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**[http://www.allsaintschurch.co.in/allsaintschurch-khadki-photo-gallery?album=2&gallery=1 Images of the church]
**[http://www.allsaintschurch.co.in/allsaintschurch-khadki-photo-gallery?album=2&gallery=1 Images of the church]
** The website also contains online images of pages from church registers, (baptisms, marriages and burials) some of which are unfortunately somewhat indistinct to read. (Links are on  lower left hand side of the Home Page)
** The website also contains online images of pages from church registers, (baptisms, marriages and burials) some of which are unfortunately somewhat indistinct to read. (Links are on  lower left hand side of the Home Page)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0HuDaIDGD0 St.Andrew's Church,Khadki,Pune] You Tube
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0HuDaIDGD0 St. Andrew's Church, Khadki, Pune] You Tube
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10438991/Prince-of-Wales-commemorates-Remembrance-Sunday-in-India.html ""Prince of Wales commemorates Remembrance Sunday in India"] 10 November  2013 ''The Telegraph''. Includes details of the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Kirkee. The cemetery was created following the 1952 'rescue' of 1,668 fallen soldiers from neglected graves throughout India.
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10438991/Prince-of-Wales-commemorates-Remembrance-Sunday-in-India.html "Prince of Wales commemorates Remembrance Sunday in India"] 10 November  2013 ''The Telegraph''. Includes details of the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Kirkee. The cemetery was created following the 1952 'rescue' of 1,668 fallen soldiers from neglected graves throughout India.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/38811045@N04/ Photographs: Kirkee War Cemetery] includes Memorial panels. Taken July 4, 2005 by Paul C A Nixon Flickr.com
===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/342/mode/2up  "Map of Poona and Kirkee"] between pages 342 and 343, ''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.
*[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/342/mode/2up  "Map of Poona and Kirkee"] between pages 342 and 343, ''A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon'' published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.

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Kirkee
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Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates: 18.570044°N 73.835156°E
Altitude: 570 metres (1,870 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Khadki
State/Province: Maharashtra
Country: India
Transport links

In the British era Kirkee was an army cantonment north of Poona

Military history

Battle of Kirkee 1817

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Khadki
Spelling variants: Kirkee

External links

Historical books online

  • "Map of Poona and Kirkee" between pages 342 and 343, A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.