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*[http://www.britishempire.co.uk/forces/armyunits/britishinfantry/24thfoot.htm 24th Regiment of Foot] www.britishempire.co.uk<br />
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Wales_Borderers South Wales Borderers] Wikipedia<br>
*[http://www.royalwelsh.org.uk/regimental-museum-of-the-royal-welsh.shtml The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh (Brecon)] royalwelsh.org.uk includes [http://www.royalwelsh.org.uk/regiment/history-regiment-timeline.htm historical timeline] linking to the regiment's various deployments. Covers [[23rd Regiment of Foot|23rd]], 24th, [[41st Regiment of Foot|41st]] and [[69th Regiment of Foot|69th Regiments of Foot]].**An annotated copy of the South Wales Borderers 7th Battalion’s war diary, covering the period from September 1915 to October 1919 in [[Salonika|Macedonia]] is available from The Regimental Museum of The Royal Welsh.<ref>The Regimental Museum Of The Royal Welsh [https://www.facebook.com/royal.welsh.museum/photos/a.1307568786018263/1793839937391143/?type=3&theater Facebook post 14 September 2018] facebook.com/royal.welsh.museum</ref> (Brief details would appear in ''The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918'' by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931, and available at the British Library in a reprint edition UIN: BLL01009164174, and online on a pay website, see below.)**[https://www.neverforgetyourwelshheroes.org.uk Never Forget Your Welsh Heroes] a campaign of the Friends of the Royal Welsh Regimental Museum to digitise letters and diaries of Welsh soldiers.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071007120108/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/024SWB.htm The South Wales Borderers] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071020112456/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/024-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071020111739/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/024-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site.<br>
*First World War
**[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/regiments-and-corps/the-british-infantry-regiments-of-1914-1918.net/swb.htm south-wales-borderers/ 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers
], a Battalion of the Territorial Force, arrived in Bombay 3 December 1914, almost immediately went to Aden, subsequently returned to India and remained in India throughout the war, stationed at [[Mhow]] wwwlonglongtrail.1914-1918co.netuk
***[http://www.flickr.com/photos/rugby_pioneers/3255635108/in/gallery-23268776@N03-72157639070529513/ Photograph: Winners of the All India (Calcutta) Rugby Challenge Cup 1917] flickr.com
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040827/http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96, now archived. Mentions the Territorial Force 4/South Wales Borderers (Brecknockshire Battalion) where there were deaths from heatstroke. This is possibly an alternative name for the 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion which served in Aden.
*[http://readinggivesmewings.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/the-arracan-expedition-andaman-islands-1867 The Arracan Expedition, Andaman Islands 1867] A detachment of 3 officers and 100 men of the 2nd Battalion, 24th Regiment of Foot was dispatched from Rangoon on the steamship Arracan to rescue crew members of the ship Assam Valley who had been captured. As a result 5 Victoria Cross awards were made. readinggivesmewings.wordpress.com
*"The Troops in Burmah" ''British Medical Journal'' October 9, 1886, page 703. Sickness and Death. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov%2Fpmc%2Farticles%2FPMC2257545%2Fpdf%2Fbrmedj04747-0041.pdf html version], [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2257545/pdf/brmedj04747-0041.pdf pdf]
*[http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/stories/m_everett.htm An Indian Pilgrimage
] by Martin Everett. rorkesdriftvc.com. Appears to be written 2003 or earlier, as there is an [https://web. archive.org/web/20030801025128/http://rorkesdriftvc.com/stories/m_everett.htm archived version] from this date. This article describes
**A Regimental Memorial, located in the old cantonment cemetery at Allahabad, dedicated to those soldiers and families of the 24th Regiment who died of fever at [[Ranikhet]] and [[Allahabad]] from 1889 to 1891.
**Headstones in the old cantonment cemetery near [[Mhow]] railway station relating to some twenty deaths from Spanish ‘flu in September 1918 of men from the Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/commentariesonpu00lawr#page/128/mode/2up "The Second Advance of the 24th Foot at Chillianwalla"], page 128 ''Commentaries on the Punjab Campaign, 1848-49. Including some additions to the history of the Second Sikh War, from original sources'' by J H Lawrence-Archer 1878 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/soldiersshikartr00mainiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''A Soldier's Shikar Trips''] by Brigadier- General H. G. Mainwaring late South Wales Borderers (24th Regiment) 1920 Archive.org
*''The History of the South Wales Borderers 1914 -1918'' by C.T.Atkinson, originally published 1931 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-south-wales-borderers-1914-1918/ ''History of the South Wales Borderers 1914- 1918''] by C T Atkinson, originally published 1931. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which is in turn available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19XLg-ecJX ''The History of the South Wales Borderers''] located in World WarII/Military Books/Britain/Scroll to letter T.
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