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===Trek Out of Burma in 1942===
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485079 Koi-Hai website] **[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=477224#forgottenfrontierbygeoffreytyson ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, first published 1945, may be downloaded as a pdf from the Koi-Hai website. This book is about the Trek and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam assisting people from North Burma into India.
*[http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/trek-out-of-burma-1942.html Anglo-Burmese Library] - transcriptions and report. Also the list of internees.
*This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india/1999-09/0936457211 post] and this British Raj [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/india-british-raj/2006-09/1158028990 post] are about a young boy, whose family perished in the Trek Out of Burma, who was given into the care of some Gurkhas and raised as a Gurkha. He was subsequently [http://www.worldwar2burmadiaries.com/dudleychettritraced.html traced], but had died. The India List post mentions Red Cross records in Geneva, probably those of the [http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/index.jsp ICRC Archives]
*[http://www.rothwell.force9.co.uk/burmaweb/BAF.htm Burma Auxiliary Force] following separation of Burma from India in April 1937 rothwell.force9.co.uk
===Online Books===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=OHWMG4_nOQwC&pg=PA259 Shipwreck] of the Juno on the coast of Aracan in 1795 and [http://books.google.com/books?id=OHWMG4_nOQwC&pg=PA293 history] of Aracan. Google Books *[http://books.google.com/books?id=RWYRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Report on the Eastern Frontier of British India''] by Robert Boileau Pemberton 1835 Google Books
*''Travels in south-eastern Asia, embracing Hindustan, Malaya, Siam, and China: with notices of numerous missionary stations, and a full account of the Burman Empire; with dissertations, tables, etc'' by Howard Malcolm 2nd edition 1839 2 volumes in one. Book 2 with index follows page 276 of Book 1 [http://books.google.com/books?id=poRCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA9 Google Books].
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lIzSAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA219 "Notes on Arakan by the late Rev GS Comstock, American Baptist Missionary in that country 1834-1844"] from ''Journal of the American Oriental Society Volume 1, No 3 1847'', page 219 Google Books
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