Indian Army List online

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Search the British Library Archives and Manuscripts for a catalogue entry for Indian Army List ‎ (1889-1947) IOR/L/MIL/17/5/1-219, which includes a description of the frequency of publications at various periods and the editions which include War Services. For some years, a Supplement which contained war services of Indian Officers was published in January.

Currently (2024 December) the British Library Archives catalogue is not available, so the following details are given in respect of the War Services editions[1]

  • Between 1908 and 1922, the war services supplement appeared in the January and July issues.
  • Between 1923 and 1931 the war services supplement appeared in the January issue only.
  • Between 1932 and 1934 they changed the issuing period of the Indian Army list from four times a year to two - April and October - with the war services supplement appearing in the April issue.
  • They reverted to four times a year again as from January 1935 to January 1942 with the war services supplement, as before, appearing in the January issue only.
  • No war services supplement to the Indian Army List was issued after that of January 1942.

Indian Army Lists first appeared on the Digital Library of India website as pdf downloads in 2015. Most were recent additions from the Library of the United Service Institution of India, where the scanning quality of the digital files is good. However there are some older digital files where the scanning quality is very poor.

In January 2017 these DLI files were uploaded to the Internet Archive (Archive.org) and links are provided below. Books may be read online, or downloaded. The Digital Library of India is no longer operating.

Note: Most volumes have an Index of names at the back of the book.

Also see

1782-1859

See Directories online - East-India Register & Directory. Note that content may vary according to publication and date, particularly in the early years.

1861-1895

See Directories online - India List and India Office List for the publications Indian Army and Civil Service List 1861-1876 and India List Civil and Military 1877-1895.

1890-1899

1890-July Archive.org 1890-October Archive.org
1891-July Archive.org 1891-October Archive.org
1893-January Archive.org 1893- April Archive.org 1893- July Archive.org
1894-April Archive.org
1895-January Archive.org 1895-July Archive.org 1895-October Archive.org
1896-April Archive.org
1897-January Archive.org 1897-April Archive.org
1899-April Archive.org

1900-1909

1900-January Archive.org
1901-January Archive.org 1901-April Archive.org 1901-July Archive.org 1901-November Archive.org
1902-January Archive.org.

Note The Monthly Indian Army List

1902-February Archive.org

1902 April Archive.org

1902-May Archive.org

1902-July Archive.org 1902-October Archive.org
1905-January Archive.org

Catalogued incorrectly.

Should be January 1905,
not April 1919.

1905- April Archive.org 1905-July Archive.org 1905-October Archive.org
1907-July Archive.org
1908-October Archive.org
1909-January Archive.org 1909-October Archive.org

1910-1919

1910-July Archive.org
1911-January Archive.org
1912-January Archive.org

Also available from
FamilySearch, in 4 parts (free)
where you need to be
registered and signed in
to access the files.

1912-April Archive.org 1912-July Archive.org 1912-October Archive.org
1913- January Archive.org 1913- April Archive.org 1913-October Archive.org
1914-January Archive.org 1914-Aprll Archive.org 1914-October Archive.org
1915-January Archive.org 1915-April Archive.org 1915-July Archive.org 1915-October Google Books

1915-October Archive.org

1916-January Archive.org
1917-January Archive.org

inc. War Services

1917-July Archive.org
1918- July Archive.org

inc. War Services

1919-January

Available on the pay website fold3,

and sample pages only Google Books,

see below.#

1919-April Archive.org 1919-July Archive.org

1920-1929

1920-January Archive.org

includes

1920-January Supplement

1920-April Archive.org
1921-April

This edition is from
FamilySearch, (free)
where you need to be
registered and signed in
to access the file. #
Mirror version Archive.org

1921-July Archive.org

includes

1921-July Supplement

1922-January Archive.org

includes

1922-January Supplement

1922-April

Google Books
1922-April Archive.org

1923–April Archive.org 1923-October Archive.org
1924- January Supplement Archive.org 1924-October Archive.org
1925-July Archive.org 1925-October Archive.org
1926-April Archive.org

Catalogued
incorrectly.
Should be 1926, not 1920

1926-July, 905 pages Archive.org

1926-July, 905 pages Archive.org

1927-January Archive.org

1927-January Supplement Archive.org

1927-April Archive.org
1928-April Archive.org
1929-April Archive.org 1929- July Archive.org

#Refer Directories online for some other online editions of the Indian Army List, including
Indian Army List January 1919. Available in a reprint edition of four volumes, see sample pages only Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4: War Services Preview Google Books. In turn these reprint editions are available to read online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as one digital book Indian Army List located in Military Books/India.

1930-1939

1930- July Archive.org 1930-October Archive.org
1931- January Archive.org

Includes

1931-January Supplement

1931-July Archive.org
1932-October Google Books

1932-October Archive.org

1933-April Archive.org

Includes

1933- April Supplement

1933-October Archive.org
1934-October Archive.org
1935-October Archive.org
1936-July Archive.org 1936-October Archive.org
1937-January Supplement Archive.org

Also contains 1937-April

1937-April Archive.org

Part of the previous volume.

1938- April Archive.org 1938-October Archive.org
1939-January Supplement Archive.org

Also contains 1939-April

1939-April Archive.org

Part of the previous volume.

1939-April Wellcome Collection version.
If you can't access the file try another browser such as Chrome.

Another file 1939-April Archive.org Incomplete - ends at
page 292-293.
Around 500+ pages and
the index are missing.

1939-October Archive.org

1940-1947

1940- July, 933 pages Archive.org

1940-July, 933 pages Archive.org

1941-January Archive.org

includes

1941 January Supplement

1941-July Archive.org 1941-October Archive.org
1942-July, 1801 pages Archive.org

1942-July, 1801 pages Archive.org

1943-April Archive.org. Note the latter part of the digital file from p 1381 belongs to 1943-October.[2]

1943-April page 937 onwards (incorrectly catalogued as 1943-October[2]).

1943-October Archive.org

1943-October page 1381 onwards (from the latter part of 1943-April file[2]).

1944-April: Part 2, 1242 pages Archive.org

1944-April: Part 2, 1051 pages * Archive.org

1944-October: Part 2 Archive.org
1945-April: Part 1, 1624 pages Archive.org


Probably incomplete.

1945-April: Part 1, 1732 pages Archive.org

1945-October: Part 1 Archive.org

1945-October: Part 2 Archive.org

1946-April: Part 2 from page 1344. Archive.org 1946-October: Part 2, 1617 pages Archive.org @

1946-October: Part 2, 1199 pages Archive.org

1947- August Special Edition Archive.org


Incomplete-
missing at least
pages 114-140 & 147 - 198.
Poor quality scanning.


* Many pages are believed to be of poor quality.

@Stated to be Parts 1 and 2, but Part 2 only.

References

  1. Matthew B. Indian Soldier - Possible to see if he served on the Western Front? Chanda Singh - 15th Sikhs Great War Forum 14 December 2024. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 The intermixing and incorrect cataloguing of the digital files was noted by researcher R. P. and kindly advised to FIBIS 9 May 2019.