Roorkee
| Roorkee | |
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| Presidency: Bengal | |
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| Altitude: | 268 m (879 ft) |
| Present Day Details | |
| Place Name: | Roorkee |
| State/Province: | Uttarakhand |
| Country: | India |
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Home of Thomason College for Military Engineers studying to join the Public Works Department and Headquarters for the Bengal Sappers and Royal Engineers in Bengal
External links
- William Holmes, later Lt. Col. John David William Holmes MC, born 1877, in his Autobiography , Chapter 2 (from The Progonion) describes a year studying at the Civil and Military Engineering College at Roorkee c 1897 ( scroll about a third of the way down the page)