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*18 Jan 1920 Disbanded in UK <ref>[http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php/19219-military-records-1914-1918?p=97225&viewfull=1#post97225 British-Genealogy.com Forum] keith 9351 accessed 18 Feb 2014</ref>
"Men of the 2nd Garrison Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers served in Mesopotamia from March 1917 until 1919. Whether this was the whole battalion, or elements of it, is not clear but the Battalion lost 179 men during the First World War and the majority died from sickness in Mesopotamia… It seems certain that all or part of the 2nd Garrison Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers arrived in Basra in late February or early March 1917. The deaths in Mesopotamia appeared to be from sickness including one from smallpox… The Garrison Battalion of the Northumberland Fusiliers appears to have remained in Mesopotamia until the winter of 1918/1919 as the last recorded death there was on January 4th 1919 at Amara. Amara was further North than Basra and was the headquarters from where the 13th Division started demobilisation in February 1919. The final death in the 2nd Garrison Battalion was recorded in India on March 21 1919. The 2nd Garrison Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers returned to England and was disbanded on January 8th 1920."<ref>Greveson, Alan. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160619035017/http://www.circlecity.co.uk/wartime/board/index.php?page=266 ''Alan Greveson's World War 1 Forum'']. Scroll down or use the Search, to Mike’s post dated 1st June 2010 and reply by Alan Greveson dated 2nd June 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2016.</ref>
The FIBIS database contains a reference to a memorial in Christ Church, [[Ahmednagar]] for the 2nd Garrison Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. “Officers, NCO's and men who died at Ahmednagar 1917 -1919. 42 names, the greater number had served in France, Belgium, Gallipoli or Mesopotamia during the war 1914-1918” <ref>FIBIS Database [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_detail.php?id=1389690 Group Memorials, Percy-Smith/Bullock Papers]. Individual names do not appear to be available.</ref> The Commonwealth War Graves Commission website lists 27 deaths at Ahmednagar, all NCOs and men<ref>[https://www.cwgc.org/find/find-war-dead/results/?cemetery=AHMEDNAGAR+GOVERNMENT+CEMETERY&casualtypagenumber=1&csort=regiment&tab=wardead Commonwealth War Graves Commission]. Retrieved 14 April 2019.</ref>
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EkEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 ''A short narrative of the Fifth Regiment of Foot : or Northumberland Fusiliers, with a chronological table and succession list of the officers, from 1st January, 1754, to 1st May, 1873''] by one who has spent many happy years in the regiment 1873. With five coloured plates. Google Books.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/northumberlandfu00woodrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''The Northumberland Fusiliers''] by Walter Wood (1901) Archive.org. Indian service commences [http://www.archive.org/stream/northumberlandfu00woodrich#page/112/mode/2up page 112] in 1857, and continues [http://www.archive.org/stream/northumberlandfu00woodrich#page/138/mode/2up page 138], in Afghanistan in 1878.
*[https://archive.org/details/historynorthumberlandfusiliers/page/n9/mode/2up ''A History of the Northumberland Fusiliers 1674-1902''] by H M Walker 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofsevenc00thor#page/n7/mode/2up ''Memories of Seven Campaigns: a record of thirty-five years' service in the Indian Medical Department in India, China, Egypt, and the Sudan''] by James Howard Thornton, Deputy Surgeon General, Indian Medical Service, late Principal Medical Officer Punjab Frontier Force. 1895 Archive.org. (The author was in the Bengal Medical Service 1856-1891). Chapters II-IV cover the Indian Mutiny period. During this time Thornton was attached to H M 5th Fusiliers, then [[90th Regiment of Foot|H M 90th Light Infantry]], then the [[1st Bengal (European) Fusiliers|1st European Bengal Fusiliers]].
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009368909 ''St. George's Gazette''. v.25 (1907)- v.42 (1924)] available to those in areas such as North America. Additional volumes for those who have University access. HathiTrust Digital Library.
