TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mills, C. P.
TI  - A strange war / C.P. Mills
SN  - 862993776
U1  - D 547 .S57 .M55  1988  
CY  - Gloucester : Alan Sutton, 1988.
KW  - Great Britain. Army. Somerset Light Infantry – History
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 – Regimental histories – Great Britain
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 – India
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 – Afghanistan
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 -- Burma.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 – Campaigns – Burma
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 – Campaigns – India
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 – Campaigns – Afghanistan
N1  - “A strange war Burma, India & Afghanistan 1914-1919;  foreword by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu”—cover page; Includes bibliographical references; Summary: “On 12 December 1914, a convoy of troop ships sailed from Southampton for India, carrying Territorial battalions who were to relieve regular units of the British and Indian armies for service in France. My father sailed as Commanding Officer of the 7th Battalion the Hampshire Regiment in the liner Dunera, his unit disembarked at Bombay and took up duties in Secunderabad. Another ship in the convoy, the Ionian, carried the 2; 5th Battalion of the Somerset light infantry to Burma and on board was not only and Company Quarter Master Sergeant Ewens, on whose recollections of India and Burma in World War one this book is based”—foreword
ER  -