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|coordinates=[https://www.google.com/maps/place/22°34'00.0%22N+95°42'00.0%22E/@22.566667,95.7,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d22.566667!4d95.7?hl=en 22.566667°N 95.7°E]
 
|coordinates=[https://www.google.com/maps/place/22°34'00.0%22N+95°42'00.0%22E/@22.566667,95.7,12z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d22.566667!4d95.7?hl=en 22.566667°N 95.7°E]
 
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==External links==
 
==External links==
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwebo Shwebo] Wikipedia
 
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwebo Shwebo] Wikipedia
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*[https://plus.google.com/photos/114540553936994679798/albums/5919592746965711777 Photograph collection: Dio Church, Shwebo] by sarthit medhasith Suksumret Google+Photos. From one of the photographs of a foundation stone, this church may have previously been All Saints Church.
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150529070358/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576061931702951172 Photograph: Hospital Shwebo with descriptions of different Ambulances, 1887 – 1897] by Felice Beato. Wall Street Journal, now an archived webpage. This photograph was included in an exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum <ref> [http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/beato/beato_checklist.pdf  Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road], photograph 114, exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum</ref>
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*[http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704723104576061931702951172 Photograph: Hospital Shwebo with Different Descriptions of Ambulances, 1887 – 1897] by Felice Beato. Wall Street Journal. This photograph was included in an exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum <ref> [http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/beato/beato_checklist.pdf  Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road], photograph 114, exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum</ref>
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*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.com/galleryaccommodation01.htm Photographs: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers: Colonial Buildings of the 19th Century] Scroll down for two photographs of Shwebo c 1906. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster
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*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/galleryaccommodation01.htm Photographs: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers: Colonial Buildings of the 19th Century] Scroll down for two photographs of Shwebo c 1906. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster
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:[http://www.kingsownmuseum.com/ko1318-13.htm Sketch Map of Cantonment, Shwebo,  Burma, 1906] from  Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster
  
 
===Historical books online===
 
===Historical books online===
 
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_317.gif "Shwebo District"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 22, page 311.
 
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_317.gif "Shwebo District"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 22, page 311.
 
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_328.gif "Shwebo Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 22, page 322
 
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V22_328.gif "Shwebo Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 22, page 322
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*''Burma Gazetteer: District'' Series. [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/17063 ''Shwebo District Vol A''] 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
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*''Burma Gazetteer: District'' Series. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.17063   ''Shwebo District Vol A''] 1929. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. A transcribed edition of a volume c 1924 is available from  [https://myanmar-law-library.org/law-library/legal-journal/burma-gazetter/shwebo-district-volume-a.html myanmar-law-library.org]
 
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282/#page/478/mode/1up "Shwebo"] page 326 ''Wanderings in Burma'' by George W Bird 1897. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University.
 
*[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282/#page/478/mode/1up "Shwebo"] page 326 ''Wanderings in Burma'' by George W Bird 1897. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University.
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/reportsonbritish00inteuoft#page/56/mode/2up "Camp for convalescents at Shwebo (Burma)"]  [for Turkish Prisoners of War, WW1], page 57 ''Reports on British prison-camps in India and Burma, visited by the International Red Cross Committee in February, March and April, 1917'' Archive.org
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/reportsonbritish00inteuoft#page/56/mode/2up "Camp for convalescents at Shwebo (Burma)"]  [for Turkish Prisoners of War, WW1], page 57 ''Reports on British prison-camps in India and Burma, visited by the International Red Cross Committee in February, March and April, 1917'' Archive.org
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Latest revision as of 06:34, 16 October 2020

Shwebo
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Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 22.566667°N 95.7°E
Altitude: 89 m (292 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Shwebo
State/Province: Sagaing Region
Country: Burma
Transport links
Burma Railway

Shwebo was the headquarters of the District of the same name in Upper Burma during the British period. It is located on the Sagaing-Myitkyina railway, about sixty five miles north west from Mandalay between the Irrawaddy and Mu rivers, 16½ miles west of Kyaukmyaung on the Irrawaddy. There was a cantonment, established in 1888, located to the north-east of the town on high ground.

The stone S.P.G. church was situated in the north-west.corner of the town, and the Roman Catholic church in the south-east corner.

During the First World War, there was a camp for Turkish Prisoners of War.

Churches

  • St Luke’s Shwebo 1887.[1] Church of England.
  • All Saints SPG Mission Church. Church of England. A stone church, probably constructed after 1899, following a fire which deserted almost all the mission buildings.[2]

Also see

Volunteer Regiment

Shwebo was the head-quarters of a company of the Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles, drawn from the Shwebo, Katha, Bhamo, and Myitkyina Districts. [3]

External links

Sketch Map of Cantonment, Shwebo, Burma, 1906 from Photo Gallery: Accommodation for Soldiers and Officers. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum, Lancaster

Historical books online

  • "Shwebo District" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 311.
  • "Shwebo Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 322
  • Burma Gazetteer: District Series. Shwebo District Vol A 1929. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. A transcribed edition of a volume c 1924 is available from myanmar-law-library.org
  • "Shwebo" page 326 Wanderings in Burma by George W Bird 1897. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University.
  • "Camp for convalescents at Shwebo (Burma)" [for Turkish Prisoners of War, WW1], page 57 Reports on British prison-camps in India and Burma, visited by the International Red Cross Committee in February, March and April, 1917 Archive.org

References

  1. ↑ Page 87 Wanderings in Burma by George W Bird 1897. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University
  2. ↑ Page 132 Christian Missions in Burma by W C B Purser, Missionary of Kemendine, Rangoon 1911 Archive.org
  3. ↑ Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 22, page 321
  4. ↑ Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road, photograph 114, exhibition at the J Paul Getty Museum

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