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tameside.gov.uk</ref> HQ was initially based in [[Allahabad]] <ref> [http://themanchesters.org/forum/index.php?action=printpage;topic=7002.0 Forum post] by Robert Bonner June 29, 2013 themanchesters.org</ref> A diary, including a description of the journey to India of a “unit of middle-aged and medically downgraded men”<ref>themonsstar.[https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/205407-1st-garrison-battalion-the-manchester-regiment/ 1st Garrison Battalion The Manchester Regiment] ''Great War Forum'' 21 January 2013. Retrieved 26 April 2019.</ref>, and letters home may be found in ''1st Garrison Battalion The Manchester Regiment, India, Singapore, Hong Kong & Siberia'' by Robert Bonner
== External Links links ==
===Historical books online===
*''Some Recollections in the Life of Lieut.-Col. P.P. Nevill, late Major 63rd Regiment'' 1864 [http://www.archive.org/stream/somerecollection00nevirich#page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org] In 1838 the 63rd regiment was in Burma. [http://www.archive.org/stream/somerecollection00nevirich#page/226/mode/2up page 227]
*[http://www.tameside.gov.uk/museumsgalleries/mom Museum of the Manchester Regiment] at Ashton Town Hall, Market Place, Ashton-under-Lyne<br>
*[http://www.tameside.gov.uk/archives/manchesterregiment Manchester Regiment Archives] at the Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre, Central Library, Ashton-under-Lyne<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130128013306/http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/kendall-family.org/html/a_tale_of_3_brothers.html A Tale of 3 brothers] Biography of 3 soldiers who served with 63rd in India and Burma (indian-cemeteries.org, now an archived website) <br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304080911/https://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/Regimental_History.pdf “The Regimental History of the Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment”] army.mod.uk, now an archived webpage.
:The constituent regiments are the [[4th Regiment of Foot|4th]], [[8th Regiment of Foot|8th]], [[30th Regiment of Foot|30th]], [[34th Regiment of Foot|34th]], [[40th Regiment of Foot|40th]], [[47th Regiment of Foot|47th]], [[55th Regiment of Foot|55th]], [[59th Regiment of Foot|59th]], [[63rd Regiment of Foot|63rd]], [[81st Regiment of Foot|81st]], [[82nd Regiment of Foot|82nd]] and [[96th Regiment of Foot|96th]] Regiments of Foot.
