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Charles Dixon, was in B Company based at Inkerman Barracks, Nasirabad. There is a photograph taken at [[Landi Kotal]] Fort, NWF. He was also based at [[Mount Abu]] Sanitorium in May 1918<ref>[https://sites.google.com/site/charlesgeorgedixon18961917/lest-we-forget-my-family-s-military-memorial/charles-dixon-1871-1918 Charles Dixon 1871- 1918]</ref> This was during the hot season when many troops were sent to [[Hill station|hill stations]].
A company is reported to have gone to Basra in Mesopotamia for work on Lines of Communication.<ref>[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918/essex-regiment/ Essex Regiment] longlongtrail.co.uk</ref>
==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 histories==
*''The Essex Regiment, 2nd Battalion (56th) (Pompadours)'' by John Wm. Burrows [1927] Series: Essex units in the War, 1914-1919 ; v. 2. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01009576056 . Also 2nd edition 1937. UIN: BLL01001096558
*''The Depot, 1st & 2nd Garrison, 3rd, 4th (Res), 12th, 14th, 18th, 19th & Training Res Bns, the Essex Regiment 1914-1921''. Series: Men of essex ; v. 6 The Essex Branch of the Western Front Association [2002?] Limited ed. of 50 numbered copies. Available at the BL UIN: BLL01009917819
*''The Essex Regiment, 1929-1950'' by Colonel T. A. Martin. 1952. Available at the BL UIN: BLL01001096547
==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==
**There were postcards of, or sent from several locations including Cawnpore, (see the [http://ba.e-pics.ethz.ch ETH-Bibliothek Zürich] website), [[Landi Kotal]], [[Nowshera]], [[Peshawar]] , and during the summer months [[Chakrata|Kailana]] in 1928 and [[Murree]] in 1930-31
====Historical Books Onlinebooks online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=y-ytBG_1lDoC ''Historical Record of the Fifty - Sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844''] 1844. Google Books. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=y-ytBG_1lDoC&pg=PA29 page 29] in 1805 in Bombay
