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There was an Indian Boys Depot in Mhow which trained Boy Trumpeters, including [[Anglo Indian]] boys, c 1936. The top graduate was rewarded by being placed in the [[Royal Horse Artillery]]. <ref> Pages 122-123, ''Pick up your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India'' by William Pennington 2003</ref> It is not known whether this was a [[Royal Artillery]] Boys Depot
There was an internment camp at Mhow for Germans residing in India during the Second World War.<ref>
[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SoG0yYBlvf8C&lpg=PA25&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q=Mhow%20internment&f=false Page 25] A Soldier's Life in War and Peace by Maj.Gen A. S. Naravane Google Books ISBN 81-7648-437-7</ref>
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