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Main article: [[East India Company Army]]
====British Library====
Records available in the [[British Library]] India Office holdings include:
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_6-2_2&cid=1-1#1-1 Madras Army Records] '''IOR/L/MIL/11'''. Access to Archives catalogue entry which includes links to subgroups.
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_2&cid=1-1-2-12#1-1-2-12 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 This index is unpublished and not available elsewhere.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.
*[http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/grand.html#a Officer biographies - Bengal and Madras Armies] from Macquarie University’s ''Seringapatam 1799''
====Historical books online====
*[http://www.archive.org/details/alphabeticallist00dodwuoft ''Alphabetical list of the officers of the Madras army''] by Edward Dodwell, 1838 (Archive.org)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historymadrasar00wilsgoog#page/n4/mode/1up ''History of the Madras Army Volume 2''] by Lieutenant-Colonel William John Wilson 1882. Archive.org. Covers the period 1780-1799. [http://www.archive.org/stream/historymadrasar01wilsgoog#page/n4/mode/1up ''Volume 3''] 1883. Archive.org. Covers the period 1799-1817. Volumes 1, 4 and 5 are available at the [[British Library]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=wboRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP9 ''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. [http://books.google.com/books?id=vyUoAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 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.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=_G4BAAAAMAAJ ''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
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=sUjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 ''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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=8UjRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP13 ''Volume 2''] Google Books (service from 1790)*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historymadrasar00wilsgoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of the Madras Army Vol II''] by Lt-Col W J Wilson 1882 (archive.org)*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historymadrasar01wilsgoog#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of the Madras Army Vol III''] by Lt-Col W J Wilson 1883 (archive.org)
