Sylhet Cantonment
সিলেট ক্যান্টেনমেন্ট image2=
Sylhet
TypeCantonment
Site information
Controlled by Bangladesh Army
Garrison information
Current
commander		Major General Mohammad Jahangir Alam

Sylhet Cantonment (Bengali: সিলেট ক্যান্টেনমেন্ট) is a cantonment located near Sylhet, Sylhet city in Bangladesh. The personnel of Bangladesh Army with local civilian inhabit here. It has an area of 924 acres.

History

During the Second World War, a jungle warfare school was set up at Comilla by the 14th Indian Infantry Division,[1] after the mid-1942 Allied retreat from Burma. The school emphasized techniques in six areas key to successful fighting in jungle terrain: outflanking, being outflanked, ambushing and other minor tactics, the myth of the impenetrable jungle, health, and fitness.[2] The school was transferred to Sevoke in 1943.[3]

In 1943-1944, military contractors constructing what was then called Mainamati Cantonment disturbed and damaged unsurveyed archaeological remains at the site.[4] Later the base was renamed Comilla Cantonment.[5]

During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, an Indian news magazine described it as "one of the best natural fortifications" in East Bengal because "the greater part of this cantonment is tunnelled into the hill and is impervious to aerial bombing".[6]

Bangladesh Military Academy was initially established at Comilla Cantonment on 11 January 1974 and later relocated at Bhatiary in 1976.[7]

Installations

Education

Hospital

See also

References

  1. ^ Marston, Daniel (2006). "Lost and Found in the Jungle: The Indian and British Army Jungle Warfare Doctrines for Burma, 1943-5, and the Malayan Emergency, 1948-60". In Strachan, Hew (ed.). Big Wars and Small Wars: The British Army and the Lessons of War in the Twentieth Century. Routledge. p. 88. ISBN 978-0415-36196-5.
  2. ^ Jeffreys, Alan (2005). The British Army in the Far East 1941-45. Oxford: Osprey. p. 39. ISBN 978-1-84176-790-1.
  3. ^ Jeffreys, Alan (2005). The British Army in the Far East 1941-45. Oxford: Osprey. p. 19. ISBN 978-1-84176-790-1.
  4. ^ Chakrabarti, Dilip K. (1992). Ancient Bangladesh, a Study of the Archaeologcial Sources. Oxford University Press. p. 27. ISBN 978-0-19-562879-1.
  5. ^ Khan, Rao Farman Ali (2017) [First published 1992]. How Pakistan Got Divided (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-19-940698-2.
  6. ^ "From Assam : Successful Air Strikes". Link. Vol. 14, no. 18. 12 December 1971. p. 26. ISSN 0459-469X.
  7. ^ "Bangladesh Military Academy (BMA)". Retrieved 2017-08-15.

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