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*From the [http://www.newman-family-tree.net/ Main Index of "A Newman Family Tree"], select H E M Newman. He was commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers on 19 December 1919 and posted to India in 1924 as an officer of the Madras Sappers and Miners. He was in India until 1929 and again in India and Burma 1936-1943. The site includes his [http://www.newman-family-tree.net/H.E.M.Newman-memoirs%202c.pdf Memoirs] (152 pages pdf), the article [http://www.newman-family-tree.net/RE_Journal_1984.pdf Waziristan 1937-1939] ( 9 page pdf) by Lieut Colonel H E M Newman ''The Royal Engineer Journal Volume 95, number 2, 1984'' and this [http://www.newman-family-tree.net/Missing-Years.html html extract] which covers parts of the period 1918-1946. The two latter links are included in the Memoirs.
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7325117.stm Why Britons walked warily in Waziristan] by Alastair Lawson 21 April 2008 news.bbc.co.uk with [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7325243.stm photographs] In 1919, a young British army officer, Francis Stockdale, was deployed to Waziristan. He was a temporary R. E. officer and served late 1919 to Dec 1921<ref>[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96799&#entry907698 Great War Forum]</ref>
*"Marching on to Laffan's Plain" by Alan Shaw , the experiences as an officer of the Corps of Royal Engineers `"The Sappers", first in the UK, then for nearly four years with the imperial Indian Army in Central India, Ceylon and the Burma campaign. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/64/a3198864.shtml Chapter 3] At the very end of this chapter, the author received orders to proceed to India or Burma. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/00/a3209500.shtml Ch 4] Arrived in India May 1942, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/38/a3220138.shtml Ch 5], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/15/a3222415.shtml Ch 6], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/50/a3224350.shtml Ch 7], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/29/a3225629.shtml Ch 8], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/34/a3260134.shtml Ch 9] , [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/60/a3260260.shtml Ch 10], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/30/a3260530.shtml Ch 11], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/11/a3264211.shtml Ch 12], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/15/a3269315.shtml Ch 13], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/67/a3269667.shtml Ch 14] [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/ BBC's WW2 People’s War]*"The War Diary Of A Royal Engineer With The Forgotten Army". Staff-Sergeant George Philip Benbow (Phil) Vaughan in India and Burma. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/15/a6955815.shtml Part 1: 13 March 1943 to 31 July 1944], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/69/a6990069.shtml Part 2: 1 August 1944 to 1 June 1946] BBC’s WW2 People’s War
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historycorpsroy01portgoog#page/n9/mode/1up ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers Vol I''] by Maj-Gen Whitworth Porter 1889 Archive.org<br />
