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*[http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/trek-out-of-burma-1942.html Anglo-Burmese Library] - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
*''Exodus from Burma, 1941-42''; a Memoir by Captain Nadir S. Tyabji [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30&paged=2 Parts 1 and 2] , scroll down for Part 1, [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=30 Parts 3-12] in reverse order, scroll to the bottom for Part 3. amitavghosh.com. The author was appointed as Assistant to the Agent of the Government of India in Burma, and was subsequently in charge of arrangements for the refugees, predominantly Indian, trekking out of Burma.
*[http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-elephant-man The Elephant Man] is about the rescue of refugees by Gyles Mackrell , an Assam tea planter. He mounted an operation to save refugees who were trapped by flooded rivers at the border with India using the only means available to get them across - elephants. Includes YouTube film clip from the Centre website of South Asian Studies, Cambridge*[http://contentdmUniversity.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH40,67293 ''The story of Sam and Marg Acomb''] The War period commences page 28. In 1941 the author escaped from Thailand to Rangoon where he joined the Army in Burma Reserve of Officers. In 1942 he trekked for three weeks out of Burma to India. Subsequently he was assigned as Intelligence Officer in Dibrugahr Assam, Deolali, Ceylon and Bangkok(1944) until he was discharged in August 1946. BYU Digital Collections
*Listen to a [http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9661000/9661140.stm radio interview] with Felicity Goodall, author of ''Exodus Burma''. news.bbc.co.uk. Today,Tuesday, 13 December 2011. [http://felicitygoodall.wordpress.com/books/exodus-burma Details] of ''Exodus Burma, the British Escape Through the Jungles of Death 1942'' by Felicity Goodall 2011.
*[http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/at-a-glance/main-section/tales_of_wartime_courage_revealed_1_4126179 Tales of wartime courage revealed] Yorkshire Post Wednesday 11 January 2012
