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*[http://ww1.nam.ac.uk/stories/captain-newton-williams Captain Newton Williams, awarded the Military Cross] and the South Persia Rifles. Includes photographs. National Army Museum.
*[https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2019/01/the-shooting-of-the-british-consul-general-at-isfahan-and-sowar-chowdri-khan.html "The shooting of the British Consul General at Isfahan and Sowar Chowdri Khan"] 29 January 2019. British Library Untold lives blog. By the end of 1915, the situation in southern Persia had deteriorated so badly for the British that they decided they needed to raise ‘a force for the restoration of law and order’, the South Persia Rifles.
*[https://www.qrhmuseum.com/article-sergeant-e-a-dickerson-7h Sergeant E.A. Dickerson – 7H]. By 1916 Dickerson was a Sergeant in the 7th Hussars who were stationed in Meerut, India. He was a qualified instructor in musketry and the machine gun. In January 1917 he was seconded to the SPR as the British N.C.O. instructor in the 2nd Machine Gun Squadron of the Kerman Brigade. qrhmuseum.com
===Historical books online===
*See FIBIS Resources above for John Skinner memoirs.
*[https://archive.org/stream/persia005437mbp#page/n161/mode/2up "Persia and the Great War"] page 154 ''Persia'' by Brigadier- General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org. Includes information about the South Persia Rifles from page 158
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000147 ''Report on minor operations undertaken by the South Persia Rifles from the 28th March to the 25th June 1917''] British Library catalogue reference IOR/L/MIL/17/15/33, Qatar Digital Library. A despatch from Brigadier-General Sir Percy Sykes, Inspector General, South Persia Rifles, to the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, Simla, which provides details of five minor military operations undertaken against tribes in southern Persia. Five sketch maps appear at the end (ff 9-11).
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000146 ''Report by H. E. General Lord Rawlinson of Trent, Commander-in-Chief in India, on the Minor Military Operations undertaken by the South Persia Rifles from November 1919 to November 1921''] British Library catalogue reference IOR/L/MIL/17/15/32 Qatar Digital Library.
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