Mankote Barracks, Dalhousie

[ddycher]

Can anyone tell me anything about Mankote Barracks at Dalhousie ?

Regards

Dave

[MaureenE]

Hi Dave

There are links to a few images of Mankote on the FIBIS Fibiwiki page Dalhousie

http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Dalhousie

The barracks were probably built circa 1910, as a probable 1910 publication refers to “recently erected” barracks at Mankot

There are also a number of images of similar cantonments/camps, a number of which were just used in the summer months, on the FIBIS Fibiwiki page Murree

http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php?title=Murree

Cheers

Maureen

[ddycher]

Maureen

Many thanks I had not seen these.

Regards

Dave

[ddycher]

Six years on I have little more than when I first posted this. Anyone now any the wiser ?

 

regards

Dave

[MaureenE]

Dave, what information are you looking for?

 

Mankote seems to be in the vicinity of Dalhousie, which was a hill station, in the mountains, mainly used by the British in the summer, as a cooler relief  area  from the very hot cantonments on the plains, so I am assuming Mankote Barracks was at Mankote, rather than just the name of the Barracks.

During the winter, snow covered the ground.

 

Later photograph from Flickr.com https://www.flickr.com/photos/runninginsuffolk/22881906174

13 Platoon Mankote Barracks Dalhousie India 1930's  [internal view] probably related to the Leicestershire Regiment 

 

This image https://www.stamps-auction.com/show-lot-print.php?lot_id=168562 is titled Gun Parade, Balun, Dalhousie. In the background there is part of a building which I suspect is the 

barracks. I suspect a barracks at Mankote would have been a similar building.

Cheers
Maureen

 

[ddycher]

Thanks Maureen

 

Mankote was one of three barracks at Dalhousie. From written ref's men were dorm'd in bungalows (your picture from the 30's seems to show that was still the case then). But I have never really been able to track down much detail.

 

After a break I am back to trying to understand better the time detachments spent there in the summer breaks from the plains.

 

Regards

Dave

[MaureenE]

My understanding is that typically troops (all or part of a Regiment) would spent some, or all, of the period late April/early May to early October in the cooler mountains. I think generally each man would spend at least two months.

 

Cheers
Maureen

[ddycher]

Fits. Typically in my case the Devons had a detachment of 200 men at Dalhousie April to October. These were rotated as you say about every 8 weeks.

 

http://www.25thlondon.com/hpalbum/index.html

 

Best images I have of barrack / bungalows come from here.

 

Regards

Dave

Edited 21 July , 2018 by ddycher

[MaureenE]

Perhaps there may be something about the barracks in this online book, available as a download (but I haven't downloaded it)

Guide to Dalhousie Chamba and the inner mountains between Simla and Kashmir by John Hutchison 4th edition 1923 (First edition 1872, 2nd edition 1898, 3rd edition 1910) Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.

 

Cheers

Maureen