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*The book ''In Memoriam Burma-Siam 1942-1945'', published in Bangkok in 1946 (Dutch language) in respect of Dutch war graves is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011257081 , and also at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah - [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/4286496 catalogue entry with details of contents].
:Also at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/1037473 catalogue entry] for ''[List of deceased World War Two-era Dutch military personnel in Burma and Siam]'', 1946, Dutch language, source Nederlandsch Hoofdkwartier Bangkok, Kantoor Personeele Zaken Afd. Inlichtingen Overledenen (Dutch Headquarters Bangkok, Office Personnel Affairs Dept. Information Deceased).
*Check the free online [[Singapore]] newspapers. 4 Bangkok deaths in 1906 were noted in one article,<ref>[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/easterndaily19060424-1.2.43.36?ST=1&AT=search&k=died%20Bangkok&QT=died,bangkok&oref=article ''Eastern Daily Mail and Straits Morning Advertiser'', 24 April 1906, Page 3] eresources.nlb.gov.sg</ref> also a 1915 death.<ref>[https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19150908-1.2.58 ''The Straits Times'', 8 September 1915, Page 10] eresources.nlb.gov.sg.</ref>
==External links==
*[http://bangkokcemetery.org Bangkok Protestant Cemetery] bangkokcemetery.org. Site currently under construction.
**[http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/siam-enter-first-world-war/ Why did Siam join the First World War?] by Pad Kumlertsakul 2 August 2017. Blog from The National Archives, England.
**[http://www.siamese-heritage.org/jsspdf/2001/JSS_096_0f_Whyte_InscriptionOnWW1VolunteersMemorialBangkok.pdf "The Inscriptions On The First World War Volunteers Memorial, Bangkok"] by Brendan and Suthida Whyte. ''Journal of the Siam Society'' 2008 Vol. 96 page 175-192. siamese-heritage.org
===Vietnam===
*See [[Second World War#French Indo-China|Second World War - External links- French Indo-China]]
===Maps===
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/4799219unorthu1945.html Bangkok, Town Plan (North)], [http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/4799219usouthu1945.html Bangkok, Town Plan (South)] 1945. War Office maps, British Library Online Gallery.
*[https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ#page/n323/mode/2up "The Management of the Dutch in India" page 309] ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India'' by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org. Contains a brief reference to Siam.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA51 "Siam"] page 51 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
*''Journal of a Voyage from India to Siam and Malacca in 1779'' by Dr J G Koenig. ''Journal Of The Straits Branch Of The Royal Asiatic Society'' No. 26, January 1894 and No.27, October 1894. Archive.org (in one digital volume). Translated from his manuscripts in German and Danish in nineteen volumes at the British Museum. Koenig came to India in 1768 where he acted as doctor to the Danish Missionaries at Tranquebar and afterwards was appointed Naturalist to the Nabob of Arcot.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280730/page/n259/mode/2up Pages 58-192 No.26 January 1894] which ends "Here ends the first part of Vol.2"; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280730/page/n393/mode/2up "Continuation Vol 13, from page 43"] pages 193-201, No.26 January 1894; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280730/page/n525/mode/2up Continuation Vol 2, from page 1] page 57-133 No.27, October 1894.
*[https://archive.org/details/viewofhindoostan3to4penn ''The View of India Extra Gangem, China, and Japan''] by Thomas Pennant 1800. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan3to4penn#page/n17/mode/2up Contents]. [https://archive.org/stream/viewofhindoostan3to4penn#page/n313/mode/2up Index]. Volume III in a series ''Outlines of the Globe'' but sometimes catalogued as Volume III in a series ''The View of Hindoostan''. Includes Siam.
*[https://archive.org/details/missiontosiaman01raffgoog ''The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the years 1821-2'']. From the journal of the late George Finlayson, Surgeon and Naturalist to the Mission. 1826 Archive.org . A Mission sent by the Governor General of Bengal.
*[https://www.wdl.org/en/item/11948/ ''Siam''] by Josiah Crosby, the British consul-general in Bangkok. HMSO 1920. Number 74 in a series of more than 160 studies prepared by the British Foreign Office as background information for British delegates at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. World Digital Library, Library of Congress.
*[https://archive.org/details/wherestrangetrai00powe/page/n9/mode/2up ''Where the strange trails go down; Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits settlements, Malay states, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China''] by E Alexander Powell 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.02352 ''From Golden Gate to Golden Sun: a record of travel, sport and observation in Siam and Malaya''] by Hermann Norden 1923. Archive.org, Ministry of Culture/National Library of India Collection. [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea015 Cornell University Library - Southeast Asia Visions] version which is a better quality scan.*[https://digitallibrepository.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/1639 ''Guide to Bangkok: with Notes on Siam''] by Major Erik Seidenfaden 1927. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". [https://archive.org/details/guide-bangkok-siam/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version] including [https://archive.org/details/guide-bangkok-siam/page/n13/mode/2up Plan of Greater Bangkok] and [https://archive.org/details/guide-bangkok-siam/page/n370/mode/1up Plan of Bangkok].
:[https://archive.org/stream/BangkokSiam1932/Bangkok_Siam_1930-150dpi_OCR_pdfA-2b#page/n3/mode/1up Third Edition 1932] With illustrations. Archive.org. Note, to view, select single page option, as the book has been scanned two original pages to one digital page.
*[https://digital.library.tu.ac.th/tu_dc/frontend/Info/item/dc:47755 ''Bangkok its life and sport, with some account of Siam's coastal and island game areas''] by C H Forty 1929. Thammasat University Library. Registration required.
*[http://myrepositori.pnm.gov.my/xmlui/handle/123456789/2724 ''Malayan Symphony : Being the Impressions Gathered During a Six Months' journey Through the Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, Siam, Sumatera, Java and Bali''] by William Robert Foran 1935. Pdf download, Repositori Digital, National Library of Malaysia. Probably sample pages only, and could be very few. Searchable, but not viewable, on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001255884 HathiTrust Digital Library]. [https://www.shakariconnection.com/w-robert-foran-books.html About the author] shakariconnection.com
*[https://archive.org/details/pepperriceelepha00rick ''Pepper, Rice, and Elephants : a Southeast Asian journey from Celebes to Siam''] by Ruth Masters Rickover 1975 Archive.org Lending Library
*[https://archive.org/details/oldbangkok0000smit/mode/2up ''Old Bangkok''] by Michael Smithies 1986 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/captiveongermanr00tray ''A Captive on a German Raider''] by F G Trayes 1918 Archive.org. The author, captured in September 1917, had been in government service for twenty years in Siam, and there is a brief mention of the decorations he had been awarded by the King of Siam page 104-105.
* Multiple editions of [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28%22Journal+Of+The+Siam+Society%22%29&sort=date ''Journal of the Siam Society''] from volume II 1905 to vol XXXI, 1939 (broken range), also vol XLVI, Parts 1-2 June-Nov 1958. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.26089/page/n3 Index Volume I to XXV ''Journal of the Siam Society''] 1935 Archive.org
:Also available online, where articles may be downloaded, from [http://www.siam-society.org/pub_JSS/jss_index_1904-1910.html The Siam Society] website. A complete series, currently to 2016. (Journals are placed online three years after being published).
====Vietnam====
*[https://archive.org/details/onoffdutyinannam00vassiala/page/n9/mode/2up ''On & Off Duty in Annam''] by Gabrielle M Vassal 1910. Archive.org. The author was an English woman married to a French Army doctor who was appointed in 1904 to the Pasteur Institute at Nhatrang, the “prettiest and healthiest spot in Annam” which was the European capital of the Province of Khanhoa, two days from Saigon by boat. The Institute conducted plague research and other bacteriological work, and the location was chosen for the availability of cattle and horses required for the research experiments.
:[https://archive.org/details/paper-doi-10_1038_084243a0/mode/2up 1910 review of the book] ''Nature August 25, 1910''. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b32168081/page/n5/mode/2up ''Indo-China B.R.510 Geographical Handbook Series''] Naval Intelligence Division, Admiralty (Great Britain) December 1943. Archive.org
*See [[Second World War#Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam|Second World War - Historical books online - Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaya, Dutch East Indies, Vietnam]]
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