Shwebo

Shwebo was the headquarters of the District of the same name in Upper Burma, situated in 22° 35' N. and 95° 42' E., on the Sagaing-Myitkyina railway, about sixty five miles north west by rail from Mandalay. It is located 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 at Shwebo.

Churches

• St Luke’s Shwebo 1887. Church of England. This church was possibly the Cantonment Church, or the Cantonment Church may have been an additional church.
• 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 collection: Dio Church, Shwebo by sarthit medhasith Suksumret Google+Photos. From one of the photographs of a foundation stone, this church may have previously been All Saints Church.
• Photograph: Hospital Shwebo with Different Descriptions of Ambulances, 1887 – 1897 by Felice Beato. Wall Street Journal. 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

Historical books online

• "Shwebo District" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 311.
• "Shwebo Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 322
• "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