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*Kirkee Memorial for 1,800 servicemen who died in India during the First World War, who are buried in civil and cantonment cemeteries in India and Pakistan
*Kirkee War Cemetery contains 1668 Commonwealth burials from the Second World War - many graves have been reinterred at Kirkee from other sites in western and central India
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-11/1322212906 post] dated 25 November 2011 mentions a visit to St Sepulchre's Protestant Cemetery in the 1980s when burial records were available, however this India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-03/1331782216 post] dated 15 March 2012 indicates these records are not now at the cemetery, which is very overgrown, with snakes. India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-04/1334904356 post dated 20 Apr 2012] by Edmund Bourne with transcriptions of monuments in St Sepulchre Cemetery Poona [West Gate] The advises the East Gate section of the cemetery is totally in ruins. More general cemetery images may be seen [[:Category:Poona cemetery images|here]]. (This [http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report_christians-accuse-caretaker-of-running-illegal-nursery-in-hadapsar_1545862 report] dated 21 May 2011 details a dispute with the cemetery caretaker).:Transcriptions of monuments from St Sepulchre Cemetery, together with images are now available on the [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=1465&s_id=694 '''FIBIS database''']
==Newspapers==
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/poonaguidedirect00poon#page/2/mode/2up Poona Cantonment], page 2
**[http://www.archive.org/stream/poonaguidedirect00poon#page/42/mode/2up Officers in the Poona Rifles], page 43
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