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*[http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/home.html The Army Children Archive (TACA)] contains information about children and wives, with themes such as [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/accomm.html Accommodation] and [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/move.html On the Move]. [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/history.html History Matters] (scroll down) gives details of the enlistment of an orphan boy age five,the son of a soldier, as a drummer in 1786. There are references to India in a number of the themes. [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/accompicsind.html Accommodation Album: India]
*[http://www.royalengineers.ca/femnkid.html On the Strength: Wives and Children of the British Army], a Canadian website. Some of the information, particularly in respect of physical work performed, may not be applicable to India.
*[http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/tommyatkins.htm Tommy Atkins]. A series of five articles including "The Domestic Life of Tommy Atkins", "Tommy Atkins Married", about aspects of life in the Army in the late Victorian period.<ref> Originally published in ''The Redan'', journal of The Palmerston Forts Society, three articles by Duncan Williams , (originally published in 1999-2001 (issues 46, 50, 53)) and two articles by David Moore (issues 72,74). From the website [http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/index.htm Victorian Forts and Artillery].</ref> These articles in turn include quotes from a series of articles which appeared in ''Navy and Army Illustrated'' commencing in June 1898 which gave insight into the life of an ordinary soldier
*[http://royalartillery1815.co.uk/index.php?page=british-soldiers-wives British Soldiers' Wives in the Napoleonic Era] Royalartillery1815.co.uk
*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Enlistment_of_Boy_Soldiers_in_the_British_Army,_1795-1959 Enlistment of Boy Soldiers in the British Army, 1795-1959] Your Archives
