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Marriage and children
*[http://www.royalengineers.ca/femnkid.html On the Strength: Wives and Children of the British Army], a Canadian website. Some of the information, particularly in respect of physical work performed, may not be applicable to India.
*[http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/home.html The Army Children Archive (TACA)] contains information about British Army children and wives, with themes such as [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/accomm.html Accomodation] and [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/move.html On the Move]. There are references to India in a number of the themes.
*"Childhood Memories of India" by John Goddard, KRRC [http://www.krrcassociation.com/swiftandbold/goddard_childhood_memories_of_india.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:MMl3vkZ-NqkJ:www.krrcassociation.com/swiftandbold/goddard_childhood_memories_of_india.pdf+%22John+Masters%22+North+west+Frontier&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiy1fvP-LEEwhGailssr6zpEUqmN03KXCGCB4okS_bzgV-wS0ClTHYfw7L4VwTxGfWGhMlIcc0qiC9YRuODTQtZqFmcOks8uw4k-OHAaE_7tD4iUmxLd-WOUYfe92Yv3TnD0eaq&sig=AHIEtbRykLwbYCSkn3KQOtqZfhMCBO7HBA html version] KRRC Association. The author was born in 1923 and lived most of the time until 1933 in India, in cantonments in Lucknow and Calcutta. His father was officers’ mess sergeant in a battalion of the King’s Royal Rifle Corps (the 60th Rifles)
*[http://www.farewellthewinterline.com/index.html ''Farewell the Winterline, Memories of a Boyhood in India''] by Stanley Elwood Brush, born 1925. His parents were American Baptist missionaries. He attended Woodstock School at [[Mussoorie]] in the Himalyan foothills
*[http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com
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