Shwebo

Shwebo
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates:	22.566667°N 95.7°E
Altitude:	89 m (292 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Shwebo
State/Province:	Sagaing Region
Country:	Burma
Transport links
Burma Railway

Shwebo was the headquarters of the District of the same name in Upper Burma during the British period. It is located on the Sagaing-Myitkyina railway, about sixty five miles north west from Mandalay between the Irrawaddy and Mu rivers, 16½ miles west of Kyaukmyaung on the Irrawaddy. There was a cantonment, established in 1888, located to the north-east of the town on high ground.

The stone S.P.G. church was situated in the north-west.corner of the town, and the Roman Catholic church in the south-east corner.

During the First World War, there was a camp for Turkish Prisoners of War.

Churches

• St Luke’s Shwebo 1887. Church of England.

• All Saints SPG Mission Church. Church of England. A stone church, probably constructed after 1899, following a fire which deserted almost all the mission buildings.

Also see

• POW Camps in India

Volunteer Regiment

Shwebo was the head-quarters of a company of the Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles, drawn from the Shwebo, Katha, Bhamo, and Myitkyina Districts.

External links

• Shwebo Wikipedia
• Photograph: Hospital Shwebo with descriptions of different Ambulances, 1887 – 1897 by Felice Beato. Wall Street Journal, now an archived webpage. This photograph was included in an exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum
• Photographs: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers: Colonial Buildings of the 19th Century Scroll down for two photographs of Shwebo c 1906. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster

Sketch Map of Cantonment, Shwebo, Burma, 1906 from Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster

Historical books online

• "Shwebo District" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 311.
• "Shwebo Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 322
• Burma Gazetteer: District Series. Shwebo District Vol A 1929. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. A transcribed edition of a volume c 1924 is available from myanmar-law-library.org
• "Shwebo" page 326 Wanderings in Burma by George W Bird 1897. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University.
• "Camp for convalescents at Shwebo (Burma)" [for Turkish Prisoners of War, WW1], page 57 Reports on British prison-camps in India and Burma, visited by the International Red Cross Committee in February, March and April, 1917 Archive.org