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British Army Territorial Force troops in India
**[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"
*The "Karachi troop train incident" of the 5th June, 1916, resulted in the death of nineteen Territorial Troops due to heat stroke on a troop train between Karachi and Lahore. "Death Of Territorials In India". House of Lords. Hansard [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1916/jul/25/death-of-territorials-in-india 25 July 1916] vol 22 cc911-6, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1916/aug/01/death-of-territorials-in-india 01 August 1916] vol 22 cc1037-42. "Karachi Troop Train Incident". House of Lords. Hansard [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/may/18/karachi-troop-train-incident 18 May 1920] vol 40 cc390-404, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/jul/21/karachi-troop-train-incident 21 July 1920] vol 41 cc413-20. [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/aug/10/karachi-troop-train-incident 10 August 1920] vol 41 cc1169-79
*[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.
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