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==Regimental flash==
The flash, also known as a pagri (puggaree) badge, or Foreign Service Helmet badge, was generally affixed to the pagri on the sun helmet. Based on the regimental nickname the Purple Pompadours, the flash was a tall strip of purple material.<ref> Bates, Stuart. [http://gmic.co.uk/topic/8447-wolseley-pattern-foreign-service-helmet/?do=findComment&comment=172664 Wolseley Pattern Foreign Service Helmet] ''GMIC Forum'' 30 Apr 2007. Retrieved 6 March 2016.</ref>
==Regimental journal==''The Essex Regiment Gazette'' commenced in 1909 and was suspended from 1914-1921.<ref>owen4256. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/115512-2nd-bn-essex-regiment/?do=findComment&comment=1103713 2nd Bn Essex Regiment] ''Great War Forum'' 23 January 2009. Retrieved 12 November 2019.</ref><br>The [[British Library]] holds copies from Vol. 7, no. 1 (July 1921) UIN: BLL01001096549
== External Links ==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/44th_(East_Essex)_Regiment_of_Foot 44th Foot] Wikipedia<br>
*[https://war-experience.org/lives/desmond-earley-lt-essex-regiment/ Desmond Earley - Lt. Essex Regiment] He fought the Japanese in Assam in 1944. [http://www.war-experience.org The Second World War Experience Centre]
==== Historical Books Online books online ====
*''Historical Record of the Forty - Fourth, or the East Essex Regiment of Foot'' by Thomas Carter 1864 [http://books.google.com/books?id=iGYVAAAAQAAJ Google Books]. Indian service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=iGYVAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA114 page 114] in 1822 in Calcutta
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historicalrecor01cartgoog#page/n12/mode/2up ''Historical Record of the Forty-Fourth, or the East Essex Regiment''] by Thomas Carter updated 2nd edition 1887 Archive.org
