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===Harrington Prayer Rooms===Harrington Prayer Rooms were set up in all the major cantonments for use as a 'Soldiers' Scripture Reading and Prayer Room'. <ref>JaneyH [https://web.archive.org/web/20140113234509/http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic10112.html “Mystery army photo - 1890s? India?”] Who Do You Think You Are? Forum 11 January 2014, archived.</ref>===Moustaches and beards===An Army Order was issued 6 October 1916 which meant that moustaches were no longer compulsory in the Army.<ref> Broomfield, Steven. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/243722-bye-bye-tache/ Bye, bye 'tache] ''Great War Forum'' 7 October 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2018. [http://majorpillinger.com/the-army-moustache-2 The Army Moustache] majorpillinger.com.</ref> Circa the WW1 period, beards were forbidden unless you were a Pioneer-Sergeant. Exceptions could be allowed for medical reasons, and the regulation did not apply to chaplains.<ref> Clifton, Ron. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/262007-beards-in-ww1/?do=findComment&comment=2654398 Beards in WW1.] ''Great War Forum'' 17 June 2018 and PhilB et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/51262-beards/ Beards] ''Great War Forum'' 22 April 2006. Retrieved 17 June 2018</ref>*[https://www.militaryheritage.com/hand-salute-army-history.htm "Why Palm Out? A History of the British Army '''Hand Salute"]''' by Robert Henderson. militaryheritage.com
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===Wives and families travelling to India===
For soldiers deployed from Britain to overseas garrisons only a proportion of men were allowed to be accompanied by their wives. For most countries the proportion was six wives per one hundred soldiers. However for India, and Australia, the ratio was twelve wives per one hundred men, including NCOs. The number of children was unlimited.<ref>Fuller, Tony [https://web.archive.org/web/20201031010929/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=12906952 Women on ships – again] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 11 August 2000, archived. (The author was researching at the Tower Hamlets Library).</ref> These wives and children were provided with food, accomodation and transportation by the Army and were classified as "on the strength". There are thought to be very few soldiers' wives in India who were "off the strength", however, for one marriage in India ([[76th Regiment of Foot|76th Regiment]]) see External links below. An 1870 Cork newspaper advertisement sought a passage to India for a soldier's wife.<ref>[https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/part-one-james-and-laura-mackie/ "James and Laura Mackie, Part 1"] Scroll down. thesocialhistorian.com</ref>
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*'''Harrington Prayer Rooms''' were set up in all the major cantonments for use as a 'Soldiers' Scripture Reading and Prayer Room'. <ref>JaneyH [https://web.archive.org/web/20140113234509/http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/forum/topic10112.html “Mystery army photo - 1890s? India?”] Who Do You Think You Are? Forum 11 January 2014, archived.</ref>
*'''Moustaches and beards'''. An Army Order was issued 6 October 1916 which meant that moustaches were no longer compulsory in the Army.<ref> Broomfield, Steven. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/243722-bye-bye-tache/ Bye, bye 'tache] ''Great War Forum'' 7 October 2016. Retrieved 23 May 2018. [http://majorpillinger.com/the-army-moustache-2 The Army Moustache] majorpillinger.com.</ref>
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