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Lawrence Military Asylum

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*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=MhooAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR4 ''The Lawrence Military Asylum :Being a brief account of the past ten years of the existence and progress of the institution established in the Himalayas by the late Sir H.M. Lawrence for the orphan and other children of European soldiers serving, or having served in India''] 1858 Google BooKs
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dpFeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA141 "Sonawur – Lawrence Military Asylum"] page 141 ''A Guide to Simla: With a Descriptive Account of the Neighbouring Sanitaria, Subathoo, Dugshaie, Sunawur, Kussowlie, Kotegurh, Chini, &c., &c., &c‬'' by W H Carey 1870 Google Books
:[https://archive.org/details/2020102689_202106/page/139/mode/2up "Sanawar"] pages 140-141 (scroll down) ''Punjab District Gazetteers Volume VII Part A Ambala District 1923-24''. 1998 reprint of 1925 original. Archive.org.
*William Hodson who became famous as the commander of [[Hodson's Horse]] was involved with the construction of the Lawrence Military Asylum in 1847. At the time he was stationed in [[Subathu]] with the [[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers| 1st Bengal European Fusiliers]]. [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cXgOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA39 Page 39], ''Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: being extracts from the letters of the late Major W. S. R. Hodson'' 2nd edition 1859 Google Books
*"The Lawrence Royal Military School, Sanawar India" by W Jaques Steel. ''The Bulletin of the Military Historical Society, Issue 45, August 1961'', pages 1-4. See also correspondence in ''Issue 47''. Available at the British Library
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