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1st Kumaon Rifles

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*1918 May - 1919 Apr. part of WO 95/4670 - 60 (London) Division <ref> [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C4557823 WO 95/4670 - 60 (London) Division]</ref> and
*1919 May - 1920 Mar. part of WO 95/4586 - 10 (Irish) Division<ref> [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C4557739 WO 95/4586 - 10 (Irish) Division]</ref>
 
In 1921 the regiment was stationed in Constantinople as guard to the Allied Headquarters.
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumaon_Regiment Kumaon Regiment] Wikipedia
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xLrTzZd0j1kC&pg=PA267 Page 267] ''Valour and Sacrifice: Famous Regiments of the Indian Army'' by Gautam Sharma Google Books
*[http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/a-moffatt/ 1979 Audio recording by Mrs Agnes Moffatt, wife of an officer 1st Kumaon Rifles] with [http://media.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/077a.pdf Typescript Part 1] and [http://media.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/077b.pdf Typescript Part 2] s-asian.cam.ac.uk. She first joined her husband in Constantinople in 1621.
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/271/mode/1up Page 271] ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha'' by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org. A brief reference to the raising of the 1st Battalion, 50th Kumaonis by Lt-Col E M Lang.
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