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The object of the '''Corps of Guides''', composed of horse cavalry and foot soldiers, was to provide trustworthy men to act as guides to troops in the field, and also to collect intelligence beyond as well as within the [[North West Frontier Province|North-West Frontier]] of India. The regiment was located at [[Mardan]] on the [[Peshawar]] border and became one of the most famous in the Indian army. The Corps of Guides were the first soldiers in either the British or Indian Armies to wear Khaki - which derives from the Indian word for dust.

*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1960-03-74-1-1 Photograph: Indian NCOs of the Guides Cavalry, 1879] UK National Army Museum

*[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16808/16808-h/16808-h.htm ''The Story of the Guides''] by Col G J Younghusband 1908 (gutenberg.org). Also available from [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023907953#page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org]

*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b4522143?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''History of the Guides, 1846-1922''] 1938 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Volume 1 of two Volumes. Volume 2: ''History of the Guides 1922-1947'', by Sir George MacMunn, published 1950, is available at the [[British Library]].

*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cXgOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Twelve Years of a Soldier's Life in India: being extracts from the letters of the late Major W. S. R. Hodson''] 2nd edition 1859. Google Books. He was appointed second in command of the Guides in 1847, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cXgOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA48 page 48], and subsequently became famous as Hodson of [[Hodson's Horse]]

*[https://archive.org/details/frontiercampaign00dunmrich ''A Frontier Campaign: a Narrative of the Operations of the Malakand and Buner Field Forces, 1897-1898''] by the Viscount Fincastle, Lieutenant, 16th (Queen’s) Lancers and PC Eliott- Lockhart, Lieutenant “Queen’s Own” Corps of Guides 2nd Edition 1898 Archive.org

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