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The Tiger Kills. The story of the Indian Divisions in the North African campaign' by Lieut.-Colonel-W. G. Hingston and Lieut.-Colonel G. R. Stevens. Available at the British Library Also available as a reprint by Military Library Research Service Ltd (Jun 2004)

Obituary of Colonel Tony Hewitt www.telegraph.co.uk 17 Aug 2004 descibes the escape of three men in 1942 from a Japanese P.O.W. camp, following the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941, for which Anthony George Hewitt, and Captain Robert Douglas Scriven of the Indian Medical Service were awarded the Military Cross^[1]
Hong Kong War Diary : Hong Kong Defenders ,December 1941-August 1945 Includes Indian Army Units and Indian Medical Service
The Battle of Hong Kong 1941: A note on the literature and the effectiveness of the defence by Lawrence W C Lai, University of Hong Kong , Discussion paper series, July 2000 html version, original pdf

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 ==External links==
+===North Africa===
+*''The Tiger Kills. The story of the Indian Divisions in the North African campaign''' by Lieut.-Colonel-W. G. Hingston and Lieut.-Colonel G. R. Stevens. Available at the [[British Library]]  Also available as a [http://www.mlrsbooks.co.uk/bookstore/index.php/prod9.html?qry=Tiger reprint] by Military Library Research Service Ltd (Jun 2004)
+===China-Burma–India (CBI)===
+*Carl Weidenburner’s [http://cbi-theater.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater/menu/cbi_home.html China - Burma – India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II]. A 'portal' type site site with a large number of links.
+*Gary Goldblatt’s [http://www.cbi-history.com/ CBI Order of Battle: Lineages and History]
 ===Hong Kong===