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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)

Also see Burma-Military
Carl Weidenburner’s 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 CBI Order of Battle: Lineages and History
Japanese conquest of Burma, December 1941-May 1942 historyofwar.org
WW2 Talk Forum has a category "Theatres of War: India and Burma"
Photographs taken in India 1943-44 by Major E Brookman flickr.com. He is stated to be a RAPC [Royal Army Pay Corps] officer
This India List post mentions Japanese air raids during World War 2, at Lillooah, a EIR colony near Calcutta and Calcutta.
Memories of Madras - The Summer of 1942 The Hindu 3 January 2012
Details of the book Pick up your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India by William Pennington 2003. Born 1920, he joined the Royal Horse Artillery aged 14 as a trumpeter and served in India c 1935-1939, and in Burma during World War 2. He was awarded the Military Cross. Look inside the book amazon.co.uk. Available at the British Library

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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 *This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2011-11/1322506489 post] mentions Japanese air raids during World War 2, at Lillooah, a EIR colony near Calcutta and Calcutta.
 *[http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2771785.ece Memories of Madras - The Summer of 1942] The Hindu 3 January 2012
+*[http://www.papertigers.org/reviews/China/asianReview/PickUp.html Details]  of the book ''Pick up your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India'' by William Pennington 2003. Born 1920, he joined the Royal Horse Artillery aged 14 as a trumpeter and served in India c 1935-1939, and in Burma during World War 2. He was awarded the Military Cross. [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pick-your-Parrots-Monkeys-Paperbacks/dp/0753817837#reader_0753817837 Look inside the book] amazon.co.uk. Available at the [[British Library]]
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