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*This [http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php/19219-military-records-1914-1918?p=97225&viewfull=1#post97225 Forum thread] about the movements of the 2nd Garrison Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers in India also gives details of some other Regiments british-genealogy.com
*2/4 (Cumberland and Westmoreland) Battalion, Border Regiment sailed for India 4 March 1915 and was in India throughout the First World War [http://www.1914-1918.net/border.htm 1914-1918.net]
**[http://www.king-emperor.com/Photos-Frontier-Mohmand-a3.htm Photographs: Men of the 2/4 (Cumberland and Westmoreland) Battalion, Border Regiment constructing the Mohmand Blockade Line 1916-1917] king-emperor.com
*[http://www.1914-1918.net/eastsurreys.htm 1/5th Battalion and 1/6th Battalion East Surrey Regiment] were in India most of World War 1,embarking at Southampton on 29 October 1914, landing at Bombay 2 December 1914 from "The Long, Long Trail: The British Army in the Great War".
** FIBIS Gallery [http://www.gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/category/21 Collection of photographs] taken by and owned by Arthur Cecil Gregory who served in the 5th Bn. East Surrey Regiment in various parts of India during WW1.
*[http://www.1914-1918.net/msex.htm 1/9th Battalion and 1/10th Battalion Middlesex Regiment] Both battalions sailed 30 October 1914 from Southampton for India, arriving Bombay on 2 December 1914. The 1/9th Battalion eventually moved to Mesopotamia, arriving Basra on 24 November 1917, and joined the 53rd Brigade of the 18th Indian Division. It remained in that theatre until the end of the war.. The 1/10th Battalion remained in India until the end of the war. www.1914-1918.net
**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/58031268@N03 David Prebble’s Photostream]. flickr.com Some of the photographs are labeled “1/9th Middlesex Regiment India 1914 to 1920” and it very probable all the photographs are of this regiment, in England or India
*2/4 (Cumberland and Westmoreland) Battalion, Border Regiment sailed for India 4 March 1915 and was in India throughout the First World War [http://www.1914-1918.net/borderswb.htm 1914-1918.net]**[http://www.king-emperor.com1/Photos-Frontier-Mohmand-a3.htm Photographs: Men of the 2/4 (Cumberland and Westmoreland) 1st Brecknockshire Battalion, Border Regiment constructing South Wales Borderers
] arrived in Bombay 3 December 1914, almost immediately went to Aden, subsequently returned to India and remained in India throughout the Mohmand Blockade Line 1916-1917war, stationed at [[Mhow]] king. www.1914-emperor1918.comnet
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion, The London Regiment] was a Territorial Force Regiment whose 1st Battalion spent the war years in India including the North West Frontier. In 1917 they participated in the [[North West Frontier Campaigns|Waziristan Campaign]]. In 1919 they helped quell the [[Massacre at Amritsar|Amritsar uprising]], and participated in the [[3rd Afghan War]]. In 1917, 200 of the 1/25th left India and fought in [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]]. 25thlondon.com
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120204155938/http://www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/industrial/display.php?file=Military.txt&title=Military%20Trains Indian/South-Asian Industrial Locos: Military Trains] (irfca.com by Simon Darvill has a section (scroll down) on the [[British Library]] collection of Lance Corporal Howgego who served in India with the 1/25st Battalion, The London Regiment between 1916 and 1919. Includes a transcript of a 1917 letter to his mother regarding the flooding at [[Tank]]
