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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
The Indian Air Force in the Second World War bharat-rakshak.com
- In the Skies of Calcutta : A tribute to Maurice Pring by Joydeep Sircar . Details the bombing of Calcutta in December 1942
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
Joseph Robert Milner describes his time in India and Burma performing primarily clerical duties c 1945 to 1947. He was drafted for India page 19 of this document. His time in India and Burma is described in this document ronbaileyscarvings.com
The Telegraph Obituary of Major-General Derek Horsford (1917-2007). He was promoted to command the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha Rifles in 1944 at Kohima in the Burma campaign.

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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 *[http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2771785.ece Memories of Madras - The Summer of 1942] The Hindu 3 January 2012
 * Joseph Robert Milner describes his time in India and Burma performing primarily clerical duties c 1945 to 1947. He was drafted for India [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:tPRVSEAwqwUJ:ronbaileyscarvings.com/armylife2.doc+Army+Life+Chapter+4+India+ronbaileyscarvings.com&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShRovvyXCRlJz_fbALslMs9BHOM6yDsoClDFDTYkzem35FrFssOC-MNo6Jq87RG1U71g8m5oEOvAyuc3f3vZ4dUerfY2u9XLj_vIyVxB9Vvp-og7KrkqT7IHtKQ_ht9DFSY65hL&sig=AHIEtbSXY3Fg2wviY-df4wVRrOZl7hF1dg page 19] of this document. His time in India and Burma is described in this [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:KFT6z10X6pwJ:ronbaileyscarvings.com/armylife3.doc+Turkish+POWs+Deolali&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiSh0z7TSq6ps1Not2Bjig1XpLgiaT_jqmyQ1Gdxy7txbH0G2B-kj5T7gEqdfOpWPzLkfBBxLrFzdcbNjgnJp9Rx06W5C6obtKIAwlpF0K_wRFbETqG4Qd--AKma_n9WBb10Zr9&sig=AHIEtbRpAlapu5pvt9s3TWgqsgLf4zs88g document] [http://ronbaileyscarvings.com/milner.htm ronbaileyscarvings.com]
+*''The Telegraph'' [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/gurkha-obituaries/1565768/Major-General-Derek-Horsford.html  Obituary of Major-General Derek Horsford] (1917-2007).  He was promoted to command the 4th Battalion 1st Gurkha Rifles in 1944 at Kohima in the Burma campaign.
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