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'''Campbellpur''', now was the headquarters of [[Attock District]] in the [[Rawalpindi Division]] of [[Punjab|Punjab Province]] during the British period. Now called '''Attock''', it is a city located off the Grand Trunk (GT) Road in [[Punjab]]. It is the headquarters of [[Attock District]]. It is not to be confused with the town of [[Attock]] (or Attock Khurd) on the banks of the River Indus.

Although Wikipedia states it was founded in 1908 as Campbellpur City<ref>Wikipedia, [http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Attock&oldid=346007227 Attock] version accessed 1st March 2010</ref>, it appears that the cantonment was established much earlier when barracks were built at Campbellpore c1857-1858.<ref>[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=A1coAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA344 Nine years on the north-west frontier of India: from 1854-1863], page 344 by Sir Sydney Cotton 1868 Google Books</ref> A Machine Gun School was established at Campbellpur during the First World War.<ref> See [[25th Motor Machine Gun Battery (Calcutta Volunteers)]], which quotes from ''Chota Sahib... You've Had a Busy Day'', the autobiography of Charles Nida.</ref>