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*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/95/a5967895.shtml Belated award [wanted<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Ronald Rae, 2nd Battalion of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, who were engaged in internal defence duties and were then the first soldiers to leave India after independence. BBC’s WW2 People’s War.
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19470818&id=a2hAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j5QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3090,6345664 '"British Troops Leave"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' August 18, 1947 Google News
*[http://www.mid-day.com/photos/independence-day-special-reliving-history-in-pictures/5861/56226 Photograph: August 17, 1947, soldiers from The Royal Norfolk Regiment embark on the S.S. Georgic bound for Britain] on the quayside in Mumbai, the first British Army unit to leave Indian soil after the country achieved independence. mid-day.com. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxckDsWPko Video: British Troops Leave India 1947] British Pathe on YouTube . This video appears to be of the same troops as in the photograph although they are unnamed. They are however sailing on the 'Georgic.'
[[Category: British Army Infantry Regiments]]
