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==Boer War period==During the Boer War there was a Prisoner of War Camp at Ambala. See [[POW Camps in India]].
==First World War==
There was a Young Officers’ School at Ambala c 1917-1919. This appears to have been associated with a similar School at [[Subathu]]<ref>[https://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/school-of-instruction-for-officers-sabathu-ambala-1917-to-1918/ "School of Instruction for Officers, Sabathu & Ambala, 1917 to 1919"] September 13, 2012. Gill family’s service in the First World War. gillww1</ref> and it seems likely that Subathu was the summer location of this School.
==External Linkslinks==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V05_295.gif Ambala City] Imperial Gazetteer of India
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambala Ambala] Wikipedia
*Umballa is mentioned in [http://www.archive.org/stream/aroundworldonbic02stevrich#page/298/mode/2up/search/Umballa ''Around the world on a bicycle Volume 2: From Teheran to Yokohama''], page 299 by Thomas Stevens 1888 Archive.org
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=63 "Ambala District"] page 33 A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1 by Miles Irving (1910) HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115692 ''Gazetteer Of of Ambala District, 1883-84'']. A volume in the series ''of Punjab District Gazetteers''. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.115692/2015.115692.Gazetteers-Of-Ambala-District-1883-84#page/n81/mode/2up/search/Cantonment The cantonment], page 64
:[https://archive.org/details/2020102689_202106/mode/2up ''Punjab District Gazetteers Volume VII Part A Ambala District 1923-24'']. 1998 reprint of 1925 original. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/n5 ''Fringe of the Clouds''] by Air Marshal Sir Philip Livingston 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/96 "Chapter 5 India with the Royal Air Force 1920-1922"] page 97. The author was a medical officer with the RAF, based at Ambala. There is a description of the cantonment [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/104 page 105].
