India - Dagshai

During the First World War, the Worcestershire Regiment had a base camp at Dagshai, which Cyril Sladden mentioned in a letter of 18th July 1916 as he thought he might be sent there on leaving Simla after two months’ recuperation. 

Dagshai is one of the oldest cantonment towns in the Solan district of Himachal Pradesh, situated on top of a 5689 feet high hillock beside the Kalka-Simla Highway.  It is on the Kalka-Simla railway line, 24 miles distant from Kalka.  It was founded in 1847 by the East India Company.  Today there is an army unit stationed, a residential Army Public School, a private school called Dagshai Public School and a very small civilian town.