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{{Places of Interest|title=Poona|name=Poona |link=https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=211401480495186034184.0004d2ca7085a745dbddd&msa=0&ll=18.508602,73.898249&spn=0.004115,0.004334}}
'''Poona''' is a city about 100km south-east of [[Bombay]] (now Mumbai), which was a popular social retreat for residents of Bombay as well as formerly the largest garrison town in the Deccan for the [[British Army]]. The British comedian, Spike Milligan, spent his childhood there (his father was in the [[Royal Artillery]]<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=-UIBNTzdi6oC&pg=PT16 "Chapter 1: Beginnings"] ''Milligan's Meaning of Life: An Autobiography of Sorts'' by Spike Milligan, edited by Norma Farnes. 2011. Google Books.</ref>). There was also another cantonment nearby, at [[Kirkee]].
Poona was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V20_171.gif Poona District] in the Central division of [[Bombay (Presidency)|Bombay Presidency]] during the British period. See [[Bombay Districts]]. It was an important junction where the metre gauge [[Southern Mahratta Railway]] met the broad gauge of the [[Great Indian Peninsula Railway]].
*The Free Church Mission for Girls Vernacular School est 1882 in Aditvar Peth
*The Bene-Israel Girls Vernacular School in Rastya Peth est 1882
*The 'posher' schools in Poona in the 1940s were considered to be: Protestant schools were Bishops School for boys and St Marys School for girls. Both these were adjacent to St Mary's Anglican Church; Catholic Schools were the Convent of Jesus and Mary for girls and St VIncents for boys. Both were adjacent to St Xaviers Church.<ref>Taylor. Rosemary.[https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/1315599/ Public schools in India] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 10 March 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2019.</ref>
==Hospitals==
*[http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/495 ''Deccan Queen: A Spatial Analysis of Poona in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries''] by Wayne Thomas Mullen. Sydney University Digital Theses 26 March 2006. A thesis which is “structured around the analysis of a model that describes the Cantonment, the Civil Lines, the Sadr Bazar and part of the Native City of the Western Indian settlement of Poona in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries”
*[http://www.punediary.com/html/churches.html "Churches"] ''punediary: churches''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190117002842/http://www.virtualpune.com/html/channel/status/christ/christ.shtml "Churches"] ''virtualpune: churches'', now an archived webpage.
*[http://www.cwgc.org/search/cemetery_details.aspx?cemetery=146500&mode=1 "Commonwealth War Graves in Poona"]
*St Mary’s Church Pune website includes [http://stmaryschurchpune.comin/history.html St Mary’s Church Pune/ History] includes and [http://stmaryschurchpune.comin/Archives.html archives Archives] with details of graves and memorials. This church is now part of the Church of North India.
*[http://www.smspune.com/?page_id=1157 St Mary’s School, Pune] Established in 1866, the School was run until 1977 by the Sisters of the Community of St. Mary the Virgin, an Anglican order based in Wantage, England. The abbreviation Sr C S M V was used. Also see [[Nurse#Religious Orders|Nurse-Religious Orders]] for brief details of this order.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101222021523/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] including Poona. (scroll down) (www.veritas) archive.org linksie archived webpage. His father was a sergeant in the British Army.:[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1386241/Spike-Milligan.html Spike Milligan [Obituary<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 28 February 2002 ''The Telegraph''.
*Wikipedia article [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapekar_brothers Chapekar brothers] gives details of the 1896-1897 bubonic plague epidemic in Poona, and the murder of W C Rand, I. C. S, Chairman of the Special Plague Committee
*[http://www.deccancollegepune.ac.in/museum_maratha_history.asp Maratha History Museum at the Deccan College, Pune]
