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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121123040839/http://www.pricewebhome.co.uk/Docs/Price/Colonial/Colonial_Boy.htm "Colonial Boy"] by John Alton Price, now an archived webpage. He was born in December 1923 in Simla, and lived there (or nearby) and then Delhi. He attended Bishop Cotton School from age 9, for 9 years, until he joined the Ordnance Corps in the Army.
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*[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.
*[http://www.krrcassociation.com/index.php/association/20-swift-bold-stories/139-goddard-childhood-memories-of-india "Childhood Memories of India"] by John Goddard, KRRC. 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.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
*[http://www.khyberlodge.co.uk/about-khyber-mainmenu-26/peshawar-remembered-mainmenu-43 .html "Peshawar Remembered"] by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army, and later the Pakistan Army. The recollections of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition. "Memories of Murree" also by Walter Reeve. Details of a visit to Murree in 1936 from the author’s father’s memoirs, and the author’s memory of visits in 1948 and 1949. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125548/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-06-11-2005/foo.htm Part 1], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125717/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-13-11-2005/foo.htm Part 2], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306062112/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-20-11-2005/foo.htm Part 3] Scroll down. jang.com.pk 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites.
*[http://janetmacleodtrotter.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/a-baby-in-india/ Photograph of “My mother being carried through foothills of Himalayas”] from photographs of Janet MacLeod Trotter [https://web.archive.org/web/20131117025917/http://janetmacleodtrotter.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/mum-being-carried-through-foothills-of-himalayas-copy.jpg Enlarged version] (archived)
===Historical books online===
*[http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.com/ Railways of the Raj] Exploring Railway Life in Anglo India
**[http://railwaysofraj.blogspot.com/2009/08/pam-and-antique-stove.html Pam and the antique stove]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120220013610/http://www.pricewebhome.co.uk/Docs/Price/Railways/Railways.htm Railway Colonies in India] by John Alton Price, now archived. Includes his time in Jamalpur with the Army in 1942. Some of the photographs from the article are available on flickr.com [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963247/in/photostream/ Railway Siding in Jamalpur], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963139/in/photostream/ Railway line past No 2 sub-depot], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963205/in/photostream/ Forest Camp near Jamalpur, Bihar], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3134780006/in/photostream/ Our Tent in the forest], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963283/in/photostream/ First locomotive on East Indian Railway], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3134784408/in/photostream/ Amunition valley - Jamalpur], [http://www.flickr.com/photos/30102602@N04/3133963343/in/photostream/ Sunday walk - hills near Jamalpur]
*[http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/railway/index.html ''Among the Railway Folk''] by Rudyard Kipling 1888. Web edition published by eBooks@Adelaide. Jamalpur E.I.R.
**Article [http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_railwayfolk_intro.htm Among the Railway Folk] from Kipling.org.uk
*[http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:AUXVkIWqoF4J:epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journalsojs/index.php/TfC/article/viewdownload/673/602 +%22Anglo+Indian%22+Railways&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjPtoyzxDCzJGtncS2bWDpFuS-I4aNWOtzZA-0G4dscxkpfqHkLrPU6UNzn88LNLw5uhjEfrhTSbQ_Pi27Al4Gx2l-3CKK8SoWl7MZnTxPgTiJ4zsweZnDCmf9s_R0Rr7VzXUF7&sig=AHIEtbRqAXoTs3mUO1IjVM_6VMwtQ4sc0w "Race, Railways and Domiciled Europeans"] by Deborah Nixon ''Transforming Cultures eJournal'', Vol 3, No 1 February 2008
*[http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/LifeinIndia/Ajmer_1933_1940(1).htm Ajmer 1933-40] Life in a railway colony from [http://www.gpmsdbaweb.com/memoir2/ An Indian Childhood] by Eugene Blanchette born 1933, from his website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120103153846/http://dustymuffin.wordpress.com/category/grandpas-story/ Grandpa’s Story]. Percy Morris joined the [[Madras and Southern Mahratta Railway]] (MSM) as an Assistant Locomotive Superintendent in 1925. He became Chief Mechanical Engineer, and later Director of the Railway Board, until he retired in 1955. Blog by his granddaughter of 1986 interviews in 15 parts. Scroll to the bottom for part 1 Indian service commences part 2.
