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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120204155938/http://www.irfca.org/docs/locolists/industrial/display.php?file=Military.txt&title=Military%20Trains Indian/South-Asian Industrial Locos: Military Trains] (irfca.com by Simon Darvill has a section (scroll down) on the [[British Library]] collection of Lance Corporal Howgego who served in India with the 1/25st Battalion, The London Regiment between 1916 and 1919. Includes a transcript of a 1917 letter to his mother regarding the flooding at [[Tank]]
*[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.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96. Mentions the heat fatalities of the [[24th Regiment of Foot|4/South Wales Borderers (Brecknockshire battalion)]]
*[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.archive.org/stream/kitchenersarmyte00walluoft#page/164/mode/2up/search/India ''Kitchener's Army and the Territorial Forces''] page 164 by Edgar Wallace 1915 Archive.org
One officer's service may be seen in the webpages Capt G T Gill in "External links" at the bottom of this page.
 
===Aden===
*[http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96. Includes brief mention of [[26th Light Cavalry| 26/ King George's Own Light Cavalry]], [[7th Rajput Regiment |7/Rajputs]], [[9th Gurkha Rifles |9/Gurkhas]], [[23rd Punjab Pioneers| 23/Sikh Pioneers]], [[1st Regiment of Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force| 51/Sikhs]],[[2nd Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 62/Punjabis]], [[15th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 75/Carnatics]], [[108th Infantry|108/Infantry]], [[109th Infantry| 109/(Indian) Infantry]] , [[126th Baluchistan Infantry |126/Baluchistans]]
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