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*This link contains [http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/new_music/01.shtml Photographs of the Band 1/6th Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment TF, Agra, April 7th 1918 and also 1916] queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
*This link contains a [http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/new_music/07.shtml Photograph of the Band 1st Battalion, The East Surrey Regiment, Lahore 1932]. queensroyalsurreys.org.uk
*This [http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/21028-edwardian-bands-of-the-british-army link]<ref>[http://gmic.co.uk/index.php/topic/21028-edwardian-bands-of-the-british-army Edwardian ''Bands Of The British Army''] 20 August 2007 Gentleman's Military Interest Club</ref> refers to ''Bands of the British Army'' by W.J. Gordon, illustrated by F. Stansell. 1921. It mentions “it is particularly interesting in that it portrays all of the drum horses of the cavalry regiments as well as a representative selection of bandsmen from the Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers, the foot guards & the infantry of the line - in total, 68 figures”, which may be viewed in this [http://www.soldierssoldiers.com/sales_military_prints_section.php?section=BandsBritishArmy link]<ref> [http://www.soldierssoldiers.com/sales_military_prints_section.php?section=BandsBritishArmy Bands of the British Army] soldierssoldiers.com</ref>*On the night of 4th December 1874, the bandmaster of the 72nd Highlanders, stationed at Peshawar, was carried off by a party of raiders belonging to the Zakha Khel clan.<ref>Garen. [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=312 Kidnapped by the Afghans! 72nd Highlander 1874/75] The kidnap of the bandmaster. ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 8 May 2008. Retrieved 17 January 2018.</ref>
*[http://military-bands.co.uk/bands.html History of British Military Bands]. military-bands.co.uk is a site intending to present an online version of the 3 volume book ''History of British Military Bands'' by Gordon Turner & Alwyn W Turner (pub Spellmount 1994-97). Some regiments that saw service in India are already mentioned and it will be worth checking back from time to time as the undertaking progresses.
*"Every Day A Bonus" by Ken Clarke from ''Regimental Association of The Queen's Own Buffs (PWRR): The Journal'' issues No 11-14 Autumn 2005- Spring 2007. The pages covering the voyage to India in 1933, time in India, and voyage back to England in 1938 are (11)48-49; (12)29-39; (13)15-25; (14)38.
: [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-11-Autumn-2005.pdf Issue 11], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-12-Spring-2006.pdf 12], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-13-Autumn-2006.pdf 13], [http://thequeensownbuffs.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Journal-No-14-Spring-2007.pdf 14]
:Issues 11 and 14. He joined the Army as a Boy Musician in 1932 aged 14 and went as part of a a draft to India leaving 4th February 1933 on the troopship HMT Dorsetshire, returning to England on the Dilwara arriving Southampton on 13th January 1938.
:Issues 12-14. His time in India with the 1st Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, in Gough Barracks in the cantonment of [[Trimulgherry]], and time spent in [[Ootacamund|Wellington]] in the Nilgiri Hills. Issue 13 includes a move of the regiment to [[Karachi]], and his time playing in the band there. Issue 14 includes his time studying at the Royal Military School of Music.
*[http://www.ibew.org.uk/vbbp-oz.htm 8 photographs of the Calcutta Servicemen's Band, 1945] (scroll down to India) from “Vintage Brass Band Pictures - Other Countries” from [http://www.ibew.org.uk/ IBEW] (Internet Bandsman's Everything Within)
*[http://www.satiche.org.uk/vinbbp/phot1092.jpg Madras Infantry Band] no date. Either Madras Army or Indian Army. From IBEW, see link above.
