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<ref> Great War Forum [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=205407 post] 20 January 2013 by 'themonsstar'</ref>. A diary, including a description of the journey to India of a “unit of middle-aged and medically downgraded men”, and letters home may be found in ''1st Garrison Battalion The Manchester Regiment, India, Singapore, Hong Kong & Siberia'' by Robert Bonner
The April 1919 ''Indian Army List''<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284965/2015.284965.Indian-Army#page/n532/mode/1up ''Indian Army List'' April 1919, page 672]</ref> shows the following Garrison Battalions sent to India include the : 1st, 2nd and 3rd Garrison Battalions, [[Bedfordshire Regiment]]; 1st Garrison Battalions [[26th Regiment of Foot| Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)]], the [[15th Regiment of Foot|East Yorkshire Regiment]]; [[44th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Garrison Battalion, Essex Regiment]], the 1st Garrison Battalions [[92nd Regiment of Foot |1st Garrison Battalion, Gordon Highlanders]], the [[10th Regiment of Foot| Lincolnshire Regiment]], [[63rd Regiment of Foot|1st Garrison Battalion, Manchester Regiment]], the [[9th Regiment of Foot| Norfolk Regiment]]; [[5th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Garrison Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers]]; 1st Garrison Battalions [[43rd Regiment of Foot|Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]], the [[87th Regiment of Foot|1st Garrison BattalionRoyal Irish Fusiliers]], [[83rd Regiment of Foot|Royal Irish Rifles]], [[21st Regiment of Foot|Royal Scots Fusiliers]], the [[13th Regiment of Foot|1st Garrison Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry]] and the 1st Garrison Battalion, [[South Staffordshire Regiment]] and [[19th Regiment of Foot| Yorkshire Regiment]].
===Special Service Battalions===
