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Ahmadnagar

Ahmadnagar was the headquarters of Broach District in the Central division of Bombay Presidency during the British period.

Ahmednagar was the location of the Royal Tank Corps School from the early 1920s, and the Machine Gun School

Modern name: Ahmednagar
Variants: Ahmednuggur/Ahmadnagat

There was a Boer POW camp during and after the Boer War, and a POW/internment camp for civilians during the First World War
See POW Camps in India

Christ Church, Ahmednagar
- There was a memorial for the 2nd Garrison Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. “Officers, NCO's and men who died at Ahmednagar 1917 -1919. 42 names." ^[1] It is not known whether this memorial still exists.

Ahmadnagar Imperial Gazetteer
"Where freedom held fort" by Himmat Singh Gill Sunday, September 3, 2006 tribuneindia.com. The Ahmednagar Fort held political prisoners in the 1940s including Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
Scroll down Incredible Ahmednagar, for details of the Tank Museum, established by the Armored Corps Centre and School, Ahmednagar in February 1994. Photographs on picasaweb rahul m’s Gallery, morakhandi v’s Gallery. Article "Tanks down the years" by Rajendra Rajan, tribuneindia.com Sunday, May 24, 2009
Ahmednagar: Fort: Boer And German POWs Held By The British YouTube Video. Contains some cemetery images.
YouTube videos from the National Army Museum

"Ahmadnagar City" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 5, page 123.
Ahmednuggur, in the Deccan, is listed in a List of all the military stations in the Bombay Presidency, with details, page 235 Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, Volume VII, New Series 1861 Google Books
Tales of Ahmednagar by Captain Cecil Cowley, 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers 1919 Archive.org. History of Ahmednagar, mostly for the pre British period.

↑ FIBIS Database Group Memorials, Percy-Smith/Bullock Papers. Individual names do not appear to be available.

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 *Scroll down [http://majhanagar.weebly.com/incredible-ahmednagar.html Incredible Ahmednagar], for details of the Tank Museum, established by the Armored Corps Centre and School, Ahmednagar in February 1994. Photographs on picasaweb [http://picasaweb.google.com/113353781365135287048/CavalryTankMuseumMIRCAhmednagar#  rahul m’s Gallery], [https://picasaweb.google.com/105304451929924548510/TripAhmadnagarPalashiNov11# morakhandi v’s Gallery]. Article [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20090524/spectrum/main6.htm "Tanks down the years"] by Rajendra Rajan, tribuneindia.com Sunday, May 24, 2009
 *[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-x1q3J2Mm4  Ahmednagar: Fort: Boer And German POWs Held By The British] YouTube Video. Contains some cemetery images.
+*YouTube videos from the National Army Museum
+**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpwl1jHHpmg&index=25&list=PL2FDA0D1DB6744C8A Gymkhana at Ahmednagar in India, 1939]
+**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8ftSBD6x3I&list=PL2FDA0D1DB6744C8A&index=27 3rd Cavalry mechanisation at Ahmednagar, 1939]
+**[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iakYh7k5q4&list=PL2FDA0D1DB6744C8A&index=26 3rd Cavalry mechanisation at Ahmednagar, 1939 - Pt 2]
 ====Historical books online====
 *[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_131.gif "Ahmadnagar City"]  ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 5, page 123.