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There were military cantonments at '''[[Jalapahar]]''' (alternative spelling '''Jellapahar''') (established 1848), Darjeeling and at '''Lebong''', situated below Darjeeling about eight miles away. Lebong cantonment was established in 1882 as part of the Jalapahar cantonment, and became a separate cantonment in 1895.<ref>[http://wwwmygorkhaland.darjeelingtimeswordpress.com/newstag/dehradun/news/Discursive-Hills-Book-Review-.html Dr. Wangyal's Column : Discursive Hills] 1 November 2008 Darjeelingtimesmygorkhaland.wordpress.com</ref>There were artillery barracks at '''Katapahar''', above Darjeeling and it appears that this was what was called the Darjeeling cantonment. The term "Darjeeling cantonment" seems at times to have also included Jalapahar, which was a convalescent depot. <br>'''Senchal''' was a station five miles from Darjeeling, at an elevation of about 8,600 feet.<br>'''Takdah''' 16 miles south east of Darjeeling by motor road was in use as a cantonment for two Gurkha battalions 1910 to 1926, when it was closed due to unsuitable climatic conditions.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.150149/page/n149/mode/1up Page 146] ''Bengal District Gazetteers - Darjeeling'' by Arthur Jules Dash 1947 Archive.org.</ref> In 1915 it was the Depot for 2nd 10th Gurkha Rifles<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.41117/page/n489 Page 483] ''The Quarterly Civil List For Bengal (1915) No.196''. Archive.org. Incorrectly catalogued 1918.</ref> and in January 1919 was listed as a [[POW Camps in India|Place of Internment/Prisoner of War Camp]]. ==Spelling variants==Modern name: Darjeeling<br>Variants: Darjeeling/Darjiiling/Darjiling/Dorjeling

**[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=521&s_id=711 Named images of graves at Hill Cart Road cemetery] Fibis database**[https://web.archive.org/web/20150315122011/http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/news/Ecological-issue/Darjeelings-English-Cemetery.html Darjeeling’s English Cemetery] by Rebecca Bragg with informative comments at the end, November 06, 2009 DarjeelingTimes.com, (now archived), a subsequent article dated [https://web.archive.org/web/20131121012742/http://www.darjeelingtimes.com/opinions/general/231-darjeelings-english-cemetery.html Darjeeling's English Cemetery] by Rebecca Bragg 7 February 2010 ] (now archived) and also the [https://web.archive.org/web/20160625074459/http://rebeccabragg.com/updated_story_10.html updated information] from her website (now archived) including a Questions and Answer session with a [[BACSA]] representative in July 2010 and [https://web.archive.org/web/20160625053923/http://rebeccabragg.com/cemetery_photos_7.html Cemetery photos], now archived.* Darjeeling New Cemetery. (Singtom Cemetery] Established 1858.** This In the 1980s this cemetery was in a devastated condition, <ref>Sinclair, James. [httphttps://archiverweb.rootswebarchive.ancestry.comorg/web/20201019043430/thhttps:/read/INDIAmlarchives.rootsweb.com/2007-05listindexes/1179823575 emails?listname=india&thread=15656986 Destruction of graves] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List post'', 26 August 1998, now archived.</ref> but subsequently [[BACSA] reports that ] provided a substantial grant for restoration c 1998 for the Singtom cemetery is in and a neglected state and gravestones have disappearedfurther grant for the old St Andrew's Cemetery.<ref>llewellyn-jones, rosie. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201019043738/https://mlarchives.rootsweb. com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=12905364 Darjeeling Cemetery] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'', 11 February 2000, now archived.</ref>* The Jewish cemetery . The approximate location is mentioned in the comments by Peter J. Karthak on November 8, 2009 in Rebecca Bragg's article above. No records appear to have survived.

A [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA (British Association for Cemeteries There is advice in South Asia)]] cemetery publication is *''Darjeeling and the Dooars: Christian Cemeteries and Memorials 1842–1995'' by Eileen Hewson, 2006. A record of the cemeteries and isolated webpage "Darjeeling’s historic graves from this corner of India with MIs and biographical notes on the planters and other notable tombs. 93pp, 23 illustrations, and map. See "<ref>[httphttps://indian-cemeteriesleonjlyell.blogspot.orgcom/bacsa2020/html05/bacsa_booksphotographing-darjeelings-historic.html BACSA Books"Darjeeling’s historic graves"]14 October 2020 leonjlyell. ([[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] are in the process of putting the indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browseblogspot. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA com</ref> that Find a Grave, refer External links below, has entries for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service)several specified Darjeeling cemeteries.

* [http://memberswww.virtualtouristtrekearth.com/mgallery/pAsia/mIndia/220341East/West_Bengal/Darjeeling/photo1413561.htm St Columba's Church] (Estab 1894) virtualtouristtrekearth.com* St Andrew's Church (Built 1843 and rebuilt 1873)

**[http://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=929&s_id=229 List of "The Children of Mary" taken from a roll of honour at the Loreto Convent School at Darjeeling 1888-1912] Fibis database

**[http://www.sjcnorthpoint.com/annual.php North Point Annuals from 1895] including***''The North Point Annual Volume II, No 5, 1917'' [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sjcnorthpoint.com%2Fannuals%2FNorth%20Point%20-%201917.pdf html version], [http://www.sjcnorthpoint.com/annuals/North%20Point%20-%201917.pdf pdf]. Includes details of students' war service.***[http://www.sjcnorthpoint.com/annuals/A%20Century%20Observed.pdf ''A Century Observed 1888-1898''] History of the School* St Michael's (girls school). Changed it's name to Government College in 1947.*St Paul's (Jalapahar):[http://www.stpaulsdarjeeling.com/history.php? History of St. Paul's School, Darjeeling] from the School website.:St. Paul’s was run on the lines of a typical British public school. C 1937 most of the teachers were British, some Anglo-Indians and two Indians. Most of the pupils were Christians, Jews and Armenians, and there were also some Hindus and a few Moslems. Whenever the students went out they wore the school cap and carried an umbrella as it rained quite often in Darjeeling.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190711143518/https://sayeedsjournal.wordpress.com/chapter-5-st-pauls-school-darjeeling-1937-38/ "Chapter 5 St. Paul’s School, Darjeeling 1937-38"] by Khwaja Sayeed Shahabuddin (born 1923) from his autobiography ''Lest I Forget''.</ref>

:''Taylor’s Maps of the following Tea Districts, Darjeeling, Terai, Jalpaiguri and Dooars, Darrang, Golaghat, Jorhat Nowgong, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur, Dibrugarh, Cachar, Sylhet, with complete Index to all Tea Gardens'', published 1910

== External Links links ==

*[https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/search?cemetery-name=&cemetery-loc=Darjeeling%2C+West+Bengal%2C+India&only-with-cemeteries=cemOnly&locationId=city_404912&page=1#cem-2702234 Find A Grave: Darjeeling]*[http://www.koi-hai.com/darjeelingDefault.html aspx?id=567763 Memories: Darjeeling] from the website Koi-Hai*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120401205558/http://darjeelingnews.net/darjeeling_tea.html Darjeeling Tea History], archived.

*Photos of Darjeeling from [httphttps://www.oldindianphotos.blogspot.comin/search/label/Darjeeling Old Indian Photos]*[https://www.taleof2backpackers.com/das-studio-darjeeling/ Das Studio, Darjeeling -capturing moments]:[http://www.ratnapradhan.com/das-studio/das-archives/ Old photographs of Darjeeling from the Das Studio Photo Archives] from Ratna D Pradhan’s Himalayan Light: Images of the Himalayas. If you cannot access this link, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200124085409/http://www.ratnapradhan.com/das-studio/das-archives/ archived link] provides an indication of the content.

*[http://www.thehimalayanbeacon.com/photogallery/index.php?/category/11 The Robertsons and Darjeeling - A photo feature by Miss Ally McGurk] Click to enlarge. thehimalayanbeacon.com*Photographs:[http://www.flickr.com/photos/cathforrest/sets/72157624430457701/ Darjeeling English] Cath Forrest’s collection on flickr.com. Includes The Album description includes the wording "...the New School, set up during the Second World War to educate the children of British families in India safely, away from the threat of Japanese bombs, was closed at the end of the war. My mother and her classmates, some as young as five, were sent up here all the way from Calcutta on the Darjeeling Mail and the Toy Train.".

*[httphttps://wwwweb.windamerehotelarchive.comorg/web/darjeeling20160412123331/history.asp History of Darjeeling] from Windamerehotel.com*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/india/lebong.html The cantonment at Lebong 1910] Postcard from Images of Asia, now archived.*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.com/galleryaccommodation03.htm 20th Century Barracks in India] Includes Lebong. From Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster.*[http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15799coll123/id/78892/rec/156 Photograph: Missionary being taken up hill on a litter [dandy<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Darjeeling, ca.1890] Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland. USC Digital Library

===Online Historical booksonline===

*''Bengal District Gazetteers: Darjeeling'' by L.S.S.O’Malley (reprint 1985/1999, original 1907) is available to download as a searchable pdf file at [httphttps://dspacearchive.wbpublibnetorg/details/dli.govpahar.in0219/dspacemode/handle/10689/2958 DSpace at West Bengal State Central Library2up ''Dorje-ling'']by H V Bayley 1838. Also available as Google Books [http://booksArchive.org, mirror from Pahar, Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.googleAlternative spelling Dorjeling.com/books?id=LhOzszXcM9UC&pg=PP15 Preview]**[httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=LhOzszXcM9UCZEMFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA189 PA26 "Darjeeling -The cantonments at DarjeelingNew Indian Sanitarium"]page 261 ''Parbury's Oriental Herald and Colonial intelligencer Volume Ii, page 189July-December 1838''. Google Books**[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=LhOzszXcM9UCU6_bUukB-nIC&pg=PA191 PA263 "Jalapahar“Bye Laws” and Office Rules at Darjeeling 1st August 1841"], page 191263 ''The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer for 1842 Volume II'' Google Books**[httphttps://booksarchive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.google501560/2015.com501560.auBengal-Past#page/n81/mode/books?id=LhOzszXcM9UC&pg=PA201 2up "LebongDarjeeling in 1841"]by J. D., page 20174 ''Bengal, Past and Present, Journal of the Calcutta Historical Society Volume 44, July-Dec 1932''. Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection.

*:[httphttps://www.vsdharchive.org/vsdhdetails/dli.ministry.04790/dhr_bookmode/ 2up ''Newman’s Guide to Darjeeling & its Mountain Railwayand Neighbourhood''] 7th edition 1922 Archive.org.:[http: A //pahar.in/wpfb-file/1930-newmans-guide-to-darjeeling-s-pdf/ ''Newman’s Guide and Souvenir published by the to Darjeeling''] 1930. Pdf download Pahar-Himalayan Railway CoMountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. If download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2442/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version 1930, 9th edition].*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli. Ld2015.71769 ''Darjeeling Route Guide''] 1921 vsdhby George P Robertson 1913. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Darjeeling route guide: With directions, plans, a map and a complete index for the instruction and guidance of visitors to the town''. *[https://archive.org/stream/n3journal25grea#page/268/mode/2up "Beriberi in Lebong"] [in 1914] by Major J C Kennedy, Royal Army Medical Corps, ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'', page 268 September 1915**[https://archive.org/stream/n3journal25grea#page/276/mode/2up Rough plan of Lebong cantonment, showing the bungalows] page 277*[http://www.vsdharchive.org/vsdhstream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/244/dhr_bookmode/chap_6.htm Chapter 6 "Suburbs of Darjeeling"2up “Darjeeling”] includes details about the cantonments at Lebongfrom ''Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, Jalapahar commerce and Katapahar (although confusingly the latter is also called Jalapahar)industrial resources'' by Somerset Playne 1917 Archive.org*Catalogued as [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.37708 ''History Of The Darjeeling District'' ] by E C Dozey 1917 is available to read online on the Digital , Archive.org, Public Library of India websiteCollection. Refer [[Online books#Digital Library of India|Online books-Digital Library of India]] Full title as for more details about this site2nd edition. A chapter on schools commences computer digital page 99, and a chapter on cemeteries, with details of some burials, commences computer digital page 140. Note some pages appear to be missing. :A revised 2nd edition, published c 1922 and is titled [https://archive.org/details/ConciseHistoryOfDarjeelingDistrictSince1835 ''A Concise History of the Darjeeling Districtsince 1835'' ] by E C Dozey Archive.org. The chapter on cemeteries commences [https://archive.org/stream/ConciseHistoryOfDarjeelingDistrictSince1835/Concise%20History%20of%20Darjeeling%20District%20since%201835#page/n185/mode/2up page 146]. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.619 Another file, Archive.org], where images perhaps may be better.*''Darjeeling & its Mountain Railway: A Guide and Souvenir published by the Darjeeling-Himalayan Railway Co. Ld.'' 1921 is also available to read online on download as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1921-darjeeling-and-its-mountain-railway-s-pdf/ pdf file] from [[Online books#Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset|Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset]]. If download link does not display, locate under Books/Indian Subcontinent. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2123 Archive.org mirror version].**[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2123/page/58/mode/2up Chapter 6 "Suburbs of Darjeeling"] includes details about the Digital cantonments at Lebong, Jalapahar and Katapahar. *[https://archive.org/details/dli.calcutta.04020/page/105/mode/2up "The Centenary of Darjeeling"] by Rev. H Hosten SJ page 106 ''Bengal Past and Present Volume 39 Jan-June 1930'' Archive.org *[https://archive.org/details/travelerstalemem0000cand/page/68 A trip to Darjeeling (1941)] page 68 ''A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India'' by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library . The author’s husband was a metallurgist/chemical engineer who worked in India 1941-46.*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1955-the-children-of India website-kanchenjunga-by-fletcher-s-pdf/ ''The Children of Kanchenjunga''] by David Wilson Fletcher. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3043 Archive.org mirror version]. Some editions may have the full title: ''The chapter Children of Kanchenjunga. On the lives of a tea-planter and his family in the Darjeeling Hills'', Published London 1955.:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1955-himalayan-tea-garden-by-fletcher-s-pdf/ ''Himalayan Tea Garden''] by David Wilson Fletcher. Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Cover title: ''Himalayan Tea Garden: A Young Family's Adventures on cemeteries commences actual page 146a Tea Plantation Near Darjeeling''. Published New York, 1955. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.3037 Archive.org mirror version]. [https://archive.org/details/himalayanteagard00flet/mode/2up Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library edition], catalogued 1956. Catalogue details state "Originally published in London in 1955 under title: ''The children of Kanchenjunga''". Elsewhere, computer page 189the author was stated to be a Gurkha officer who ran a tea plantation in Darjeeling in 1953.