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:Issues 11 and 14. He joined the Army as a Boy Musician in 1932 aged 14 and went as part of a a draft to India leaving 4th February 1933 on the troopship HMT Dorsetshire, returning to England on the Dilwara arriving Southampton on 13th January 1938.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/76/a8543676.shtml The King's Shilling — Part 2a – India] by Neil Walker .bbc.co.uk./ww2peopleswar.Contains a mention of the Trooping season c 1937*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/03/a8777703.shtml Troopship to Bombay [1944<nowiki>]</nowiki>] from the 1944 diary of Sidney Greaves. He was a radar operator for the RAF . bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar.*"Voyage to India (1945)" by Des McDougall. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/24/a9001324.shtml Part 1], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/97/a9001397.shtml Part 2], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/86/a9001586.shtml Part 3], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/58/a9001658.shtml Final Stage] He was a British Officer Cadet, who travelled on the S.S. Otranto, whose destination was the Officers’ Training School, [[Bangalore]]. bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar.
*"Death Of Territorials In India". House of Lords. Hansard [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1916/jul/25/death-of-territorials-in-india 25 July 1916] vol 22 cc911-6, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1916/aug/01/death-of-territorials-in-india 01 August 1916] vol 22 cc1037-42. "Karachi Troop Train Incident". House of Lords. Hansard [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/may/18/karachi-troop-train-incident 18 May 1920] vol 40 cc390-404, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/jul/21/karachi-troop-train-incident 21 July 1920] vol 41 cc413-20. [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/aug/10/karachi-troop-train-incident 10 August 1920] vol 41 cc1169-79
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011881/ 'Perceptions of, and reactions to, environmental heat: a brief note on issues of concern in relation to occupational health"] by Delia Rizpah Hollowell ''Global Health Action'' December 29, 2010. (scroll down) Includes the statement “In 1884 Major-General MacGregor, Quarter Master General in India, wrote of the ‘risk incurred by the prolongation of the trooping season so far into the hot weather,’ arguing that the last British vessel should leave India no later than the 1st of April (14)". Footnote 14 states "14. MacGregor CM. Letter from Major-General Sir CM MacGregor, K.C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E., Quarter Master of India to the Secretary to the Government of India, Military (Marine) Department No. 3515-A. 1884 Indian troop service: general arrangements 1884–85. The British Library File No. 12861 IOR:L/MIL/7/10235".
