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*This [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=161038&view=findpost&p=1561465 Great War Forum thread] advises the book ''A Strange War: Burma, India and Afghanistan 1914-1919'' by C P Mills 1988 describes experiences of Territorials in India during the Great War. The book is available at the [[British Library]]. The Regiment was the 2/5th Battalion of the [[13th Regiment of Foot|Somerset Light Infantry]]
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*[http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion, The London Regiment] was a Territorial Force Regiment whose 1st Battalion spent the war years in India including the North West Frontier. In 1917 they participated in the [[North West Frontier Campaigns|Waziristan Campaign]]. In 1919 they helped quell the [[Massacre at Amritsar|Amritsar uprising]], and participated in the [[3rd Afghan War]]. In 1917, 200 of the 1/25th left India and fought in [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]]. 25thlondon.com
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120204155938/http://www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/industrial/display.php?file=Military.txt&title=Military%20Trains Indian/South-Asian Industrial Locos: Military Trains] (irfca.com by Simon Darvill has a section (scroll down) on the [[British Library]] collection of Lance Corporal Howgego who served in India with the 1/25st Battalion, The London Regiment between 1916 and 1919. Includes a transcript of a 1917 letter to his mother regarding the flooding at [[Tank]]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20040407134248/http://home.clara.net/nhpendall/fpdiary.htm The Diary of Frederick Pendall], a member of the [[9th Regiment of Foot|Norfolk Regiment]] who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918 (archived website) This [http://www.nhpendall.webspace.virginmedia.com/page4.html link] contains a photograph and advises he was "Pte 26695 Norfolk Regiment 1916-1919"
*[http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no2/putkowski2.html Mutiny in India in 1919] by Julian Putkowski marxists.org By March 1919, the Territorials were disillusioned, and their increasingly bitter complaints featured in a series of anonymous letters that were published by the ''Bombay Chronicle''. As well as complaining generally about the corruption and snobbery they had experienced during their service in India, the correspondents drew attention to the slow pace at which they were being shipped back to Britain by the Army.
