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→Trek Out of Burma in 1942
Following the Japanese bombing in 1942, half a million refugees attempted to walk to India. Many died.
*[http://www.koi-hai.com/Default.aspx?id=485079 Koi-Hai website]
**Some sample pages from [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 may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.The book is about the Trek escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting people the refugees from North 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]
