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'''Dum Dum''' was a British cantonment town north of [[Calcutta]] that now constitutes a suburb of that city. It was the headquarters of the [[Bengal Artillery]] until this transferred to [[Meerut]] in 1853.
There were only artillery troops stationed at Dum Dum until the end of the end of the [[2nd Sikh War|second Sikh War]] (c 1849)<ref>
[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fos3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA355 Page 355] "The British Soldier in India" by Dr Mouat Surgeon-Major HM Bengal Army. ''Journal of the Royal United Service Institution Volume X 1867''</ref>, when other regimental troops were additionally garrisoned there.
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