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*'''1931''' [[Meerut]]
*'''1935''' [[Barrackpore]]
The 1st Btn BW was stationed in India from September 1919, when they arrived at Allahabad until December 1936 which saw their departure from Barrackpore (after a stay which began October 1934). In between, short visitations were made to [[Quetta]] (November 1922), [[Multan]] (December 1925), [[Chakrata]] (March 1928), and [[Meerut]] (October 1930). The hill stations used by the BW between 1931-35 were: [[Ranikhet]] 1931 & 1932, [[Chakrata|Kailana]] 1933 & 1934. [[Mussoorie|Lebong]] 1935.<ref>chuckdonachie [http://blackwatchforums.co.uk/showthread.php?10744-INDIAN-HILL-STATIONS-VISITED-BY-THE-42ND-REGIMENT-1931-1935 Indian Hill Stations Visited by the 42nd Regiment 1931-1935] ''The Black Watch Forums'' 11th January 2011. The information was based on the ''Red Hackle'' Regimental Journal.Retrieved 24 January 2015</ref>
==Regimental Journal==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyof42ndroy00grovuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of the 42nd Royal Highlanders - "The Black Watch" now the first battalion "The Black Watch" (Royal Highlanders) 1729-1893''] by John Percy Groves 1893 Illustrated by Harry Payne. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/blackwatchrecord00forbuoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The "Black Watch": The Record of an Historic Regiment''] by Archibald Forbes 1896 Archive.org
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