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:[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/19/a5396619.shtml Part I: Scotland to Burma], [http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/43/a5396943.shtml Part II: Driving to Meiktila, Central Burma and Life in the Jungle]
:[https://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesbarlow/sets/72157661200709283/page1 Photograph Collection: Alastair Stewart McGhee from his time in North West India from 1946 to 1947]. flickr.com. He was initially based at [[Risalpur]], then at Gardai, [[Waziristan]].
*[http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/oct/09/eric-lomax Eric Lomax obituary] (1919-2012) ''The Guardian'' 10 October 2012. He was in Singapore at the surrender in 1942 and became a POW working on the Burma-Siam railway. His memoir is ''The Railway Man'', (available online, refer below), now also released as a film of the same name. Also see [[Royal Corps of Signals#FIBIS resources|FIBIS resources above]]
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk/wire-archive/ ''The Wire'' Archive] A repository for all editions of ''The Wire'', the Magazine of the Royal Corps of Signals, from 1920 to 2008. royalsignalsmuseum.co.uk
*[http://www.davidhorsfield.org.uk ''From Semaphore to Satellite The memoirs of Major General David Horsfield, Royal Signals''] may be read online. He served in Burma in 1942 and was then in India 1942-1946.
*[https://archive.org/details/railwayman0000loma_e5v3/mode/2up ''The Railway Man''] by Eric Lomax 2014 first published 1995. He became a POW at the fall of Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow Lending Library.
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