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===First World War===
====Regular Army Brigades====
[http://www.1914-1918.net/cra.htm The British artillery of 1914-1918] from "The Long, Long Trail The British Army in the Great War", which indicates there were some Regular Army Brigades in India throughout the War , examples being
*6 (Howitzer) Brigade (regular, VI (How))
:Comprising numbers 4, 38 and 78 Batteries RFA plus 68 and 84 Companies RGA and 104 Battery RGA and based at Rawalpindi, this brigade came under command of the 2nd (Rawalpindi) Division of the Indian Army. It remained in India throughout the war.
*[http://www.1914-1918.net/rfa_units_16.html XVI Brigade, RFA] A unit of Britain's pre-war regular army and comprising 89, 90 and 91 Batteries, this brigade came under command of the 1st (Peshawar) Division of the Indian Army and was based at Nowshera. It remained in India throughout the war, only leaving Nowshera for Rawalpindi in November 1918.
====Territorial Force troops====
*See [[British Army Territorial Force troops arriving in 1914]] for some of the Royal Field Artillery Batteries which arrived at the end of 1914.
=====2nd Kent Battery=====
*[http://www.dovergrammar.co.uk/archives/old-pharos/No-019.html Letter to his old school] from Sidney D. Igglesden 2nd Kent Battery, R.F.A. (T.), Jubbulpore. ''The Pharos. The Magazine of Dover County School, No. 19. July, 1915. Vol. VI''. Scroll down to “Letters from Old Boys”
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/sunnybrook100/4083822623/ Photograph: Driver J Goodwin 2nd Kent Battery RFA May 1916]. Probably/possibly in India. flickr.com
==See also==
