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*[http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96. Mentions the heat fatalities of the [[24th Regiment of Foot|4/South Wales Borderers (Brecknockshire battalion)]]
*[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.
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/11226331@N05/sets/72157632248150623/ WO 374/20814 - service record of Horace Charles Druett] flickr.com.He applied for the India Army Reserve of Officers in October 1917 when he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion East Surrey Regiment. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/11226331@N05/8274622592/in/set-72157632248150623/ Application form]. He was seconded 21st December 1917 and was in India until the end of 1920, at least the latter part with the [[4th Regiment of Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|1/54 Sikhs FF]] at [[Jullundur]] flickr.com
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/kitchenersarmyte00walluoft#page/164/mode/2up/search/India ''Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces''] page 164 by Edgar Wallace 1915 Archive.org
