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*[http://www.kingscollections.org/_assets/archiosgallery/57/2344.jpg Photograph of Indian troops [7 Indian Mounted <nowiki>[Mountain?]</nowiki> Artillery Bde with mules, waiting to embark transport ship at Alexandria, Egypt. No 2278. 1916] from a [http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/the-dardanelles-expedition#Gallery collection of official photographs of the Dardanelles Expedition, 1915-1916.] The Serving Soldier King’s College London
*[http://www.newrider.com/Library/How_it_Was/mules.html About Mules c 1937] Extracts from the ''Manual of Horsemastership, Equitation, and Animal Transport'' 1937 - Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office: London.
*Listen to the [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80011995 1991 interview with Francis William Geoffrey Turner] British officer served as brigade animal <nowiki>[mulesmule]</nowiki> transport officer with 111 Indian Infantry Bde during First and Second Chindit Expeditions in Burma, 1943-1944. Imperial War Museums.*[http://www14usaaf27tcs.chindit4mg.netcom/Mules.html The Stubborn but Courageous Mule] in Burma WW2 www.chindit14usaaf27tcs.4mg.com. ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:c7hXephqiqoJ:14usaaf27tcs.4mg.netcom/Mules.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)*[http://www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/WWII/mules_of_mars.htm The Mules of Mars] by 1st Lt. Don L. Thrapp, Q.M.C.''The Quartermaster Review'' May-June 1946. The Mars Task Force in Burma, 1944, USA Army. ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R7U3pTaegpAJ:www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil/WWII/mules_of_mars.htm+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)*[http://www.lrgaf.org/military/mules.htm Mules for China] by Captain John A. Rand. Some were selected from other elements of the Mars Task Force. ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:6qoeTxHri40J:www.lrgaf.org/military/mules.htm+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/army-obituaries/5845146/Major-Victor-Warren.html Obituary of Major Victor Warren] 16 Jul 2009 ''The Telegraph''. In 1943 he commanded an Indian mule company which journeyed by train from the foot of the Khyber Pass to Karachi, sailed to Iraq and then made a 600-mile march through northern Syria to Tripoli in Lebanon; finally, it landed in Italy in 1944 to play a vital role in supplying forward infantry units with ammunition and blankets at the battle of Monte Cassino.
*WW2Talk Forum [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/49469-mules thread] on mules, in Italy, where Sikh muleteers are mentioned, and Burma. (Images only available to [[Mailing lists#Military| logged in members ]] of WW2Talk Forum)
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