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*'''1964''' became 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.
== External Links links ==
===Historical books online===
*''Historical Record of the Ninth, or the East Norfolk Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1685, and of its subsequent services to 1847'' by Richard Cannon 1848 [http://books.google.com/books?id=zX0ykEGNe1EC Google Books] Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=zX0ykEGNe1EC&pg=PA85 page 85] in 1835 at Calcutta
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=624BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 ''A narrative of four months' campaign in India, 1845-6 including the Battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshuhur. & Sobraon''], by J W. Baldwin 1853 Google Books
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015076666372?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The History of the Norfolk Regiment Volume I 20th June 1685 to 3rd August 1914''] by F Loraine Petre. c 1924. HathiTrust Digital Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/norfolkregimentvol2/page/n9/mode/2up ''The History of the Norfolk Regiment 1685-1918. Volume II 2, 4th August 1914 to 31st December 1918 is available at the [[British Library'']] UIN: BLL01001097226, and is also available in a Naval & Military Press reprint editionby F Loraine Petre c 1925 Archive.org. Battalions served on the [[Western Front]], [[Mesopotamia Campaign| Mesopotamia]], [[Gallipoli]], [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]].
:''History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment 1919-1951'' by P.K. Kemp is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01017581375
*[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19470818&id=a2hAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=j5QMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3090,6345664 '"British Troops Leave"] ''The Glasgow Herald'' August 18, 1947 Google News
*[http://www.mid-day.com/photos/independence-day-special-reliving-history-in-pictures/5861/56226 Photograph: August 17, 1947, soldiers from The Royal Norfolk Regiment embark on the S.S. Georgic bound for Britain] on the quayside in Mumbai, the first British Army unit to leave Indian soil after the country achieved independence. mid-day.com. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxckDsWPko Video: British Troops Leave India 1947] British Pathe on YouTube . This video appears to be of the same troops as in the photograph although they are unnamed. They are however sailing on the 'Georgic.'
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[[Category: British Army Infantry Regiments]]
