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*''The 40th Pathans In The Great War'', published 1921, Lahore. Available at the Imperial War Museums. Also available in a reprint edition,<ref name=PGR >[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/40th-pathans-in-the-great-war/ ''40th Pathans In The Great War''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see below.

The regiment served on the western front in France and Flanders during the [[First World War]]. On arrival at the front from Hong Kong in April 1915, the 40th Pathans took part in the 2nd Battle of Ypres, suffering 320 casualties on one day alone. Later that year they took part in the battles of Aubers Ridge and Loos before leaving in December for East Africa and the campaign against the German force commanded by Lettow-Vorbeck. The unit suffered a total of 800 casualties in the war, and a further 1,066 officers and men were invalided out of service due to sickness. At the end of the war in 1919 they saw service in the Third Afghan war .<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.comname=PGR /40th_pathans-in-the-great-war.html 40th Pathans In The Great War] (retrieved 12 May 2014)</ref>