Madras Army

The Madras Army was one of the three Presidency Armies of the East India Company. In 1859, following the Indian Mutiny, the armies were restructured when India was brought under the control of the British Government. The Madras Army ceased to exist when the official Indian Army was formed in 1895.

A list of Madras Army regiments can either be found in the Madras Army Category or alphabetically, by type, in Madras Army Regiments.

Divisions

• Madras Artillery
• Madras Cavalry
• Madras Infantry:

• Madras European Infantry
• Madras Native Infantry
• List of Madras Infantry Regiments

• Madras Sappers and Miners

Records

Main article: East India Company Army

British Library

Records available in the British Library India Office holdings include:

• Madras Army Records IOR/L/MIL/11. Access to Archives catalogue entry which includes links to subgroups.

Please note that the Registers of Madras Army European Soldiers IOR/L/MIL/11/101-108 1786-1860 commenced in 1831 and only contain men still serving in the Army at that date. If a man left the Army prior to 1831 for any reason, including death, he will not appear in these records. The Muster records are an alternative source of information.

The LDS (Mormons) have filmed many of these records as listed in this LDS Library catalogue entry, after a keyword search for Madras Army Records

• Madras Army General and Regimental Histories, Biographical Compilations IOR/L/MIL/17/3/511-520 1852-1943. Access to Archives catalogue entry

Other sources

The National Army Museum holds a card index detailing officer's services. This index is unpublished and not available elsewhere. See the NAM article for details.

External links

• Madras Army in The Victorians at war, 1815-1914: an encyclopedia of British military history by Harold E. Raugh, 2004
• Officer biographies - Bengal and Madras Armies from Macquarie University’s Seringapatam 1799

Historical books online

• Alphabetical list of the officers of the Madras army by Edward Dodwell, 1838 (Archive.org)
• History of the Madras Army Volume 2 by Lieutenant-Colonel William John Wilson 1882. Archive.org. Covers the period 1780-1799. Volume 3 1883. Archive.org. Covers the period 1799-1817. Volumes 1, 4 and 5 are available at the British Library
• The Presidential Armies of India by Colonel S Rivett-Carnac 1890 Archive.org has chapters on the Madras Army
• Twelve years' military adventure in three quarters of the globe: or, Memoirs of an officer who served in the armies of His Majesty and of the East India Company, between the years 1802 and 1814 Volume 1 by John Blakiston 1829. Volume 2. Google Books. He joined the Madras Engineers in 1802. Pages 1- 115 of Volume 2 cover the period April 1811 to February 1812 , and mainly relate to the Expedition to Java.
• Journals of the sieges of the Madras Army, in the years 1817, 1818, and 1819 by Edward Lake of the Madras Engineers 1825 Google Books
• Military reminiscences: extracted from a journal of nearly forty years' active service in the East Indies Volume 1 by Colonel James Welsh of the Madras Establishment 1830. Google Books Volume 2 Google Books (service from 1790)