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*[http://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?%2F1070%2Fcategory%2F26 Postcard:  St Pauls, Ambala] Sidney Malins Collection, FIBIS Gallery
*[http://gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?%2F1070%2Fcategory%2F26 Postcard:  St Pauls, Ambala] Sidney Malins Collection, FIBIS Gallery
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=887&s_id=264 Images: Ambala Cantonment Cemetery] FIBIS database. Includes a photograph of a memorial erected by the [[21st Hussars]] in 1869
*[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=887&s_id=264 Images: Ambala Cantonment Cemetery] FIBIS database. Includes a photograph of a memorial erected by the [[21st Hussars]] in 1869
*[https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2063&s_id=887 Ambala Cantonment Cemetery Index of Memorials] Searchable database of names and images.


==Churches==
==Churches==

Revision as of 18:51, 20 November 2020

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

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