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*This [http://tribune.com.pk/story/204911/treasure-trove-awesome-/ article dated 8 July 2011, ''The Tribune'', Pakistan] by Sonia Malik gives details of records held at the Lahore Museum in respect of over 100,000 Indian soldiers who served in the British Army during the [[First World War]].
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/72157644008850194 Photographs: World War I: Indian Army by H D Girdwood] British Library on flickr.com. Mainly taken in France on the [[Western Front]]. Also available through the BL [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx Digitised Manuscripts Search] using keyword Girdwood.
*[http://swarajyamag.com/ideas/how-indian-officers-came-to-be-recruited-for-the-rajs-army "How The British Raj’s Army Opened Its Doors For ‘Indian’ Officers"] by Srinath Raghavan June 26, 2016 swarajyamag.com. Includes mention of the establishment of the Royal Indian Military Academy in Dehradun in October 1932.
*[http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com
*Obituary of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100924063518/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1448007/Charles-Chenevix-Trench.html Charles Chenevix Trench], c 1914 -2003 (telegraph.co.uk, archive.org link) He served as an Indian Army officer in the 1930s, commissioned into [[Hodson's Horse]], and winning an MC during the Second World War . In 1946 he retired from the Army to follow his father into the Indian Political Service for the 18 months until Partition. His 19 books included three classic accounts of British India: ''The Indian Army and the King's Enemies, 1900-1947''; ''The Frontier Scouts''; and ''The Viceroy's Agent'', all published in the 1980s and available at the [[British Library]]
