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==External links==
*[http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Bengal_Ambulance_Corps Bengal Ambulance Corps] by Muhammad Lutful Haque. Banglapedia (National Encyclopaedia of Bangladesh)
*Articles by Amitav Ghosh: Extracts from Sisir Sarbadhikari’s ''Abhi Le Baghdad'' (''On to Baghdad'') , which tells of his experiences in the Bengal Ambulance Corps (BAC) in Mesopotamia, and as a prisoner of war, who ended up in Northern Syria, after the fall of Kut. “The reason the story has survived is that one of the Indian prisoners happened to write about his war experiences forty years later. His name was Sisir Sarbadhikari and his book ''Abhi Le Baghdad'' (''On To Baghdad'') appeared in 1958”
:The earlier part of the memoir, from joining up in Calcutta to the fall of Kut is described in [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=12 "On to Baghdad"]. Scroll to the bottom of the page for part 1
