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*[http://www.horsepowermuseum.co.uk/museum.html Horsepower, the Museum of the King’s Royal Hussars]. Covers 10th and [[11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars|11th]] Hussars <br>
*[http://www.majorpillinger.com/index.php Major Roland Pillinger: A Soldier of the British Empire] Family website by Richard Pillinger. Major Pillinger joined the Tenth Royal (Prince of Wales Own) Hussars in Canterbury in 1879 and served until 1913 rising “ by sheer force of character from Private to Major and Quarter-Master”
**[http://www.majorpillinger.com/portfolio.php Photographspicture-gallery/ Picture Gallery] include "Rawal-Pindi 1910" and "India 1902-1912"**[http://www.majorpillinger.com/reg_hist.php regimental-history-1878-1906/ Regimental History 1878-1906] includes extracts from a regimental publication ''A Short History of the Xth P.O.W. Royal Hussars'' by Lieut-Colonel John Vaughan and Major Roland Pillinger including Chapter VII "The Afghan War"
**[http://www.majorpillinger.com/preface.php Preface] includes reference to, including a drawing of, a Memorial to the Soldiers of the Regiment lost in the Afghan Campaign in 1878-9. One Officer and 46 NCOs and men were drowned crossing the Cabul River and a further 38 men died of cholera on the way back to Rawal Pindi, when an outbreak set upon the Regiment in the Khyber Pass. There is some detail of the tragedy in the Cabul River and the cholera strike in ''A Short History''. The image of the Memorial is also displayed [[10th (The Prince of Wales's Own) Royal Hussars#Service in British India|above]] with all the names clearly visible.
**[http://majorpillinger.com/coronation-durbar/ The Coronation Durbar - Delhi December 1911]
*[http://www.garenewing.co.uk/angloafghanwar/articles/fordokabul.php Ford o' Kabul River The river disaster of the 10th Hussars 31 March 1879] by Garen Ewing garenewing.co.uk
*[http://www.horsepowermuseumHorsepowermuseum.co.uk/march2012highlight.html Ford o' Kabul River Museum of The King’s Royal Hussars] horsepowermuseum.co.uk
*[http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/afghan2.htm Memorials: Afghanistan 1878 - 1880: Cavalry Regiments] includes 10th Hussars deaths by drowning. From Stephen Lewis’ [http://www.angelfire.com/mp/memorials/memindz1.htm Soldiers Memorials]
*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1879/aug/07/questions-1 Hansard 07 August 1879] vol 249 cc391-2. A question regarding cholera deaths in the 10th Hussars
*[http://www.dnw.co.uk/medals/auctionarchive/searchcataloguearchive/itemdetail.lasso?itemid=33522 Colonel Manners C. Wood, 10th Hussars, commanding the Regiment 1892-96] Dix Noonan Webb. Details an attack in Afghanistan as reported in the ''Illustrated London News'', published on 17 May 1879.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/44841559@N03/6558344383/ Image: Player’s Cigarette Card: Officer, 10th Hussars 1878-1880] flickr.com
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Royal_Hussars King's Royal Hussars] Wikipedia
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