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Trek Out of Burma in 1942
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/megbur.html "Burma, 1942 and the Anglo-Indian and Anglo-Burmese Community"] by Megan Stuart Mills, 1999. Eighth edition of the ''International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies''.
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/581001.html "Retreat from Burma 1942: The Struggles through the Northern Passes"] by Harry Fecitt. “Harry’’s Sideshows” kaiserscross.com/
*[https://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/icrc-archives/ ICRC Archives] in Geneva. The International Committee of the Red Cross has some records in respect of refugees from Burma. <ref>Milner, Rowland. [https://web.archive.org/web/20181102053930/https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india.rootsweb.com/thread/15663356/ Family History Donald Mellican] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 04 September 1999, now archived. The lost boy was eventually traced, but had died. [https://web.archive.org/web/20200223233541/http://www.worldwar2burmadiaries.com/dudleychettritraced.html worldwar2burmadiaries.com], archived.</ref>
====Historical books online====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945. Archive.org. The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma into India.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughjungleofd0000broo ''Through the jungle of death : a boy's escape from wartime Burma''] by Stephen Brookes published 2000. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/flightbyelephant0000mart_q9k7 ''Flight by elephant : the untold story of World War Two's most daring jungle rescue''] by Andrew Martin 2013. [https://archive.org/details/flightbyelephant0000mart_u4u2/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Tea planter Gyles Mackrell mounted an epic rescue mission, with the aid of a herd of elephants and their mahouts.
 
==Railways and Tramways==
*[[Irrawaddy Valley State Railway]] from 1877 until 1896
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