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*Joseph Robert Milner describes his time in India and Burma performing primarily clerical duties c 1945 to 1947. His story is available as downloads from [http://ronbaileyscarvings.com/milner.htm ronbaileyscarvings.com]. He was drafted for India page 19 of Chapter 3. His time in India and Burma is described in Chapter 4.
→China-Burma-India (CBI)
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/ WW2 People’s War] "An archive of World War Two memories-written by the public, gathered by the BBC" includes categories [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1270/ India] and [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/categories/c1240/ Burma] www.bbc.co.uk
**"Marching on to Laffan's Plain" by Alan Shaw , the experiences as an officer of the Corps of Royal Engineers `"The Sappers", first in the UK, then for nearly four years with the imperial Indian Army in Central India, Ceylon and the Burma campaign. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/64/a3198864.shtml Chapter 3] At the very end of this chapter, the author received orders to proceed to India or Burma. [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/00/a3209500.shtml Ch 4] Arrived in India May 1942, [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/38/a3220138.shtml Ch 5], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/15/a3222415.shtml Ch 6], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/50/a3224350.shtml Ch 7], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/29/a3225629.shtml Ch 8], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/34/a3260134.shtml Ch 9] , [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/60/a3260260.shtml Ch 10], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/30/a3260530.shtml Ch 11], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/11/a3264211.shtml Ch 12], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/15/a3269315.shtml Ch 13], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/67/a3269667.shtml Ch 14]
**[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/52/a1311652.shtml "Secret Training on DD (Swimming) Tanks. Preparations to retake Singapore"] by John Leyin of the [[25th Dragoons]]. This training took place on a spit off Cocanada (now Kakinada ) which was about 300 miles north of Madras. An adapted extract from ''Tell Them Of Us - The Forgotten War – Burma'' by John Leyin.
*[http://storyofwar.com/about A Story of War] Colin Diarmid Campbell Dunford Wood, kept war diaries continuously from early 1939. Initially with the 1st Battalion [[17th Regiment of Foot| Leicestershire Regiment]] in [[North West Frontier Campaigns|Waziristan]], he later joined the [[Royal Air Force]], flying in Iraq, India and Burma (where he flew the last Hurricane out, before the advancing Japanese) and Europe
*[http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/index.htm The Mumblings of Edward Sparkes] [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/contents.htm Contents page] Flt Lt Edward D S N Sparkes was in the RAF and arrived in India in the latter part of 1943 in the chapter [http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/sparkes/bombay2.htm Ashore in Bombay]. He subsequently joined X Squadron Royal Indian Air Force and served in Burma until he was invalided back to England in 1945
*[http://www.dnw.co.uk/auction-archive/catalogue-archive/lot.php?department=Medals&lot_id=98353 Military Cross-Mick Muldoon-“The Surfboard Commandos”] dnw.co.uk
*[http://www.152hyderabad.co.uk/index.htm 152(Hyderabad) F Squadron 1939-1967] Served in India from 19th December 1943 as part of Calcutta’s defence and later moved to the front. Disbanded at R.A.F. [[Risalpur]] in 1947
*"Browsing Through a Treasure House: The Literature of the Burma Campaign" by Gordon Graham. From the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London 2011 [http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668/1/BCML-W.G.Graham2011.pdf pdf] [https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668 Abstract] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131121095717/http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/11668/1/BCML-W.G.Graham2011.pdf archive.org version])
