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*[http://www.warlinks.com/memories/brown/life_on_a_troopship.php Life on a Troopship] A Pictorial History featuring the photographs of John Ernest Brown [[3rd Bengal (European) Light Infantry| Royal Sussex Regiment]]. He sailed to India in 1932, and returned in 1937, via Egypt (1935) and the Sudan (1936)
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/76/a8543676.shtml The King's Shilling — Part 2a – India] by Neil Walker .bbc.co.uk..Contains a mention of the Trooping season c 1937
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/03/a8777703.shtml Troopship to Bombay [1944<nowiki>]</nowiki>] from the 1944 diary of Sidney Greaves. He was a radar operator for the RAF bbc.co.uk
*"Death Of Territorials In India". House of Lords. Hansard [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1916/jul/25/death-of-territorials-in-india 25 July 1916] vol 22 cc911-6, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1916/aug/01/death-of-territorials-in-india 01 August 1916] vol 22 cc1037-42. "Karachi Troop Train Incident". House of Lords. Hansard [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/may/18/karachi-troop-train-incident 18 May 1920] vol 40 cc390-404, [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/jul/21/karachi-troop-train-incident 21 July 1920] vol 41 cc413-20. [http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1920/aug/10/karachi-troop-train-incident 10 August 1920] vol 41 cc1169-79
*[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3011881/ 'Perceptions of, and reactions to, environmental heat: a brief note on issues of concern in relation to occupational health"] by Delia Rizpah Hollowell ''Global Health Action'' December 29, 2010. (scroll down) Includes the statement “In 1884 Major-General MacGregor, Quarter Master General in India, wrote of the ‘risk incurred by the prolongation of the trooping season so far into the hot weather,’ arguing that the last British vessel should leave India no later than the 1st of April (14)". Footnote 14 states "14. MacGregor CM. Letter from Major-General Sir CM MacGregor, K.C.B., C.S.I., C.I.E., Quarter Master of India to the Secretary to the Government of India, Military (Marine) Department No. 3515-A. 1884 Indian troop service: general arrangements 1884–85. The British Library File No. 12861 IOR:L/MIL/7/10235".
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/apac/photocoll/a/019pho000000312u00003000.html Arrival of the "Tenasserim" at Rangoon on 8th Nov, 1885] Click to enlarge. British Library Online Gallery
*Troopships and the Regiment. [http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/troopships/ts001.shtml 1], [http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/troopships/ts003.shtml 2], [http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/troopships/ts004.shtml 3] queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_and_J_Inglis_No_193_Palitana_Troop_Ship.jpg Postcard: Palitana troopship leaving Bombay] Wikimedia Commons. Palitana sailed from Bombay on 23rd September 1899 carrying 2nd Bttn. Gordon Highlanders and this is probably that departure.<ref> dunnboer [http://www.angloboerwar.com/forum/11-research/9205-numbers-for-transport-ships?start=30#15587 Numbers for transport ships?] angloboerwar.com.</ref>
*[http://www.kingsownmuseum.plus.com/galleryship024.htm Troopship - HMT Dongola] Used for seasonal trooping from 1906 between England, India and Hong Kong. King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. [http://www.simplonpc.co.uk/PO_Liners2.html#Dongola1905 Dongola 1905-1926] simplonpc.co.uk
*[http://www.roll-of-honour.com/Ships/HMHSGrantuallyCastle.html H.M.H.S. Grantually Castle] Prior to becoming a Hospital Ship during WW1, the Grantually Castle was used as a troopship, including a trip to India at the end of 1914, refer above.
*[http://www.the-weatherings.co.uk/pccship0457.htm HMT Neuralia - Troop Ship] the-weatherings.co.uk. Neuralia, built 1912, operated as a permanent troopship from 1925.<ref> A History of the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited , pages 17 and 62. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rakaia.co.uk%2Fdownloads%2Fbritish-india-history.pdf html version], [http://www.rakaia.co.uk/downloads/british-india-history.pdf pdf] rakaia.co.uk.</ref>
*[http://transportsofdelight.smugmug.com/SHIPS/The-Royal-Navy/SUPPLY-SHIPS-AND-TRANSPORTS/25278036_5mNnFn/2290341600_sXphPfH#!i=2290341600&k=sXphPfH Photograph: HMT Nevasa - Troopship] Nevasa, built 1913, operated as a troop ship from 1925<ref>A History of the British India Steam Navigation Company Limited, page 62.</ref>
