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A lectern inside St. John's Church Jhelum the church commemorates the 35 soldiers of the 24th regiment of Foot killed during the mutiny. Among the dead was Captain Francis Spring, the eldest son of Colonel William Spring. St. John's Church is located in Jhelum Cantonment, now part of Pakistan, beside the river Jhelum. It was built in 1860 and ...
In addition, there are a number of good schools in the city of Jhelum and the neighborhood of the cantonment, including the Beaconhouse School Systems and The City School. Pakistan Military Academy major cadet feeding institute, Military College Jhelum, is located at a distance of 5 km at Sarai Alamgir.
The Battle of the Hydaspes also known as Battle of Jhelum, or First Battle of Jhelum, was fought between Alexander the Great and Porus in May of 326 BCE. It took place on the banks of the Hydaspes River in what is now the Punjab province of Pakistan, [ 17 ] as part of Alexander's Indian campaign .
The famous writer of Jhelum District Anjum Sultan Shahbaz records some stories of the name Jhelum in his book Tareekh-e-Jhelum as: [8] Many writers have different opinions about the name of Jhelum. One reason is that in ancient days Jhelum was known as Jalham. The word Jhelum is reportedly derived from the words Jal (pure water) and Ham (snow).
Jhelum (/ ˈ dʒ eɪ l ə m /; جِہْلَم; Urdu: [d͡ʒeɦˈləm]) is a city, located along the western bank of the Jhelum River, in Punjab, Pakistan.It is the 21st largest city in Punjab and 31st largest in Pakistan, by population.
Military College Jhelum is located in the town of Sarai Alamgir in the district of Gujrat on the east bank of River Jhelum.Due to its proximity to city of Jhelum and because Sarai Alamgir once part of Jhelum District till 2002, it is widely known as Military College Jhelum and is considered to be in the cantonment limit of Jhelum.
Mashhood Test Firing Range (MTFR) at Tilla Jogian is a military testing area and firing range located approximately 25 kilometres (16 mi) west of Jhelum, Punjab, Pakistan. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It was used by the Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) as a primary testbed for initial phase of its Ghauri program and now serves as the primary weapon test site ...
The Pakistan Army Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (EME) was formed as a separate maintenance arm into the Pakistan Army from the partition of the British Indian Army's Corps of EME— only twenty officers joining the arm.: 29–30 [7] It was the British officers in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) that provided the support and training to raise the corps to ...