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*There were British support staff, mainly Warrant Officers and Sergeants, who were not attached to a regiment, see [[Unattached List]] for further details.
*Generally, all members of the volunteer or auxiliary regiments were British, including Anglo-Indians (formerly known as Eurasians). See [[Auxiliary Regiments]].
==Indian Army Followers==
Indian Army followers were regarded as non combatants, and received lesser benefits than those in the Indian Army.
There were two main categories of followers:
:Higher ranks of followers were listed in Rule 8 under the Indian Army Act (Act VIII of 1911) as the mule, bullock and camel drivers (singular drabi, or draby, a corruption of the English word driver) of the Supply and Transport Corps, the Transport veterinary dafadars, lascars in Arsenals and Depots of the Ordnance Department, and men of the Army Bearer Corps. They usually worked in their own distinct units.
:The second category, the menial followers, were the attached followers, including regimental followers, the latter being those attached to infantry or cavalry regiments. These were either public or private followers. The public followers were those deemed essential to the mobilization of a unit as a fighting formation and therefore paid from the central exchequer, such as a langri (cook for Indian troops), bhisti (sweeper) and mocha (saddler). Private followers were paid from mess funds, deductions in wages etc- barbers, dhobis (washer men), mess bearers (waiters), tailors and blacksmiths. Officers paid for their own servants, a personal bearer (valet) and a syce (groom)
20 March 1917: the conversion of mule drivers from follower to combatant service.
<br>23 April 1918: a set of concessions were announced for the Army Bearer Corps.<ref>The information in the section ndian Army Followers is taken from an article by Radhika Singha, "Front Lines and Status Lines: Sepoy and Menial in the Great War 1916-1920" refer External links above, including pages 60, 86 and 88.</ref>
==Records==
===British Library ===
*[http://recruitmenthistory.blogspot.com/2010/06/history-of-recruitment-in-indian-army.html "Recruitment History of Indian Army: Historical Perspective"] by Col Deepak Joshi (Retd) June 7, 2010 recruitmenthistory.com
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/events/daytime-talks/video-archive/martial-races-india Video and transcript: "The Martial Races of India: Recruitment by Ethnicity in the British Indian Army"] by Jasdeep Singh, recorded on 22 February 2016. nam.ac.uk, including YouTube video.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=TgNh2MQu0R0C&pg=PA60 Page 60], "Front Lines and Status Lines: Sepoy and Menial in the Great War 1916-1920" by Radhika Singha, a chapter in ''The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia'' 2010 Google Books.
*Pay to view British Pathe Film, [http://www.britishpathe.com/video/good-news-from-china/query/good+news+from+china Good News From China 1927], an indication that Indian troops were leaving China in 1927 "owing to marked improvement of situation in Shanghai."
*[http://books.stonebooks.com/subject/1003209/ India: Regimental histories] stonebooks.com (retrieved 23 April 2014)
