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*Image: The Barracks (B) Kirkee 1890, image 239 [http://www.slideshare.net/avinash15/old-pune-2  Slideshow of photographs : Old Pune] by Avinash Bhondwe  slideshare.net. Retrieved 30 August 2014. Enter 239 in the relevant box, and  select  Enter on your computer. Click on the icon next to the number box to enlarge.
 
*Image: The Barracks (B) Kirkee 1890, image 239 [http://www.slideshare.net/avinash15/old-pune-2  Slideshow of photographs : Old Pune] by Avinash Bhondwe  slideshare.net. Retrieved 30 August 2014. Enter 239 in the relevant box, and  select  Enter on your computer. Click on the icon next to the number box to enlarge.
 
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10438991/Prince-of-Wales-commemorates-Remembrance-Sunday-in-India.html "Prince of Wales commemorates Remembrance Sunday in India"] 10 November  2013 ''The Telegraph''. Includes details of the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Kirkee. The cemetery was created following the 1952 'rescue' of 1,668 fallen soldiers from neglected graves throughout India.
 
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10438991/Prince-of-Wales-commemorates-Remembrance-Sunday-in-India.html "Prince of Wales commemorates Remembrance Sunday in India"] 10 November  2013 ''The Telegraph''. Includes details of the Commonwealth War Graves cemetery at Kirkee. The cemetery was created following the 1952 'rescue' of 1,668 fallen soldiers from neglected graves throughout India.
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:[https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/146500/kirkee-1914-1918-memorial/ Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial] - This total  includes the names of 629 servicemen whose remains were brought from Bombay (Sewri) Cemetery for re-interment here in 1962; [https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/5001723/kirkee-new-cemetery/ Kirkee New Cemetery [First World War<nowiki>]</nowiki>],  [https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2016600/kirkee-war-cemetery/ Kirkee War Cemetery [Second World War<nowiki>]</nowiki>], [https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/2016601/kirkee-1939-1945-memorial/ Kirkee 1939-1945 Memorial] Commonwealth War Graves Commission
 
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/38811045@N04/ Photographs: Kirkee War Cemetery] includes Memorial panels. Taken July 4, 2005 by Paul C A Nixon Flickr.com
 
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/38811045@N04/ Photographs: Kirkee War Cemetery] includes Memorial panels. Taken July 4, 2005 by Paul C A Nixon Flickr.com
  

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Kirkee
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Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates: 18.570044°N 73.835156°E
Altitude: 570 metres (1,870 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Khadki
State/Province: Maharashtra
Country: India
Transport links
Great Indian Peninsula Railway

In the British era Kirkee was a town and cantonment in Poona District. See Bombay Districts.

Military history

Battle of Kirkee 1817

Spelling Variants

Modern name: Khadki
Spelling variants: Kirkee/Kirki

External links

Kirkee 1914-1918 Memorial - This total includes the names of 629 servicemen whose remains were brought from Bombay (Sewri) Cemetery for re-interment here in 1962; Kirkee New Cemetery [First World War], Kirkee War Cemetery [Second World War], Kirkee 1939-1945 Memorial Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Historical books online

  • Kirkee Imperial Gazetteer
  • Poona and Kirkee page 447 Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations 1864 Archive.org
  • "Map of Poona and Kirkee" between pages 342 and 343, A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.