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*[http://www.1914-1918.net/yorks.htm 1st Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment] was in India during the First World War. The Long, Long Trail: The British Army in the Great War
*The [[21st Hussars|21st Lancers]] were in India on the [[North West Frontier Campaigns| North West Frontier]] during the war period
 
==Indian Army troops in India==
Indian Army troops were involved in actions on the [[North West Frontier Campaigns|North West Frontier]].
 
One officer's service may be seen in the webpages Capt G T Gill in [[First World War#External links|External links, below]]
==POW Camps in India==
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/india_wwone_01.shtml India and the Western Front ]Article by Dr David Omissi on BBC History website.
*[http://www.awm.gov.au/journal/j36/nurses.asp Reading between unwritten lines: Australian Army nurses in India, 1916-19] by Ruth Rae Australian War Memorial website. Describes the 34th Welsh General Hospital (34 WGH) at [[Deolali]]
*[http://gillww1.wordpress.com/gt-gill/ Capt G T Gill] George Theodore Gill from David Gill’s gillww1. [http://gillww1.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/gtg-commission1.jpg Image of Commission in 1915 as an Officer in the Indian Army Reserve]
**[http://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/01/gtg-on-the-north-west-frontier-1915 GTG on the North West Frontier 1915], [http://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/26th-gurkha-rifles-in-mesopotamia-1916/ 2/6th Gurkha Rifles in Mesopotamia 1916], [http://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/school-of-instruction-for-officers-sabathu-ambala-1917-to-1918 School of Instruction for Officers, Sabathu & Ambala, 1917 to 1919]
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