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*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_and_J_Inglis_No_193_Palitana_Troop_Ship.jpg Postcard: Palitana troopship leaving Bombay] Wikimedia Commons. Palitana sailed from Bombay on 23rd September 1899 carrying 2nd Bttn. Gordon Highlanders and this is probably that departure.<ref> dunnboer [http://www.angloboerwar.com/forum/11-research/9205-numbers-for-transport-ships?start=30#15587 Numbers for transport ships?] angloboerwar.com.</ref>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140726104656/http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/Troopships.html BI Troopships 1902 to 1922], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811103629/http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/Troopships2.html BI Troopships from 1923], now archived. merchantnavyofficers.com
*[http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Ships/HMTroopshipPlassy.html HM Troopship Plassy]. Sailed 1901 until scrapped in 1924, including the Indian Garrison rotation run. During the First World War she was converted for use as a hospital ship. roll-of-honour.com*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.pluspls.com/galleryship024.htm Troopship - HMT Dongola] Used for seasonal trooping from 1906 between England, India and Hong Kong. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. [http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/PO_Liners2.html#Dongola1905 Dongola 1905-1926] simplonpc.co.uk
*[http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Ships/HMHSGrantuallyCastle.html H.M.H.S. Grantually Castle] Prior to becoming a Hospital Ship during WW1, the Grantually Castle was used as a troopship, including a trip to India at the end of 1914, refer above.
*[http://www.the-weatherings.co.uk/pccship0457.htm HMT Neuralia - Troop Ship] the-weatherings.co.uk. Neuralia, built 1912, operated as a permanent troopship from 1925.<ref> A History of the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited , pages 17 and 62. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rakaia.co.uk%2Fdownloads%2Fbritish-india-history.pdf html version], [http://www.rakaia.co.uk/downloads/british-india-history.pdf pdf] rakaia.co.uk.</ref> The book ''Pick up your Parrots and Monkeys'' by William Pennington, see [[History reading list]], contains a chapter on the voyage to India on the Neuralia in the 1930s.
