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*[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 War*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131208125116/http://www.britains-smallwars.com/India/Survey.htm In India: The Postwar Years 1945 to 1947] by former Sergeant Donald C. Thyer Royal Engineers Survey. "Sunset on the Raj" britains-smallwars.com/India, now archived. *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070819162745/http://britains-smallwars.com/India/HealthHazards.html "Health Hazards …Stationed in India"] by former Sergeant Donald C. Thyer, Royal Engineers Survey 1945-1947 britains-smallwars.com, now archived
*[http://www.reubique.com/IWT.htm Inland Water Transport and Docks] Reubique.com. The article mentions that this section of the Royal Engineers was founded in 1914 and was later responsible for alternate transportation during World War One in various theatres of war - including Mesopotamia where personnel from India and China were deployed.
**[http://www.auctiva.com/hostedimages/showimage.aspx?gid=1326121&image=675977719&images=675977719,675977580,675977468,675977370,675977166,675977062,675977270,675976963&formats=0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0&format=0 Image: Christmas Menu “No 3 and Furlough Coys, IWT , RE” Gaza Camp, Bangalore India, Christmas 1918]. auctiva.com. Retrieved 16 August 2014. IWT is presumably Inland Water Transport, but it is not otherwise known to have been in India.
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