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 Bangladesh Liberation War, 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]
^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. ISBN978-0415-36196-5.
^Jeffreys, Alan (2005). The British Army in the Far East 1941-45. Oxford: Osprey. p. 39. ISBN978-1-84176-790-1.
^Jeffreys, Alan (2005). The British Army in the Far East 1941-45. Oxford: Osprey. p. 19. ISBN978-1-84176-790-1.