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In 1913 a Remount Depot was established to house 500 horses. In 1921, six Armoured Car companies were based there and in 1924 a [[Royal Tank Corps]] School was established at Ahmednagar. This School was the forerunner of the Fighting Vehicle School, and the area is now occupied by the Indian Armament & Electronics Regiment.
A remote hillside about six miles outside the city at Arangaon was leased by the British Indian Army towards the end of the First World War to house two (plague) segregation camps, supervised by the [[102nd Prince of Wales's Own Grenadiers| 2nd/102nd King Edward's Own Grenadiers]] and the 2nd/[[128th Pioneers]] of the Indian Army in 1919 on what later became known as Meherabad Hill.<ref>Greveson, Alan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160619035701/http://www.circlecity.co.uk/wartime/board/index.php?page=1 124 ''Alan Greveson's World War 1 Forum''] Reply . Scroll down to Mick’s post dated Tuesday 20th November 2012 at 9:16 pm and Alan Greveson's reply of the same date regarding buildings purchased at an abandoned military camp by early followers of Meher Baba in the 1920s. Retrieved 19 June 2016.</ref>
Ahmednagar was also the location of the Machine Gun School from the early 1920s.
