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'''Shwebo''' was the headquarters of the District of the same name in Upper Burma, situated in 22° 35' N. and 95° 42' E., on the Sagaing-Myitkyina railway, about sixty five miles north west by rail from Mandalay. It is located 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 at Shwebo.
==Also see==
*[[POW Camps in India]]
==Volunteer Regiment==
Shwebo was the head-quarters of a company of the [[Upper Burma Volunteer Rifle Corps|Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles]], drawn from the Shwebo, Katha, Bhamo, and Myitkyina Districts. <ref>''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 22, page 321</ref>
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwebo Shwebo] Wikipedia
*[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>
===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_328.gif "Shwebo Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 22, page 322
*[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
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Locations]]
[[Category:Burma]]
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 at Shwebo.
==Also see==
*[[POW Camps in India]]
==Volunteer Regiment==
Shwebo was the head-quarters of a company of the [[Upper Burma Volunteer Rifle Corps|Upper Burma Volunteer Rifles]], drawn from the Shwebo, Katha, Bhamo, and Myitkyina Districts. <ref>''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 22, page 321</ref>
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwebo Shwebo] Wikipedia
*[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>
===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_328.gif "Shwebo Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India'', Volume 22, page 322
*[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
== References ==
<references />
[[Category:Locations]]
[[Category:Burma]]
