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*[http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=146500&mode=1 "Commonwealth War Graves in Poona"]
*[http://stmaryschurchpune.org/history.html St Mary’s Church Pune] includes [http://stmaryschurchpune.org/archives1.html Archives] with details of graves and memorials. This church is now part of the Church of North 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.
*[http://www.veritas.ie/Books/Social_Issues/General-j/The_Curious_Mind/9781847302007/details3.aspx An Indian Boyhood: Spike Milligan recalls growing up in India in the 1920s] (www.veritas) Scroll down half way. There is a brief mention of Poona and Rangoon in this [http://www.jazzprofessional.com/interviews/Spike%20Milligan.htm interview] , scroll down towards the end. An obituary from the [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/spike-milligan-729787.html Independent] refers briefly to his time in Poona and his father, a sergeant- major in the Royal Artillery.
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