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==FIBIS resources==
*[[:Category:Cawnpore images|Images of Cawnpore]]
*[http://www.gallery.fibis.org/picture.php?/666/category/21 Photograph: Cawnpore Barracks 1915] FIBIS Gallery collection of photographs of Arthur Cecil Gregory who served in the 5th Bn. [[East Surrey Regiment]] in various parts of India during [[First World War|WWI]], including Cawnpore
*"Adam Maxwell of Cawnpore-Indigo and Intrigue" by Judith Vandenburgh Green [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal'']] ''Number 25 Spring 2011'', pages 25-33
*"William Garnett, the Volunteering Major" by Michael Garnett ''FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011'', pages 26-30. For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]
This cemetery was open 1781-1865 and up to 1846 was known as the Officers’ Burial Ground, as mainly military officers and their families were buried there. It became known as Kacheri Cemetery in 1857. [[Cemeteries#Inscriptions in online books|Blunt]] has some entries under Kachahri Cemetery. Private soldiers were buried at Hiramun-Ku –Purwa (open 1796-1818). The New Cantonment Cemetery was open 1818-1943.<ref>[http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:Ij5dojANAG0J:www.rcueslko.org/jnnurm/Kanpur/10%2520Chapter%252010%2520Heritage%2520and%2520Tourism.pdf+Kacheri+Cemetery&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiaO2TnCC6QoI29ymzo1XEalKdCKMMGUXKt3NI2AH-ucD1I2SpIXGzYLPpMz4n8THV71O5FMeuAh6Uwa3-UT_-D_668Te91A7L3tuaJm8iAcyu1pINievxjno5bBLVK0RT3V5dP&sig=AHIEtbRdkoY_o3LJAPK55CJVt3yhqTJZfA Kanpur Heritage and Tourism], page 4 and details from BACSA Archive at the British Library, Mss F370.</ref>
*Monumental Inscriptions from Cawnpur Cantonment Cemetery by Lieut-Colonel W A Gale R.E. from ''Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica: Fourth Series''. At least some of these entries may be found in the [http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=973&s_id=294 FIBIS database: Percy-Smith/Bullock papers: Graves and Monuments]
**Volume 1 1906 Archive.org [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n127/mode/2up/ Page 54], [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n253/mode/2up/ page 114], [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n311/mode/2up page 142], [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n373/mode/2up/ page 172], [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n467/mode/2up/ page 216], [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n551/mode/2up page 257], [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n625/mode/2up/ page 294]. [https://archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea1190bann#page/n697/mode/2up Index of Names] (Entire book).
**Volume 2 1908 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/20/mode/2up Page 21], [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/60/mode/2up/search page 61], [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/138/mode/2up/search page 138], [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/164/mode/2up/search page 164]. [http://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/340/mode/2up Index of Names] (Entire book).
==Economy and Business==
*[http://www.wiganworld.co.uk/album/photo.php?opt=6&id=5807&gallery=Bradshaw+family&offset=0 William Bradshaw] was appointed assistant weaving master at Muir Mills in 1931 and worked there until 1952
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170817053724/http://www.lal-imli.com:80/profile.html Profile of The British India Corporation] (now archived) which was registered as a Limited Company on 24 February 1920., to amalgamate a number of companies, most of which were located in Cawnpore:
**Cawnpore Woollen Mills Co. (established 1876). Still in existence as a Government of India Company, (along with New Egerton Woollen Mills Co. Ltd., Dhariwal, Punjab. (established 1882)).
**Cooper Allen & Co. Ltd. proprietors of the largest Army Boot and Equipment Factory in the world – Kanpur (established 1881)
** Cawnpore Cotton Mills Co. Ltd. (established 1882).
** Empire Engineering Co. Ltd., Civil, Mechanical, Motor and Constructional Engineers, Contractors and Builders – Kanpur (established 1894).
* The was a Government Harness & Saddlery Works in Cawnpore in existence in 1928. A marking on a bayonet leather scabbard "Ca1928" indicates the scabbard was from this Government works, manufactured in 1928. (Details<ref>DisasterDog [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/304371-my-first-1907-bayonet/?do=findComment&comment=3209302 My First 1907 Bayonet] ''Great War Forum'' 11 May 2023. Retrieved 17 May 2023.</ref>)
==Volunteer Regiments==
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279954/mode/2up ''District Gazetteers of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh: Volume XIX Cawnpore''] by H R Nevill 1909 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3109/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org
