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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140226122557/https://www.spink.com//lot-description.aspx?id=100816 Medals of Major C.G. ´Micky´ Merton], November 25, 2010 spink.com, now an archived page. Mentions employees of the Burma Forest Service, the Bombay Burma Trading Corporation and Foucar Brothers, one of the large timber companies operating in Burma, who were recruited to the 'Z-Force', a WW2 joint Allied reconnaissance and sabotage unit, who became 'Johnnies'. It was decided to recruit volunteers who were prepared to go into Burma, hide themselves in selected areas, and report back any information that they could pick up. "All had a thorough knowledge of the jungle, its inhabitants, and their language; all were tough and used to living on their own far from civilization; and all possessed courage of outstanding quality".
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:[http://keralaarchaeology.blogspot.com/2016/07/wood-who-buried-in-woods.html "Wood Who Buried In Woods: Hugo Wood- 1870 to 1933"] Keralaarchaeology.com.
*Listen to the [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/florence-meiklejohn/ 1979 interview], with [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/078a.pdf transcript 1] and [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/078b.pdf transcript 2], with Florence Meiklejohn, wife of 'Mick' (W.), Indian Forestry Service Officer who tells what life was like for her accompanying him on his tours in Indian forests. 1920s-1940s. s-asian.cam.ac.uk
*[http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-08-19/pune/41424901_1_books-digitisation-process-entire-library "Forest department library to go online"] by Ananya Dutta, August 19, 2013 Times of India .The digital books will be available at [http://www.mahaforest.nic.in/index.php Maharashtra Forest Department]
===Historical books online===
