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<br> Available online, refer below.
Part of the United Kingdom Medical Series is the publication ''The Army Medical Services, Campaigns, Volume 5: Burma'', Crew, Francis A. E. London: HMSO, 1966. Available online, refer below.
==Medals==
*IWM catalogue entry with details of the service history of [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030012958 Lieutenant J Gordon Smith] platoon commander in the [[93rd Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders]] (12th Indian Infantry Brigade, 11th Indian Division) from (?) July 1941 in Singapore and Malaya, his eventual capture in late January, 1942 and his time in the camps on the Burma - Siam railway. His memoir is'' War Memories: A Medical Student In Malaya And Thailand'', available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01014657669 .
*[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/eric-lomax Eric Lomax obituary] (1919-2012) ''The Guardian'' 10 October 2012. A member of the [[Royal Signals]], he was in Singapore at the surrender and became a POW working on the Burma-Siam railway. His memoir is ''The Railway Man'', now also released as a movie of the same name.
*[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20211025024557/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10367891/Ron-Burton.html Obituary: Ron Burton] 09 October 2013 ''The Telegraph'', archived. He was Sergeant, 125 Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery (125 ATR), taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20140816000022/http://www.abc.net.au:80/4corners/specials/noprisoners/viewpoints/elphick.htm"Cover-ups and the Singapore Traitor Affair"] by Peter Elphick 28 November 2001, abc.net.au, now archived. Presented at the Fall of Singapore 60th Anniversary Conference National University of Singapore, 16-17 February 2002. Mentions one time member of the 16th Punjab Regiment, Captain Patrick Vaughan Heenan executed on Friday 13th February 1942, two days before Singapore surrendered, for being a traitor. ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission).
*[https://archive.org/details/historyofspecial1094534724 ''History of Special Operations Forces in Malaysia''] by Shamsul Afkar bin Abd Rahman. June 2013 Thesis, Master of Science in Defence Analysis from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. Includes chapters on WW2. Archive.org
===Borneo===
*''The Telegraph'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20121013085055/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9605570/Philip-Crosland.html Obituary of Philip Crosland] (1918-2012), archived. In October 1938 he joined ''The Statesman'' in Calcutta. He became a member of the [[Calcutta Light Horse]]. During World War 2 he accompanied the [[26th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|2nd Battalion 15th Punjab Regiment]] to Sarawak and other parts of Borneo from May 1941. He became a Japanese POW April 1942-September 1945.
*Klemen Lās [http://oocities.org/dutcheastindies/ Dutch East Indies 1941-1942], now oocities.org, from the archived [http://web.archive.org/web/20091026235840/http://geocities.com/dutcheastindies/ geocities .com website] includes
**[http://www.oocities.org/dutcheastindies/sarawak.html The Invasion of British Borneo in 1942]. There is brief mention of the 2/15 Punjab Regiment
