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There were only artillery troops stationed at Dum Dum until the end [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 end of the [[2nd Sikh War|second Sikh War]] (c 1849)Royal United Service Institution Volume X 1867''</ref>, when other regimental troops were additionally garrisoned there.
[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Fos3AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA355 Page 355Related articles==*[[Ordnance Department]] "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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'''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>
==Churches==
==External links==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V11_382.gif Dum-Dum] Imperial Gazetteer
*[http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/287854 Photograph: Dum Dum Church] [St Stephen's] by Captain R. B. Hill 1850s. Metropolitan Museum of Art New York. Probably Richard Barton Hill 1835-1873, who joined the Bengal Army in 1853.
*[http://www.panoramio.com/photo/64028580 Photograph: St. Patrick's Church, Dumdum Cantonment, Kolkata] panoramio.com
*[http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-D.htm RAF Stations- Letter D] Scroll down to RAF Dum Dum. Lists the main units based there during WW2
===Historical bools books online===
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=6d5PAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA166 "East India Stations No. IX: Dum Dum"], page 166 ''The Saturday Magazine, Volume 8'' 1836 Google Books.Taken from the ''Asiatic Journal'' and Bishop Heber’s ''Journal''.
*[https://archive.org/stream/firstimpressions01baco#page/150/mode/2up "Dum Dum"] page 151, ''Volume I'', ''First impressions and studies from nature in Hindostan; embracing an outline of the voyage to Calcutta, and five years residence in Bengal and the Doab, from MDCCCXXXI to MDCCCXXXVI'' by Thomas Bacon, Lieut. Of the Bengal Horse Artillery 1837 Archive.org
