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In 1916 the Anglo-Indian Association was asked to raise a battalion of Anglo-Indian soldiers - an Anglo-Indian force; some of them served in Mesopotamia<ref>[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/hawesint.html "Christopher Hawes in Conversation with Glenn D'cruz"] in ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 3, Number 1, 1998.</ref>. By the September of 1917 the Anglo-Indian Force had drawn more than 950 men.[25]<ref>
[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/satoshi.html "Loyalty, Parity, and Social Control-The Competing Visions on the Creation of an ‘Eurasian’ Military Regiment in late British India"] by Satoshi Mizutani ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 10, No. 1, 2010, quoting
*[25] Anonymous (ed.), ''The Anglo-Indian Force, 1916'' (Allahabad, 1918), p.40. This book , by C T Robbie, is available in the India Office Records at the [[British Library]] [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_3-2&cid=1-1-1-3-33#1-1-1-3-33 IOR/L/MIL/17/5/4318]</ref>
The Anglo Indian Battery, an Artillery unit which was part of the Anglo Indian Force, served in [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]] and returned to India at the end of the war and was based at Trimulgherry. The Government of India decided the unit should be a permanent part of the forces, but it appears not to have survived the cuts of the post war slump
