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During the First World War, there was a camp for Turkish Prisoners of War at Shwebo.
==Churches==
*St Luke’s Shwebo 1887.<ref>[http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/bookreader/sea:282/#page/113/mode/1up Page 87] ''Wanderings in Burma'' by George W Bird 1897. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University</ref> Church of England. This church was possibly the Cantonment Church, or the Cantonment Church may have been an additional church.
*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.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/christianmission00pursiala#page/132/mode/2up Page 132] ''Christian Missions in Burma'' by W C B Purser, Missionary of Kemendine, Rangoon 1911 Archive.org</ref>
==Also see==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwebo Shwebo] Wikipedia
*[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.
*[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>
*[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
===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.
