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Meerut was an important military garrison in colonial India and is situated north-east of [[Delhi]]. | Meerut was an important military garrison in colonial India and is situated north-east of [[Delhi]]. | ||
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[[Mutiny at Meerut]] May 1857 | [[Mutiny at Meerut]] May 1857 | ||
Revision as of 11:21, 8 February 2012
Meerut was an important military garrison in colonial India and is situated north-east of Delhi.
Military history
Mutiny at Meerut May 1857
Cemeteries
BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia) cemetery publications are
- Meerut: The First Sixty Years (1815-1875) by Alan Harfield, 1992 MIs and burial registers. Also a complete listing of the British and Indian regiments there along with a history of the garrison.
- Meerut Part II (1876-1939) by Alan Harfield, 1999 MIs and Burial Registers of Cantonment Cemetery; also Race Course Cemetery and Military Memorials.
BACSA have put the indexes to these cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
External links
- General View Royal Field Artillery (R.F.A.) Barracks, Meerut 1910 Postcard from Images of Asia
- Photograph of St John's Garrison Church - Meerut - 1822 taken in 2009 flickr.com
- Photograph of St Joseph's Church - Meerut – 1826 taken in 2009 flickr.com
- Photograph of St Paul's Methodist Church - Meerut – 1924 taken in 2009 flickr.com
