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See the web page [https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records Requests for personal data and Service records] (gov.uk) for forms to download. [http://www.veterans-uk.info/service_records/service_records.html Veterans:UK] and and their fact sheet [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veterans-uk.info%2Fpdfs%2Fservice_records%2Farmy_pack.pdf Army Personnel Records And Family Interest Enquiries] (html docs.google version), [http://www.veterans-uk.info/pdfs/service_records/army_pack.pdf original pdf]([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Syq6wj5H2d0J:www.veterans-uk.info/pdfs/service_records/army_pack.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)
This WW2Talk Forum [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/47075-grandfather-ww2-rasc-burma-help-and-suggestions/?p=555463 post] advises "you want to get next of kin FULL records (make a note on the application for '''FULL''' records)".
This further WW2Talk Forum [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/49481-clarification-of-provision-of-death-certificate-service-records/?p=582017 post] advises “They will accept anything that is proof of death, even a undertakers receipt or a photograph of a post war civilian headstone”. However, you do not have to supply a death certificate when the date of birth of the individual was more than 116 years ago.<ref>"Veterans:UK" fact sheet [https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.veterans-uk.info%2Fpdfs%2Fservice_records%2Farmy_pack.pdf Army Personnel Records And Family Interest Enquiries] (html docs.google version), [http://www.veterans-uk.info/pdfs/service_records/army_pack.pdf original pdf]([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Syq6wj5H2d0J:www.veterans-uk.info/pdfs/service_records/army_pack.pdf+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)</ref>
WW2Talk Forum post [http://ww2talk.com/forums/topic/41567-ww2-soldier-research-tips-and-links-for-new-researchers WW2 Soldier Research - Tips and Links for New Researchers, dated 28 August 2012] advises about the next of kin hierarchy and that “There is currently about a 12 month wait to receive the records once you apply”.
*The life of a soldier in India in the early 1900s is discussed in this Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=6187#p24669 thread]. Includes reference to the book ''Old Soldier Sahib'' by Frank Richards, "an excellent read", which is about this period in India and Burma. First published in 1936, a reprint is available to purchase through Amazon.co.uk from the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/1843425580 FIBIS Shop]. Also available at the [[British Library]]. Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=7862&p=34986#p34937 thread] about a 2005 edition , annotated by Krijnen and Langley, with many footnotes and illustrations. "Each page is annotated to give information on Frank Richards’s friends, his officers, the places where he served in India and Burma, dates, events and the language, for example". Stated to be available at the [[British Library]] (although not in the catalogue).
*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]]
*Recruiting regions of Irish infantry regiments in the British Army from 1881 until 1922. A list of regiments, depots, counties together with a map. Select page 5 of this [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuigalway.ie%2Fgeography%2Fdocuments%2FHeritage-Chapter.pdf html docs.google version] or [http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/documents/Heritage-Chapter.pdf pdf]<ref>[[http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuigalway.ie%2Fgeography%2Fdocuments%2FHeritage-Chapter.pdf "A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness"] (html docs.google version) by John Morrissey, 2005 , Chapter 3 of ''Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity'' edited by M Mc Carthy 2005. Website: Geography Dept, National University of Ireland, Galway. [http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/documents/Heritage-Chapter.pdf original pdf]</ref>
*"Information Document on the Irish Regiments of the British Army up to 31st July 1922". Irish Military Archives Dublin [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gru7mwoB39wJ:www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Information_Document_on_the_Irish_Regiments_of_the_British_Army.pdf+East+India+Company+Army+Officer+transferred+to+British+Army&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgCmZns12hkE99NCTwYnZKxBIa4CjLHDnw00dDl-G-8dtP1fL8-uTOAW7hmuWptxLNBj6KyIKcTQks7CUK3bSgfr0dHI1OD9SJBPt_WF5uJfUQv6u4xXrgLdcVyfwHGhwNS1tiQ&sig=AHIEtbQcITGpWlwjYSS1F9kR0LlOKkmu4A html version], [http://www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Information_Document_on_the_Irish_Regiments_of_the_British_Army.pdf pdf version]
*[http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/index.html James Henry Miller], born 1910. He was in India October 1932-1935 with the [[2nd Bombay (European) Fusiliers|2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry]]. His memories of daily life in a regiment performing garrison duties. [http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/16.html His Story, His Words Part Four] (scroll down), [http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/17.html Part Five], [http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/18.html Part Six] Includes photographs. Family website. ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ndr41UqPklwJ:www.jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/16.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached 4], [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VUV_Dr2_RuQJ:jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/17.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au cached 5], [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LMQDwmoU1JYJ:jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/18.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au cached 6] URLs)
*[http://www.davidhorsfield.org.uk/index.asp ''From Semaphore to Satellite The memoirs of Major General David Horsfield, Royal Signals''] may be read online. He served in Burma during World War 2 and was then in India 1942-1946. ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9BDKXd8louQJ:www.davidhorsfield.org.uk/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)
*[http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hmvf.co.uk%2Fpdf%2FHORSE_TRANSPORT.pdf "British Army Horse Transport"] (html docs.google version) by Clive Elliott 2008 hmvf.co.uk [http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/HORSE_TRANSPORT.pdf original pdf]
*Military reasons for the expansion of the railways are explained in [http://www.essaysinhistory.com/articles/2011/5 "“Fire-Carriages” of the Raj: The Indian Railway and its Rapid Development in British India"] by Amit K. Sharma 2010<ref>[http://www.essaysinhistory.com/articles/2011/5 “Fire-Carriages” of the Raj: The Indian Railway and its Rapid Development in British India”] by Amit K. Sharma 2010 ''Essays In History. Annual Journal of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia''
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