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*[http://www.andoverhgs.org.uk/ Andover Family History Group]
*[http://www.hgs-online.org.uk/ Hampshire Genealogical Society]
*[http://www.1914-1918.net/hants.htm The Hampshire Regiment] from The Long, Long Trail:The British Army in the Great War. There were Territorial Force battalions in India and Mesopotamia.
====Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ESBcAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA221 "Topographical Report on the District and Station of Ghazeepore, North-West Province, Bengal"] by JW Fleming, FRCS, Surgeon 37th Regiment, page 221 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1859'' (published 1861) Google Books
*[http://www.scribd.com/doc/17735398/Memoirs-of-the-Great-War ''Memoirs of the Great War''] by James Racine c 1920s. Scribd.com. Pages 70-101 cover his period in India as an officer with the 2/5th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment in Secunderabad c 1915-1916 until the Battalion was transferred to Egypt. [http://www.archive.org/details/memogw Pdf version] available from Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/mesopotamia00palmuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916''] from Robert Palmer 1916 Archive.org. He went with a draft from the 6th Hants, in India since November 1914, to reinforce the 4th Hants. Both these regiments were part of the Territorial Force. He was killed June 21, 1916, aged 27 years. The initial letters were written in India.{{#widget:Google PlusOne|size=small|count=true}}
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