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Bengal Ambulance Corps

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==External links==
*[http://www.banglapedia.org/HT/B_0451.htm Bengal Ambulance Corps] by Muhammad Lutful Haque. Banglapedia. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
*Articles by Amitav Ghosh: Extracts from Sisir Sarbadhikari’s ''Abhi Le Baghdad'' (''On to Baghdad'') , which tells of his experiences in the Bengal Ambulance Corps (BAC) in Mesopotamia, and as a prisoner of war, who ended up in Northern Syria, after the fall of Kut, . “The reason the story has survived is that one of the Indian prisoners happened to write about his war experiences forty years later. His name was Sisir Sarbadhikari and his book ''Abhi Le Baghdad'' (''On To Baghdad'') appeared in 1958”
:The earlier part of the memoir, from joining up in Calcutta to the fall of Kut is described in [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=12 "On to Baghdad"]. Scroll to the bottom of the page for part 1
:"Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18". It is in 18 parts, in reverse order, consisting of two pages. Scroll to the bottom of [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23&paged=2 this page] for part 1. Scroll to the bottom of [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23 this page] to continue. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
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