

References

  1. "School of Instruction for Officers, Sabathu & Ambala, 1917 to 1919" September 13, 2012. Gill family’s service in the First World War. gillww1