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*[http://www.littlehamptonfort.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Kings-Shilling-3.pdf "The King’s Shilling: Life in army barracks 1855-1871"] in England. littlehamptonfort.co.uk.
*[https://www.victorianforts.co.uk/tommyatkins.htm Tommy Atkins]. A series of five articles including [https://www.victorianforts.co.uk/flipbook/atkinsdomestic/index.html#p=1 "The Domestic Life of Tommy Atkins"], [https://www.victorianforts.co.uk/flipbook/atkinsmarried/index.html#p=1 "Tommy Atkins Married"], about aspects of life in the Army in the late Victorian period.<ref> Originally published in ''The Redan'', journal of The Palmerston Forts Society, three articles by Duncan Williams , (originally published in 1999-2001 (issues 46, 50, 53)) and two articles by David Moore (issues 72,74). From the website [https://www.victorianforts.co.uk/index.htm Victorian Forts and Artillery].</ref> These articles in turn include quotes from a series of articles which appeared in ''Navy and Army Illustrated'' commencing in June 1898 which gave insight into the life of an ordinary soldier.
*[https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/4359 ''Tommy Atkins, War Office Reform and the Social and Cultural Presence of the Late-Victorian Army in Britain, c.1868-1899''] by Edward Peter Joshua Gosling 2016 Doctorate Thesis Plymouth University. “This thesis will examine the public and political treatment of the soldier in the late-nineteenth century and question how far the conflicting ideas of soldier-hero and soldier-beggar were reconciled”. Plymouth University website.
*[https://www.dover.gov.uk/Planning/Conservation/Conservation-Areas/Dover-Western-Heights-Conservation-Framework.pdf Built Heritage Conservation Framework for Dover Western Heights] by Liv Gibbs, February 2012. dover.gov.uk. Dover Western Heights is a series of forts at Dover, England. Includes a detailed chronology with information about Quarters for all ranks, facilities provided, military features etc, an indication of military life in a fort (and probably more generally applicable to Army life elsewhere.)
*[http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/09612020000200233 "‘Delicate duties’: issues of class and respectability in government policy towards the wives and widows of British soldiers in the era of the great war"] by Janis Lomas ''Women's History Review'', 9:1, 2000 pages 123-147. For rank and file soldiers, “on the strength” widows pensions applied from 1901, and “off the strength” widows pensions applied from the beginning of the First World War.
