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*First World War regimental diaries of the Indian Infantry units deployed to the Western Front are available online to download via The National Archives's [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/ First World War 100] portal.<ref> [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/962.htm Indian infantry unit war diaries go online] The National Archives</ref> At September 2014, 171 were available. They are not personal diaries. See TNA’s [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/war-diaries-ww1.htm British Army war diaries 1914-1922] for more details about this type of record. Searching is free, but there may be a charge to download documents.
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/india_wwone_01.shtml India and the Western Front] Article by Dr David Omissi on BBC History website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151029054959/http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/stories/khudadad-khan-ghulam-haider-hollebke-east-africa.php Khudadad Khan and Ghulam Haider of the 129th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Baluchis] cwgc.org, now an archived webpage. For his remarkable courage, at the village of Hollebeke, near Ypres in Belgium. Khudadad Khan was the first Indian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross. cwgc.org
*[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/feb/21/found-translation-indias-first-world-war "The last post: letters home to India during the first world war"] by Daljit Nagra 21 February 2014. ''The Guardian''. [http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/untoldlives/2015/09/letters-from-indian-soldiers-26-september-1915.html "Letters from Indian Soldiers, 26 September 1915"] 26 September 2015. British Library Untold lives blog. [http://www.generalist.org.uk/blog/2012/letters-from-the-west/ Letters from the West] Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. generalist.org.uk.
:[http://www.nam.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-lectures/video-archive/illiterate-literary-censored-correspondence-indian-soldiers- Video and transcript: "Illiterate but Literary: The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-18"] by Dr David Omissi, recorded on 2 November 2015 nam.ac.uk, including YouTube video.
