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Jhansi Barracks, India
« on: Wednesday 08 February 17 15:58 GMT (UK) »
I'm trying to find the location in Jhansi of the British Army barracks where my wife's grandfather served with the Bedford Regiment in the early 1900s.

Several of his fellow soldiers are commemorated in St Martin's Church, Jhansi the location of which can be found on modern maps, so is that an indication of where the barracks were? Google maps have censored an area north of the church, although the satellite view shows a geometric pattern of houses which might have been/or is a military area.

I can't locate an old map of the area on the web. Can anyone help?

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Re: Jhansi Barracks, India
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 16:41 GMT (UK) »
Not too helpful first stab
 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rai2CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT37&lpg=PT37&dq=where+were+jhansi+barracks+in+India&source=bl&ots=Aqk_Bg4gZd&sig=fz26np7SlEtnE5AP2yAfVX-us8k&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj77JmG9YDSAhUS5mMKHbZCDlsQ6AEITTAI#v=onepage&q=where%20were%20jhansi%20barracks%20in%20India&f=false

suggesting it was some way from Jhansi.  An email to the Jhansi Cantonment Board in India may help if all else fails?*

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Re: Jhansi Barracks, India
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 18:22 GMT (UK) »
Hello MaxD

Thanks for the link to the book. Fascinating!

I wonder if it refers to the cantonment now known as Babina (British Army base in North Asia) where the Indian Army has been based since partition in 1947? Babina is some way from Jhansi, and separated from St Martin's Church by the famous fort.

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Bedfordshire: Albone, Brightman, Bowler, Hutchings, Islip, Johnson, Kidman,  Maynard, Pugh, Purser, Sharman, Thickpenny, Underwood, Young.
Devon: Banston, Blunt, Fisher, May, Parnell, Palmer, Rundle, Saunders.
Monmouthshire: Blunt

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Re: Jhansi Barracks, India
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 08 February 17 19:44 GMT (UK) »
This revolves around whether the camp in the 1900s is in the same place as the present day cantonment.  There is a CWGC cemetery there today http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/5001720/JHANSI%20CANTONMENT%20CEMETERY map under the tab.

Very useful site here http://www.fibis.org/  join??

Long winded way - 1900s Imperial Gazeteer of India http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/results.html search results on Jhansi

Just ideas from a bear of very little brain.

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Re: Jhansi Barracks, India
« Reply #4 on: Friday 10 February 17 14:04 GMT (UK) »
Thanks MaxD for the links.

An old posting on RootsWeb contains the names of over 100 names of Officers and Men commemorated on the memorials inside St Martin's Church, Jhansi from the WW1 period and a few years later which suggests it was in effect the garrison church.

Another 200 date from 1893-1908 and include the names of spouses and children. My understanding is that most would have died of enteric fever or heatstroke.

2nd Bn The Leicester Regt 1919-23 (29)
66th Bn R.F.A. 1902-1908 (31)
1st Bn Bedfordshire Regt 1902-1907 (92)
17th Infantry (The Loyal Regt) 1921 (1)
2nd Bn The Gloucester Regt 1919-1926 (41)
1Bn East Surrey Regt 1896-9 (86)
32 Batt R.F.A. 1899-1900 (4)
1st Cn Bn Royal Scots Fusiliers 1916-1918 (32)
1st Bn Royal Welch Fusiliers 1893, 1896 (37)

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/1999-02/0919332002

Thanks to original poster.

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Bedfordshire: Albone, Brightman, Bowler, Hutchings, Islip, Johnson, Kidman,  Maynard, Pugh, Purser, Sharman, Thickpenny, Underwood, Young.
Devon: Banston, Blunt, Fisher, May, Parnell, Palmer, Rundle, Saunders.
Monmouthshire: Blunt