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First World War

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**[http://www.flickr.com/photos/58031268@N03 David Prebble’s Photostream]. flickr.com Some of the photographs are labeled “1/9th Middlesex Regiment India 1914 to 1920” and it very probable all the photographs are of this regiment, in England or India
*[http://www.1914-1918.net/swb.htm 1/1st Brecknockshire Battalion, South Wales Borderers
] arrived in Bombay 3 December 1914, almost immediately went to Aden, subsequently returned to India and remained in India throughout the war, stationed at [[Mhow]]. www.1914-1918.net
*[https://greatwarlondon.wordpress.com/tag/rifle-brigade/ DEG Quelch, far from Flanders] He was in the 18th (London) Battalion of the [[Rifle Brigade]], based at Table Island, where there was a wireless station, near the Cocos Islands. "Great War London"
*[http://www.25thlondon.com/index.htm 25th County of London Cyclist Battalion, The London Regiment] was a Territorial Force Regiment whose 1st Battalion spent the war years in India including the North West Frontier. In 1917 they participated in the [[North West Frontier Campaigns|Waziristan Campaign]]. In 1919 they helped quell the [[Massacre at Amritsar|Amritsar uprising]], and participated in the [[3rd Afghan War]]. In 1917, 200 of the 1/25th left India and fought in [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]]. 25thlondon.com
**[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]]. (British Library catalogue entry [http://apps.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_2&cid=80#80 Sgt Reginald Mortimer Howgego: Mss Eur C340 1914-1920])
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