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[[Image:Mule Corps.jpg|right|thumb|150px|''page from 1905 Indian Army List showing entries for Mule corps'']]
Details of where the individual sections of the Mule Corps were based each year are included in the annual Indian Army Lists under the section entitled "Supply and Transport Corps". (An example page from 1905 is shown).
==Mule Corps in Macedonia, First World War==
Mule Corps from the Indian Army served in Macedonia during the First World War, see External links.
There was also a British Army regiment called the Macedonian Mule Corps established in the summer of 1916 by the British Salonica Army and the Cyprus colonial government, (also known as the Cypriot Mule Corps). These men served mostly in Salonica during the war and in Istanbul after the armistice. <ref>[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=9498655&fileId=S0165115314000540 Abstract only] of "Recruitment and Volunteerism for the Cypriot Mule Corps, 1916-1919. Pushed or Pulled?" by Andrekos Varnava, ''Itinerario'' / Volume 38 / Issue 03 / December 2014, pp 79-101</ref> A regimental history, ''The Macedonian Mule Corps 1916-1919 : some records'', compiled by Major J.P.B. Condon (1979, Nicosia) is available at The National Archives Library.
==External links==
*[http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/BRITISHARMYANIMALS.PDF British Army Transport Animals] Excellent article by Clive Elliott containing lots of background information about the roles played by army mules with accompanying photos and diagrams.
*[http://www.limbergunners.ca/html/body_history_of_the_screw_gun.html The History Of The Screw Gun] By Colonel J.R.M. Hubel, CD AdeC BA M Ed limbergunners.ca. Includes a section on mules (scroll down)
*At [[Gallipoli]] dring during the [[First World War]] there were Four Mule Cart Corps, each comprising 650 men and 1086 mules.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140221014448/http://www.hcindia-au.org/pdf/The%20Indian%20Army%20at%20Gallipoli%201915.pdf "The Indian Army at Gallipoli 1915"] condensed from a paper presented by Sqn Ldr Rana TS Chhina (Retd) at a conference organised by the Australian War Memorial in August 2010. Website of the High Commission of India in Australia, now an archived page.</ref>
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/_assets/archiosgallery/57/2344.jpg Photograph of Indian troops [7 Indian Mounted <nowiki>[Mountain?]</nowiki> Artillery Bde with mules, waiting to embark transport ship at Alexandria, Egypt. No 2278. 1916] from a [http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/the-dardanelles-expedition#Gallery collection of official photographs of the Dardanelles Expedition, 1915-1916.] The Serving Soldier King’s College London
*[http://www.mapinpub.in/book_images/Sample%20pages%20from%20Indian%20Troops%20in%20Europe.pdf Photograph: Mule carts at Bombay docks, WW1] Scroll down to the image. mapinpub.in
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1500292/Brigadier-Hector-Wilkins.html Obituary of Brigadier Hector Wilkins 1916-2005] 10 Oct 2005 ''The Telegraph''. In 1944 He was a supervising veterinary officer of "A" Group Indian Pack Transport consisting of nearly 1,000 animals in Italy.
*Video: [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060030433 Evacuation of "special force" mules and men by waterborne craft made especially for the occasion] Burma WW2 contains some images of mules. Imperial War Museums
==Historical books online==
