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Calcutta Volunteer Battery

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*[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19161205.2.7.aspx "Calcutta Contingent. Splendid Services in East Africa Stirring Experiences"] ''The Straits Times'', 5 December 1916, Page 3 Newspapers SG
*[http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=FS19170224.2.30 "Seven Lions"] ''Feilding Star'', Volume XIII, Issue 3176, 24 February 1917, Page 4. Comments by a member of the Calcutta Volunteer Battery re East Africa. paperspast.natlib.govt.nz
*[http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-land/other-war-theatres/1072-indian-volunteers-in-the-great-war-east-african-campaign.html "Indian Volunteers in the Great War East African Campaign"] - by Harry Fecitt. Western Front Association.
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/188001/524201.html The 29th Punjabis in British East Africa: September to December 1914] by Harry Fecitt. Harry’s Africa kaiserscross.com. Contains a brief reference to the Cossipore Artillery Volunteers (Calcutta Volunteer Battery)
*CWGC record: [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1422800/PACEY,%20F%20A Pacey, F A] Died between 04/08/1914 and 31/12/1914 Indian Defence Force Artillery Calcutta Bty.1st (Calcutta Port Defence) Group. Nairobi British And Indian Memorial
*CWGC record: [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/122673/DAWSON,%20W Dawson, W] Indian Defence Force Artillery, Calcutta Volunteer Bty. Moshi Cemetery Tanzania. Date of Death: 10/04/1916
*CWGC record: [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/1660103/THOMAS,%20C%20H Thomas, C H] Indian Defence Force Artillery 1st (Calcutta Port Defence) Group Garrison Artillery Basra Memorial Date of Death: 06/06/1916
*CWGC record: [http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/634326/ McGrogan, John Strain] Died 07/01/1917. Royal Field Artillery Calcutta Volunteer Artillery Bty. Baghdad (North Gate) War Cemetery. The documents attached to the record show McGrogan died at Angora (Ankara) [Turkey], so he appears to have been a Prisoner of War, possibly captured in Mesopotamia, possibly at the fall of Kut. See [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)]].
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