Thank you very much for the explanation and website. I have since done a simple Google search for Percy Thomas Etherton and found a wealth of information on him- quite the explorer and man by all accounts. Why I didn't think of it before I don't know!! Linda LShurtleff@aol.com wrote: The British Indian Army of 1914 was officered almost entirely by British subjects, King's Commissioned officers many of whom were schooled in the languages of their troops. The entire Indian subcontinent (now Pakistan, Bangladesh and India) was a British colonial possession until 1947. The 39th Garawal Rifles were part of the Indian Army Corps fighting on the Western Front in 1914-15. For a history of the British Indian Army on the Western Front in WWI see: Sepoys in the Trenches, Gordon Corrigan, Tempus, 2006. For suggestions on tracing the service of British soldiers, consult the WFA-UK website at _www.westernfrontassociaton.com_ (http://www.westernfrontassociaton.com) . LGS ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GREATWAR-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message