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*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/pakistan/lytton-road.html Postcard: Lytton Road, Winter, Quetta] Images of Asia
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It was the location of a cantonment. There was a Barracks known as Roberts Barracks.
The Army Staff College moved to Quetta in 1907. Established in 1905at [[Deolali]], it was a training college for existing officers to become eligible for Staff appointments. The Staff College was temporarily closed 1915-1919 during the First World War, when the accommodation was transformed into a Cadet College to train young men for grant of commission in the British and Indian armies. It is now known as the Command and Staff College and is the most prestigious institution of the Pakistan Army.
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[[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] are in the process of putting the indexes to its cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
::FamilySearch have digitised the above BACSA book, which has restricted access, but which may be viewed on a FamilySearch computer at a FamilySearch Centre. viewing is not available currently (2023/12) [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/640922 Catalogue entry]. For more information, see and [[FamilySearch Centres]]https://www. '''Update June 2018. It appears that FamilySearch digital viewing is no longer possible. To be clarified'''familysearch.org/library/books/records/item/193202-quetta-monuments-and-inscriptions-baluchistan-pakistan FS Digital Library catalogue entry]
The [[British Association for Cemeteries in South Asia|BACSA]] Archive at the [[British Library]] has the following items:
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V21_026.gif Quetta Town] Imperial Gazetteer of India
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quetta Quetta] Wikipedia
*[httphttps://encscquetta.wikipediagov.orgpk/wiki2012/History_of_Quetta History of 08/11/historical-college-building/ Command and Staff College Quetta] Wikipediacscquetta.gov.pk*:[https://www.pakistanarmydssc.gov.pkin/AWPReviewhistory/TextContentThe%20Quetta%20Heritage.aspx?pId=291&rnd=495 Command and pdf Quetta Heritage: The Staff College, Quetta] pakistanarmy Defence Services Staff College (India) dssc.gov.pk. It moved to Quetta in 1907.
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60TTFC9K8os&feature=related Bruce Street] (now Jinnah Road) before 1935 earthquake.(youtube video)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nce3PWXpsa0 Post office] before and after earthquake (1935) (youtube video)
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUlVc5X912E Gora Kubristan Quetta: British colonial christian cemetery Quetta] by quettabalochistan, YouTube video
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/9164665@N04/sets/72157616334256664/with/3411976924/ Quetta's eloquent graveyard] A set of photographs by saaakif taken 2008. flickr.com
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140413072402/http://www.thefridaytimes.com/beta3/tft/article.php?issue=20121221&page=30 Quetta Sphinx (c1930)]thefridaytimes.com , archived. Photograph of the memorial known as the Quetta Sphinx for the Second Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment in respect of those who died in Baluchistan/Southern Afghanistan circa October 1880-January 1883. This memorial has now been destroyed.
*[http://tribune.com.pk/story/363609/mummy-dearest/ "‘Mum’my dearest!"] by Muhammad Adil Mulki April 15, 2012 tribune.com.pk
*Note about the [http://nq.oxfordjournals.org/content/CLXIII/oct29/312-a.extract Afghan War Cemetery at Quetta] by H Bullock, situated near the village of Kasi , two miles from Quetta. Contains men who died during the [[1st Afghan War]]. Lists four names and advises a large number of NCOs and men of the [[40th Regiment of Foot]] were buried here. ''Notes and Queries Volume CLXIII, Issue Oct 29 1932'',' page 312
*Photographs: [http://quetta-city.blogspot.de/2007/06/quetta-before-1935.html Quetta Before 1935 Earthquake] June 18, 2007 quetta-city.blogspot
*[http://balochistanarchives.gob.pk/other-resources Libraries and Collections In Balochistan] Balochistan Archives
*[http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2010/11/brewing-in-19th-century-india.html Brewing in 19th-century India] mentions the brewery at Quetta.
*[http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/archivaldocs/prg/PRG266_7_1-150_Gilbert_letters_transcript.pdf Letters written by Thomas Gilbert] to his parents and other family members, chiefly from India. State Library of South Australia. [http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:80/record=b2187028~S1 Catalogue link].
:Page 97, 6.5.18. 114 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps prepares to leave for Quetta, where it remained for six months.
*[https://www.bristolmuseums.org.uk/blog/come-fly-with-me-raf-india/ "Come fly with me: Early days of the RAF in India"] by Pat Ellingham March 22, 2019. bristolmuseums.org.uk. Information about the films made by Leonard de Ville Chisman late 1920s/1930s including on the North West Frontier. These films are now in the Bristol Museums Archives British Empire and Commonwealth Film collection/ Chisman (ref. [https://becc.bristol.gov.uk/records/2006/0052006/005]), . Currently (not currently available 2021/06) there are some digitised films viewable online), ref. [https://becc.bristol.gov. uk/records/2006/005/1 2006/005/1] but no digitised photographs, the latter seems to include “The sequence documenting Quetta both before and after the great earthquake of 1935 [which] are of particular interest.“
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