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:Recommended by Peter Moore in [[Military reading list#Other|Military reading list]] who says "Selected in England to be trained as an Officer Cadet in Wellington, Southern India, he was commissioned into the 8th King George’s Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army... This story covers the period between the wars and up to the end of the World War. He saw active service in the North-West Frontier; Africa; China and was the first prisoner-of-war to escape from the Japanese in Hong Kong; ending the war as the Equitation Instructor at the Officer Cadet School in Bangalore”. His earlier book ''Escape From The Bloodied Sun'' was a more detailed account of his escape from Hong Kong when he was an officer in the Middlesex Regiment.
*See [[John Masters]] for two online autobiographies covering his time in the Indian Army, c 1935-1947, initially with the [[4th Gurkha Rifles]], ''Bugles and a Tiger'' and ''Road Past Mandalay''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274860 ''Auchinleck: A Biography of Field-Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck''] by John Connell (pseud. John Henry Robertson) 1959 Archive.org. Auchinleck was appointed Commander-in Chief, India on 20 June 1943, but the role was restricted to not include operations against the Japanese.
*[https://archive.org/details/FriendsNotMastersAPoliticalAutobiographyByPresidentAyubKhan_201705 ''Friends Not Masters: A Political Autobiography''] by Mohammad Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan 1968 (first published 1967) Archive.org.[https://archive.org/stream/FriendsNotMastersAPoliticalAutobiographyByPresidentAyubKhan_201705/Friends-Not-Masters-A%20Political%20Autobiography%20by-President%20Ayub-Khan-#page/n21 ”Early Days in the Army”] page 9, he attended Sandhurst in 1926.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126753 ''The Untold Story''] by B M Kaul [Brij Mohan] 1967. Archive.org, , Public Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.126753/2015.126753.The-Untold-Story#page/n21 Page 16], he applies to join the Indian Army and is selected to go to train at Sandhurst where he passed out in July 1933. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brij_Mohan_Kaul Brij Mohan Kaul] He became Chief of General Staff (CoGS) in the Indian Army.
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