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**[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.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]]
*This [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=161038&view=findpost&p=1561465 Great War Forum thread] advises the book ''A Strange War: Burma, India and Afghanistan 1914-1919'' by C P Mills 1988 describes experiences of Territorials in India during the Great War. The book is available at the [[British Library]]. The Regiment was the 2/5th Battalion of the [[13th Regiment of Foot|Somerset Light Infantry]]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20040407134248/http://home.clara.net/nhpendall/fpdiary.htm The Diary of Frederick Pendall], a member of the [[9th Regiment of Foot|Norfolk Regiment]] who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918 (archived website) This [http://www.nhpendall.webspace.virginmedia.com/page4.html link] contains a photograph and advises he was "Pte 26695 Norfolk Regiment 1916-1919"
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