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*This [http://www.british-genealogy.com/forums/showthread.php/19219-military-records-1914-1918?p=97225&viewfull=1#post97225 Forum thread] about the movements of the 2nd Garrison Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers in India also gives details of some other Regiments british-genealogy.com
*[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.
*This [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=161038&view=findpost&p=1561465 Great War Forum thread] advises the book ''A Strange War: Burma, India and Afghanistan 1914-1919'' by C P Mills 1988 describes experiences of Territorials in India during the Great War. The book is available at the [[British Library]]. The Regiment was the 2/5th Battalion of the [[13th Regiment of Foot|Somerset Light Infantry]]
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20040407134248/http://home.clara.net/nhpendall/fpdiary.htm The Diary of Frederick Pendall], a member of the [[9th Regiment of Foot|Norfolk Regiment]] who was in Belgaum from March 1917 to March 1918 (archived website) This [http://www.nhpendall.webspace.virginmedia.com/page4.html link] contains a photograph and advises he was "Pte 26695 Norfolk Regiment 1916-1919"
*[http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol8/no2/putkowski2.html Mutiny in India in 1919] by Julian Putkowski marxists.org By March 1919,the Territorials were disillusioned, and their increasingly bitter complaints featured in a series of anonymous letters that were published by the ''Bombay Chronicle''. As well as complaining generally about the corruption and snobbery they had experienced during their service in India, the correspondents drew attention to the slow pace at which they were being shipped back to Britain by the Army.
====Historical books online====
*[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 [[37th Regiment of Foot|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, ([[37th Regiment of Foot|Hampshire Regiment]]) 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.
==Regular British Army troops in India==
