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"My maternal grandfather was in "G" Coy, 1st Bn [c 1900] and I tracked his movements - and involvement in sporting competitions - around the various cantonments in India, then Burma, via the accounts published in the regimental magazine, ''The Dragon''"<ref>[http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=5294#p19873 Thread] from Victorian Wars Forum</ref>
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*''Boy Soldier to Lancer: John Arnfield in the Anglo -Sikh Wars'' by Ainslie Sharpe ''FIBIS Journal Number 26 Autumn 2011'', pages 31-40 For details of how to access this article, see [[FIBIS Journals]]
:John Arnfield was born at sea in 1819. His father Hugh was in the [[59th Regiment of Foot|59th Foot]] which was in India 1820-1829. When that regiment returned to England in 1829, Hugh Arnfield transferred to the 3rd Regiment of Foot. John Arnfield enlisted in the Buffs, in India, as a Boy 16 November 1833 aged 14. He remained with the regiment in India, until he transferred to the [[16th Lancers]] 1 April 1840.
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