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*[http://www.voyagetoindia.co.uk Voyage to India: Memoirs of the 1st/3rd Kent Battery 1914] Frank William Critchley was 22 years old and a sergeant in the 1st/3rd Kent Battery, Royal Artillery. He travelled to India on the troopship Grantully Castle which departed Southampton 29 Oct 1914 and arrived Bombay 2 December 1914. One board were: Artillery 450. [[East Surrey Regiment|East Surreys]] 400. [[50th Regiment of Foot|4th Queens]] 800. voyagetoindia.co.uk
*The Diary of Sergeant Ben Nicholas 1914 to 1917. [[53rd Regiment of Foot|4th (Service Battalion) Kings Shropshire Light Infantry]]. "A record of his exploits in India, Burma, Singapore and Malaysia during World War One". Includes the [[5th Regiment of Bengal (Light) Infantry|1915 Singapore Mutiny]]. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwulfrunianinlondon.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F01%2Fthe-diary-of-ben-nicholas-1915-to-19174.pdf html version] [http://wulfrunianinlondon.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/the-diary-of-ben-nicholas-1915-to-19174.pdf pdf] wulfrunianinlondon.files
*[https://greatwarlondon.wordpress.com/tag2014/rifle09/05/deg-quelch-far-from-brigadeflanders/ DEG Quelch, far from Flanders] He was in the 18th (London) Battalion of the [[Rifle Brigade]], based at Table Island, where there was a wireless station, near the Cocos Islands. "Great War London"
*[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]]. (British Library catalogue entry [http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_2&cid=80#80 Sgt Reginald Mortimer Howgego: Mss Eur C340 1914-1920])
