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===Trek Out of Burma in 1942===
*The full transcriptions by Mark Steevens of the IOR M8/57 files, ''Evacuees from Burma'', are available on this [http://groups.google.com/group/the-trek-out-of-burma-1942?pli=1 site].*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Burma.html Burma] from the website Koi-Hai website] *''Songs of The Survivors'', stories about the Goan community in Burma and the Trek. [http://booksgroups.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&pg=PA7 Page 7, the editors preface] Google Books, probably Limited View.*[http:group//shwepla.net/index.mv?which+France+/Books/Reviews5.mv Link] to book reviews for ''White Butterflies'' by Colin McPhedran published 2002 and ''Through the Jungle -trek-out-of Death - A Boy's Escape from Wartime burma-1942?hl=en-GB Trek Out of Burma'' by Stephen Brookes published 2000Google Group]
==Railways==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/civilservantinbu00whitiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''A civil servant in Burma''] by Sir Herbert Thirkell White, 1913 Archive.org
*[http://digital.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=sea;cc=sea;q1=Calcutta;rgn=title;view=toc;idno=sea289 ''Tourist guide and shopping list : where to go, what to see, where to shop in Calcutta and Burma''] 1920 Southeast Asia Visions
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023498458#page/n3/mode/2up [''Burma pictures]Pictures''] c 1920 Archive.org*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BRUOLFj1TXgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Songs of The Survivors''] Google Books. Stories about the Goan community in Burma and the Trek.
===Other===
*[http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/escape-from-burma-to-a-life-of-music-and-cuisine-20091023-hdaf.html Obituary] of Reuben Solomon, ] born Rangoon 1921, from the Sydney Morning Herald dated 24 October 2009*This Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_La_Salle_Brothers_in_Myanmar link] mentions former De La Salle Christian Brothers Schools in Burma.*[http://medlibrary.org/medwiki/Spike_Milligan#Biography Spike MilliganMyanmar],famous for the Goon Show, born in India, attended St Paul's De La Salle Christian Brothers School in Rangoon.*[http://shwepla.net/index.mv?which+France+/Books/Reviews5.mv Link] to a book review of ''Almost Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British Burma'' by Ruth Fredman Cernea 2007
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