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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
*[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2MlSwe-Ef2qOGNiNWMyN2EtZmQyMy00MmUzLWJmMDQtODUyYTQwNGNiNTMw/view?pli=1 The Anglo -Indian Force - WWI] angloburmeselibrary.com
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/148548 ''Britain’s Betrayal In India: The Story of the Anglo-Indian Community''] by Frank Anthony 1960. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Chapter VII "World Wars I and II", page 122, includes the Anglo Indian Battery.
=== Temporary Commissions & Indian Army Reserve of Officers 1917-1921 ===
**[http://kssarkaria.org/docs/Dagshai.pdf "The Forgotten Shaheeds of Dagshai"] by K. S. Sarkaria. Includes images of pages from relevant books concerning the Ghadar (Ghadr) Mutiny (Conspiracy) of 1915. kssarkaria.org
*[http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/tag/first-world-war/ Series of articles: India and the First World War] LSE South Asia Centre.[London School of Economics].
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080128211126/http://www.geocities.com/labour_corps/foreign.htm The Labour Corps 1917 – 1921: Foreign Labour] , now archived. Briefly mentions the labourers from India. Subsequently a book was published ''No Labour, No Battle: Military Labour During the First World War'' by John Starling and Ivor Lee.:[http://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/indian_labour_corps "Indian Labour Corps"] by Radhika Singha. encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net.:[http://hiddenhistorieswwi.ac.uk/uncategorized/2016/02/north-east-india-and-the-first-world-war/ "North East India and the First World War"] by Pratap Chhetri February 4, 2016. The Indian Labour Corps: Lushai Labour Corps, Khasi Labour Corps, Garo Labour Corps, Naga Labour Corps, Manipur Labour Corps and enlistments from Tripura. These men served on the Western Front, in Mesopotamia and in Egypt. "The Centre for Hidden Histories" [WW1]
*[http://www.france24.com/en/20140225-world-war-one-bengal-india-bangladesh-france "Remembering the Bengalis who fought for France in WWI"] by Stéphanie Trouillard 2014-02-25 france24.com
