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*"The Life of a Madras Artilleryman: The William Porter Letters" by Peter Bailey [[FIBIS Journals|''FIBIS Journal Number 3 (Spring 2000'')]]. FIBIS members may read this article online.
:Extracts from "The Private Letters of William Porter, Gunner, 3rd Batt., Madras Artillery (1826-1857) (Mss Eur. G128, British Library)", including time spent in Burma
*FIBIS database:[https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=list_sources&source_class=412 Burma Reserve of Officers (ABRO) 1940 - 1947] Lists of ABRO Appointments, Rewards, Relinquishments and Rangoon Port Defence Volunteers
==Military==
====Historical books online====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.528129 ''Forgotten Frontier''] by Geoffrey Tyson, published 1945. Archive.org. The book is about the escape of refugees from Burma in 1942 and the help provided by the tea planters of Assam in assisting the refugees from north Burma into India.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160401152039/http://ourstory.info/library/4-ww2/Geren/diary.html ''Burma Diary''] by Paul Geren published 1943 In 1941 Paul Geren agreed to spend two years at Judson College in Rangoon, Burma, as a short-term missionary under the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Following the Japanese bombing Professor Geren's classroom became a field hospital as he offered his services as an ambulance driver to Dr. Gordon Seagrave, the famed Burma surgeon. He later trekked to India. From the website ourstory.info, now archived.
*[https://archive.org/details/throughjungleofd0000broo ''Through the jungle of death : a boy's escape from wartime Burma''] by Stephen Brookes published 2000. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/flightbyelephant0000mart_q9k7 ''Flight by elephant : the untold story of World War Two's most daring jungle rescue''] by Andrew Martin 2013. [https://archive.org/details/flightbyelephant0000mart_u4u2/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Tea planter Gyles Mackrell mounted an epic rescue mission, with the aid of a herd of elephants and their mahouts.
==Records==
===British Library===
*[[Church records|Baptisms, Marriages and Burials]] for Burma are included in the [[Bengal Ecclesiastical Returns Index|Bengal returns]] ('''N/1''') up to 1936(with only brief details for baptisms from 1923). Records for 1937 to 1957 for Burma are in a separate series '''N/10''' with a single index for Burma BMBs. All these records (subject to a few exceptions) are part of the digitised India Office Records collection on the commercial website [[Findmypast]] where however due to the dates of the N/10 record series, for privacy reasons only minimal details may be displayed for baptisms from 1937 and marriagesfrom 1938, although death records should display standard details, as should 1937 marriages (as at 2023/03/13). The N/1 record indexes are available on [[IGI|FamilySearch]], but those for N/10 are not. If you want a full record from the N/10 series, for most people the only option will be to request a copy from the [[British Library]]. *[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorv_4-2&cid=1-1-8#1-1-8 Burma Gazette '''IOR/V/11/3406-3694'''] 1875-1952.This publication was one of the Government Gazettes which were the official newspapers of the Government of India and its provincial governments where information, such as appointments, promotions,etc was 'gazetted'.
===LDS (Mormon)===
===Historical books online===
*'''Also see [[Gazetteers#Burma|Gazetteers-Burma]] for more online Gazetteers'''.
*[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28Report+on+the+Administration+of++Burma+%29&sort=date ''Report on the Administration of Burma''] multiple volumes from 1864-65 to 1935-36. Title varies slightly over time, also including ''Province of British Burma, British Burma'' and ''Lower Burma''. Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/NicoloDeContisEarlyFifteenthCenturyTravelsInTheEast "Early Fifteenth Century Travels in the East: Nicolò de' Conti of Venice"]. From the 1579 translation by John Frampton, with notes by Kennon Breazeale. ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'' Vol 2, No 2 Autumn 2004. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/EditorialIntroductionToNicolDeContisAccountByKennonBreazeale "Editorial Introduction to Nicolò de' Conti'€s s Account"] by Kennon Breazeale from the same ''SOAS Bulletin''. Archive.org. For additional online accounts of Nicolò de' Conti, see [[Travel accounts online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/ralphfitchenglan00rylerich ''Ralph Fitch, England's Pioneer to India and Burma. His Companions and Contemporaries. With his Remarkable Narrative Told in his Own Words''] by J. Horton Ryley. 1899 Archive.org. Fitch was active 1583-1606.
* ''Early English Intercourse With Burma 1587-1743'' by D G E Hall 1928. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81816 Archive.org version], originally from the Digital Library of India. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=w-4rBgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1 Preview Google Books reprint of the 1968 edition]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WK8-AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA55 "Pegu, Ava and Arracan"] page 55 ''The New Universal Traveller: Containing a Full and Distinct Account of All the Empires, Kingdoms, and States, in the Known World'' by J Carver 1779 Google Books
*''Oriental Repertory'' by Alexander Dalrymple ''Volume 1'' 1793 and ''Volume 2'' 1808 contain a number of references to early Burma. See [[Scientific books online]]
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221068/page/n3/mode/2up ''A Treatise on Elephants. Their Treatment in Health and Disease''] by Vety.-Capt. G H Evans Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Burma 1901 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/elephantstheirdi00evan/page/n9/mode/2up ''Elephants and their Diseases. A Treatise on Elephants''] by Lieut.-Colonel GH Evans , Superintendent, Civil Veterinary Department, Burma 1910. Revised edition. Archive.org
:[https://dl.mospace.umsystem.edu//mu/islandora/object/mu:109954/#page/1/mode/2up ''Notes on elephants and their care''] by the late Mr W Hepburn. 2nd Impression 1919 (first published 1918? or 1913?) Rangoon. Click to a separate digital file for inserts. The author worked as Veterinary Surgeon to the BBTC Ltd (Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation). Digital Library University of Missouri. [https://archive.org/details/elephants-care-images/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023503174 ''Scenes in Burma: An Album of 125 Views''] c 1900-1910? Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/furtherindia00clif ''Further India: being the story of exploration from the earliest times in Burma, Malaya, Siam and Indo-China''] by Hugh Clifford 1904 with [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n472/mode/1up Orographical Map and Political Map of Farther India] and [https://archive.org/stream/furtherindia00clif#page/n473/mode/2up Index] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/a-burmese-arcady-c-m-enriquez-1923/mode/2up ''A Burmese Arcady, an account of a long and intimate sojourn amongst the mountain dwellers of the Burmese hinterland and of their engaging characteristics and customs''] by Major C M Enriquez, [3/70th] Kachin Rifles. 1923. Archive.org. Also available [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea017 Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023047826 ''Forty years in Burma''] by Dr J E [John Ebenezer] Marks 1917 Archive.org. He went to Burma in 1859 as a layman for educational purposes in connection with the Society for the Propogation of the Gospel [SPG] at Maulmein. He was ordained Priest in 1866 in Calcutta, and subsequently returned to Burma, as an educational missionary, particularly at St John's College Rangoon, retiring in 1900.
* ''A Short History of Burma'' by S W Cocks [https://archive.org/details/cu31924022998623/page/n7/mode/2up 1919 2nd edition, revised and partially rewritten], [https://archive.org/details/shorthistoryofbu00cockrich/page/n9/mode/2up 1910 edition]. Both Archive.org.
*[https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea289 ''Tourist guide and shopping list : where to go, what to see, where to shop in Calcutta and Burma''] 1920. Southeast Asia Visions, Cornell University
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023498458#page/n3/mode/2up ''Burma Pictures''] c 1920 Archive.org
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