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Stations of the Royal Artillery in India

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This page is part Sources for determining the locations of [[Royal Artillery]]batteries. ==Law's Tables==For the period 1716 to 1877 ''Battery Records of the Royal Artillery'' compiled by MES Laws (two volumes) is a comprehensive guide to battery stations that also helps navigate the frequent renumberings that took place. It is available to consult at the [[British Library]], the RA's Firepower museum and on the open access library shelves at [[The National Archives]]. A third volume covering the period following 1877 is unpublished, but held by Firepower.
==The Nafziger Collection of Orders of Battle==
All the The following table links are to pdf documents from [http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/nafziger.htm The Nafziger Collection of Orders of Battle] which are derived from sources such as '''''The Army and Navy Gazette''''', which contain and containing information relating to the [[Royal Artillery]] in India. Some documents are provide limited in the information provided. '''Text documents''' may also be accessed from the Nafziger Collection website.
Although there does not appear to be any information relating to British troops in India after 1904 on the Nafziger Collection website, there is information available prior to 1862 but whether it includes information about the Royal Artillery has is not been determinedknown.
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==Specific years=====Stations in 1869===
''The Indian Army and Civil Service List July 1869'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=UwkLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA329 Brigades of Royal Artillery in Madras Presidency]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=UwkLAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA462 Brigades of Royal Artillery in Bombay Presidency]
===Afghanistan 1878-1882===Refer [[Stations of British Troops Army troops in India]]
===Stations in 1911===
The following list is derived from the 1911 England and Wales Census which included overseas military bases, taken from [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/browser.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=12183&GPE=False&DOWN=TRUE&MARKER=37579000&MARKERSCN&j=1&j=1 The National Archives RG 14/34978-34992, 34995, 34997] catalogue entry. There are indications it may not be a complete list of all regiments which were actually in India at the time.

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