Military periodicals online

Also see Directories online for some Army Lists.

Air Force List

Online Air Force Lists, in respect of the Royal Air Force, from the collection of the National Library of Scotland on Archive.org
The Lists were initially published on a monthly basis. Currently available (at April 2012) are

• 1919 February-August, November, December
• 1938 January-September, November, December
• 1939 January (catalogued 1929), February-December
• 1940 February-June, August, October, December
• 1941-1943 January, March, May, July, September, November
• 1944 January, March, May, July, October
• 1945 January, April, July.

Army Medical Department Report

• Report of the Committee on the Preparation of Army Medical Statistics, and on the Duties To Be Performed by the Statistical Branch of the Army Medical Department 1861 Google Books

• Army Medical Department: Report for the Year... Earlier title Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year... Section: "On The Health of the Troops Serving in India". Year of publication in brackets. Appears to be only in respect of troops in garrisons and to exclude troops in military actions. Earlier volumes Google Books and later volumes Archive.org

1859 (p 1861) Contents	1860 (p 1862) Contents Bombay page 279 Madras page 282 Burmah page 286 Bengal page 288	1861 (p 1863)	1862 (p 1864) Contents Bengal page 123 Madras page 132 Bombay page 135	1863 Volume 5 (p 1865)	1864 Volume 6 (p 1866) Contents Bengal page 116 Madras page 125 Bombay page 135
1865 Volume 7 (p 1867) Contents Bengal page 105 Madras page 123 Bombay page 133		1867 Volume 9 (p 1869) Contents Bengal page 129 Madras page 151 Bombay page 167	1868 Volume 10 (p 1870) Contents Bengal page 136 Madras page 155 Bombay page 174	1869 Volume 11 (p 1871) Contents Madras page 158 Bombay page 178	1870 Volume 12 (p 1872) Contents Bengal page 142 Madras page 160 Bombay page 179
1877 Volume 19 (p 1879) Contents Bengal page 88 Madras page 106 Bombay page 119	1878 Volume 20 (p 1880) Contents Bengal page 98 Madras page 116 Bombay page 129	1882 Volume 24 (p 1884) Contents Bengal page 77 Madras page 91 Bombay page 99	1885 Volume 27 (p 1887) Contents India page 97. Poor Quality Text	1887 Volume 29 (p 1889) Contents Bengal page 103 Madras page 129 Bombay page 144	1890 Volume 32 (p 1892) Contents Bengal page 123 Madras, page 152 Bombay page 171
1891 Volume 33 (p 1893) Contents Bengal page 125 Madras page 161 Bombay page 181	1896 Volume 38 (p 1897) Contents India page 135	1897 Volume 39 (p 1898) Contents India page 160

The British Indian Military Repository

All volumes are from Google Books

Volume and Year	Contents	Contents	Contents
Volume 1, 1822	Part 1	Part 2
Volume 2, 1823	Part 1	Part 2
Volume 3, 1824	Part 1	Part 2
Volume 4, 1826	Part 1	Part 2	Part 3
Volume 5, 1827	Part 1	Unindexed pages139-255	Part 3

Journal of the Royal United Service Institution

A London publication which generally contained a few articles about India in each edition.

The journals below are from the Google Books, Archive.org and Hathi Trust Digital Library websites.

This journal later changed its name to the Journal of the Royal United Services Institute and some of the journals below may have been catalogued by the online websites under this latter name

		1858, Volume 1-Contents	1859, Volume 2-Contents	1860, Volume 3-Contents
1861, Volume 4-Contents	1862,Volume 5-Contents	1863, Volume 6-Contents	1864, Volume 7-Contents	1865, Volume 8-Contents
1866, Volume 9-Contents	1867, Volume 10-Contents Index, Volumes 1-10 1868	1868, Volume 11-Contents	1869, Volume 12-Contents	1870, Volume 13-Contents
1871, Volume 14-Contents	1872, Volume 15-Contents	1873, Volume 16-No Contents page
1876, Volume 19-Contents	1877, Volume 20– Contents	1886-7, Volume 30-Contents	1889-90, Volume 33-Contents	July -Dec 1909, Volume 53-Index

Navy List

Useful for researching an Officer's career. There have been several version of the Navy List.

• 1782-1814 Steel's Navy List
• 1814 to present day: Official "Navy List"
• 1841-1856 Unofficial "New Navy List" - which often gives biographical details.

From the Google Book website

Steel's list 1782	Navy List September 1814	Navy List September 1816	Navy List March 1834	New Navy List November 1840
New Navy List August 1841	New Navy List Feb 1842	New Navy List Feb 1843	New Navy List August 1843	New Army List Feb 1844
New Navy List Jan 1847	Navy List December 1847	New Navy List January 1849	New Navy List January 1851	New Navy List January 1852
New Navy List August 1852	New Navy List November 1852	New Navy List Feb 1853	New Navy List February 1854	New Navy List Feb 1855
Navy List December 1856	Navy List December 1858	Navy List March 1861	Navy List December 1864	Navy List Jan 1866
Navy List June 1870	Navy List September 1870	Navy List June 1871	Navy List September 1871	Navy List December 1872

From the Archive.org website

	Navy List March 1835	Navy List December 1849	Navy List June 1848	New Navy List January 1850
Navy List June 1850	Navy List June 1856	Navy List December 1861	Navy List December 1862	Navy List December 1868
Navy List March 1876	Navy List September 1877	Navy List June 1878	Navy List December 1879	Navy List September 1881
The Navy List June 1884

Also on Archive .org from the collection of the National Library of Scotland on Archive.org
Navy Lists, in respect of the Royal Navy. The Lists were initially published on a monthly basis. Please note there may be several volumes for a particular date. The Contents page will generally be at the front of the first volume. There may be an Index at the back of the last volume. Currently available (at April 2012), noting that the dates on some editions are not included in the title, are

• 1913 March-December (no dates shown in titles)
• 1914 January-December
• 1915-1917 January, April, July, October
• 1918 January, April, July, December
• 1919 January-March, June-December.
• 1920 January, February-December (no dates shown in titles)
• 1921 January (no date shown in title)
• 1939 February- September, December
• 1940 February-July, October, December
• 1941 April, June, August, October
• 1942 February, April, June, August, October, December
• 1943 February, April, June, August, October, December
• 1944 February, April, June, October
• 1945 January, April, July

New Annual Army List

Volumes are from the Hathi Trust Digital Library, the Archive.org website,with others from Google Books

The title varied over time: 1840-1853, The New Annual Army List. 1854-1869, The New Annual Army List, and Militia List. 1870-1880, The New Annual Army List, Militia List, and Indian Civil Service List. 1881-1893, The New Annual Army List, Militia List, Yeomanry Cavalry List, and Indian Civil Service List. 1894-1901, The New Annual Army List, Militia List, and Yeomanry Cavalry List. 1902-1903, Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Yeomanry Cavalry List. 1904-1908, Hart's Annual Army List, Militia List, and Imperial Yeomanry List. 1909-1915 Hart's Annual Army List, Special Reserve List and Territorial Force List.

By 1881, the Table of Contents had become more detailed, and it is easier to see the sections which may be relevant for India. In additional to details about the Bengal, Madras and Bombay Armies, which also include Medical Department, Veterinary Department and Ecclesiastical Department details, sections such as Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and Staff Abroad also contain information about officers in India. From 1904 the title page stated "Containing dates of commissions, and a summary of the war services of nearly every officer in the Army, Supply &c. Departments, Marine and Indian Army, and Indian local forces." Some editions also contain Indian Civil Service Lists, refer Directories online-India List and India Office List for a separate list. The earlier editions, approximately prior to the early 1860 contain less information relevant to India. Editions from the early 1860s to 1880 contain information which may not be indexed.

To access Lists for years not included in the tables below:

• Editions from 1840 are available on the HathiTrust Digital Library. From 1873 limited access editions are available, probably accessible by those in North America. All these editions have the advantage that the pages can be rotated.
• Online Army Lists, from a broken range of dates from 1840 are available at National Library of Scotland on Archive.org. This links displays volumes in the order they were uploaded to Archive.org, and the editions for the earlier years, from 1840, were uploaded first, so appear last on the list.
• Hathi Trust Digital Library has the following editions of A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines 1794-1804 and 1782 and 1811- 1856 (broken range). All these editions have the advantage that the pages can be rotated. Also search in Google Books for other editions of A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines 1778-1855 (incomplete series) and New Army List 1840-1869 (incomplete series). For the latter series, some additional volumes may be found if they are searched for individually.
• Annual Army Lists from 1754 to 1879 are available to download (free of cost) as pdf files from the The National Archives Documents Online: Digital Microfilm,under WO 65 records.

			1854-Contents
		1858-Contents	1859-Contents	1860-Contents
1861-Contents	1862-Contents	1863-Contents	1864-Contents	1865-Contents
1866-Contents	1867-Contents	1868-Contents	1869-Contents	1870-Contents
1871-Contents	1872-Contents	1873-Contents	1874-Contents	1875-Contents
1876-Contents	1877-Contents			1880-Contents
1881-Contents		1883-Contents	1884-Contents	1885-Contents
1886-Contents	1887-Contents		1889-Contents	1890-Contents
1891-Contents
1896-Contents	1897-Contents	1898-Contents	1899-Contents	1900-Contents
1901-Contents	1902-Contents	1903-Contents	1904-Contents	1905-Contents
1906-Contents	1907-Contents	1908-Contents	1909-Contents	1910-Contents
1911-Contents	1912-Contents	1913-Contents	1914-Contents	1915-Contents

As an example of the information relating to, or including, the Indian Army, the following links are to the 1913 edition:
Officers of the Indian Army on the Supernumerary List transferred to permanent Civil Employment page 675, Indian Army Cavalry page 678, Indian Army Artillery page 692, Indian Army Sappers and Miners page 694, Indian Army Infantry page 696, Goorkha Regiments page 735, Indian Medical Service page 742 Bengal, Madras, Bombay and Rangoon Ecclesiastical Establishments page 754, War Services of the Officers of the Active List page 757. Indian Army Reserve of Officers and Officers on the Unemployed Supernumerary List pages 1218- 1219, War Service of Officers of the Retired List page 1326, Deaths page 1556, Index page 1561

New Army List

Volumes are from Google Books, and from the Archive.org website.

The title of this quarterly publication varied over time: The New Army List 1840-1853. The New Army List and Militia List 1854-1869. The New Army List, Militia List and Indian Civil Service List 1870-1880. The New Army List, Militia List, Yeomanry Cavalry List and Indian Civil Service List 1881-1893. The New Army List, Militia List and Yeomanry Cavalry List 1894-April 1901. The New Army List, Militia List and Imperial Yeomanry List July 1901-Jan. 1909. The New Army List, Special Reserve List and Territorial Force List April 1909-Jan. 1915. by H. G. Hart.

1 January 1863-Contents	1 October 1863-Contents	1 January 1864-Contents	1 July 1864-Contents	2 January 1865-Contents	1 July 1865-Contents
1 January 1866-Contents	2 July 1866-Contents	1 January 1867-Contents	1 July 1867-Contents	1 January 1868-Contents	1 July 1868-Contents
1 January 1869-Contents	1 July 1869-Contents	1 October 1869-Contents	1 January 1870-Contents	1 January 1871-Contents	1 July 1871-Contents
1 January 1874-Contents	1 January 1880-Contents

Date	Contents	Volume 1	Volume 2	Volume 3	Volume 4	Index	Supplementary Volume	Contents
October-December 1913	Contents	pages 1 -1035	pages 1036-2165	pages 2166-3037	.	Index	.	.
January-March 1914	Contents	pages 1-2204	.	.	.	Index	.	.
April-June 1914	Contents	pages 1-2204	.	.	.	Index	.	.
October-December 1914	Contents	pages 1-1158	pages 1159-2203i	pages 2203j-3019	.	Index	.	.
January-March 1915	Contents	pages 1-2203e	.	.	.	Index	.	.
April-June 1915	Contents	pages 1-2201	.	.	.	Index	.	.
July-September 1915	Contents	pages 1-683	pages 684-1800	pages 1801-2201	.	Index	.	.
October-December 1915	Contents	pages 1- 1215	pages 1216-2202	.	.	Index	War Services of Officers of the Army etc	.
January-March 1916	Contents	pages 1-999	pages 1000-1755b	pages 1756-2201	.	Index	.	.
April-June 1916	Contents	pages 1-677	pages 678-1786a	pages 1787-2202	.	Index	.	.
July-September 1916	Contents	pages 1-683	pages 684-1668	pages 1669-2202	.	Index	.	.
October-December 1916	Contents	pages 1-834	pages 835-1774	pages 1775-2446	pages 2447-3394	Index	.
January-March 1917	Contents	pages 1-949	pages 950-1746	pages 1747-2202	.	Index	.	.
April-June 1917	Content	pages 1-731	pages 732-1760a	pages 1761-2202	.	Index	.	.
July-September 1917	Contents	pages 1-733b	pages 734-1721	pages 1722-3394	.	Index	.	.
October-December 1917	Contents	pages 1-1200	pages 1201-2202b	.	.	Index	War Services of Officers of the Army etc	.
January-March 1918	Contents	pages 1-631	pages 632-1698	pages 1699-2202b	.	Index	.	.
April-June 1918	Contents	pages 1-860	pages 860a-1698	pages 1699-2202b	.	Index	.	.
July-September 1918	Contents	pages 1-1180	pages 1181-2502	.	.	Index	.	.
October-December 1918	Contents	pages 1-560	pages 560a-1262a	pages 1262b-1760a	pages 1761-2503	Index	War Services of Officers of the Army etc	Contents
April-June 1919	Contents	pages 1-749	pages 750 -1760a	pages 1761-2508	.	Index	.	.
July-September 1919	Contents	pages 1-767	pages 768-1760b	pages 1761-2508	.	Index	.	.
October-December 1919	Contents	pages 1-764	pages 765-1530	pages 1531-2511	.	Index	War Services of Officers of the Army etc	Contents

Army List from the collection of the National Library of Scotland at Archive.org has editions from July 1939 to December 1946

Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution

Volumes are from the Google Books and Archive.org websites.

The volumes below are catalogued by Google Books under the title The Journal of the Royal Artillery, which was the title from 1905.

Volume 1 1858-Contents

Volume 2 1861-Contents

Volume 6 1870-Contents

• Volume 15 1888 Contents and one article only. "The Expedition to the Ruby Mines of Upper Burma (A Short Sketch)" by Captain W. N. Lloyd, R.A. pdf version, html version ruby-sapphire.com

More editions are available on a restricted viewing basis, probably accessible to those in North America, on the Hathi Trust Digital Library, and Google Books

The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine

The title varies: 1827-1828, Naval and Military Magazine ; Jan. 1829-Dec. 1841, The United Service Journal and Naval and Military magazine; Jan. 1842-Apr. 1843, The United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal: May 1843-Dec. 1882. Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal; Jan. 1883-Dec. 1887, Colburn's United Service Magazine and Journal of the Army, Navy and Auxiliary Forces; Jan. 1888-Mar. 1890, Colburn's United Service Magazine. The title then became The United Service Magazine, which was published until June 1920. Many of the Google Books are catalogued under the latter title. Most of the links below are from Google Books.

Volume numbers were irregular: Jan. 1829-Dec. 1884 without volume numbering; Jan. 1885-Apr. 1888 called v. 113-119; May 1888-Mar. 1890, v. 119-122 (new ser. v. 1-4); Apr. 1890-Sept. 1900, old ser. v.107-127 (new ser. v. 1-21); Oct. 1900-June 1920, old ser. v. 143-182 (new ser. v. 22-61)

From 1920 the title became The Army Quarterly

Volume 1, Second Edition 1827-Contents	Volume 2 1827-Index
Volume 3 1828-Index	Volume 4 1828-Index

1829 Part 1-Contents	1829 Part 2-Contents
1830 Part 1-Contents	1830 Part 2-Contents
1831 Part 1-Contents	1831 Part 2-Contents	1831 Part 3-Contents
1832 Part 1-Contents	1832 Part 2-Contents	1832 Part 3-Contents
1833 Part 1-Contents	1833 Part 2-Contents	1833 Part 3-Contents
1834 Part 1-Contents	1834 Part 2-Contents *	1834 Part 3-Contents
1835 Part 1-Contents	1835 Part 2-Contents	1835 Part 3-Contents
1836 Part 1-Contents	1836 Part 2-Contents	1836 Part 3-Contents
1837 Part 1-Contents	1837 Part 2-Contents	1837 Part 3-Contents
1838 Part 1-Contents	1838 Part 2-Contents	1838 Part 3-Contents
1839 Part 1-Contents	1839 Part 2-Contents	1839 Part 3-Contents
1840 Part 1-Contents	1840 Part 2-Contents	1840 Part 3-Index

1841 Part 1-Contents	1841 Part 2-Contents	1841 Part 3-Contents
1842 Part 1-Contents	1842 Part 2-Contents	1842 Part 3-Contents
1843 Part 1-Contents	1843 Part 2-Contents	1843 Part 3-Contents
1844 Part 1-Contents	1844 Part 2-Contents	1844 Part 3-Contents
1845 Part 1-Contents	1845 Part 2-Contents	1845 Part 3-Contents
1846 Part 1-Contents	1846 Part 2-Contents	1846 Part 3-Contents
1847 Part 1-Contents	1847 Part 2-Contents	1847 Part 3-Contents
1848 Part 1-Contents	1848 Part 2-Contents	1848 Part 3-Contents
1849 Part 1-Contents	1849 Part 2-Contents	1849 Part 3-Contents
1850 Part 1-Contents	1850 Part 2-Contents	1850 Part 3-Contents

1851 Part 1-Contents	1851 Part 2-Contents	1851 Part 3-Contents
1852 Part 1-Contents	1852 Part 2-Contents	1852 Part 3-Contents
1853 Part 1-Contents	1853 Part 2-Contents	1853 Part 3-Contents
1854 Part 1-Contents	1854 Part 2-Contents	1854 Part 3-Contents
1855 Part 1-Contents	1855 Part 2-Contents	1855 Part 3-Contents
1856 Part 1-Contents	1856 Part 2-Contents	1856 Part 3-Contents
1857 Part 1-Contents	1857 Part 2-Contents	1857 Part 3-Contents
1858 Part 1-Contents	1858 Part 2-Contents	1858 Part 3-Contents
1859 Part 1-Contents	1859 Part 2-Contents	1859 Part 3-Contents
1860 Part 1-Contents	1860 Part 2-Contents	1860 Part 3-Contents

1861 Part 1-Contents	1861 Part 2-Contents	1861 Part 3-Contents
1862 Part 1-Contents	1862 Part 2-Contents	1862 Part 3-Contents
1863 Part 1-Contents	1863 Part 2-Contents	1863 Part 3-Contents
1864 Part 1-Contents *	1864 Part 2-Contents	1864 Part 3-Contents
1865 Part 1-Contents	1865 Part 2-Contents *	1865 Part 3-Contents
1866 Part 1-Contents	1866 Part 2-Contents	1866 Part 3-Contents
1867 Part 1-Contents	1867 Part 2-Contents	1867 Part 3-Contents
1868 Part 1-Contents	1868 Part 2-Contents July,Aug,Sept	1868 Part 3-Contents
1869 Part 1-Contents	1869 Part 2-Contents	1869 Part 3-Contents
1870 Part 1-Contents	1870 Part 2-Contents	1870 Part 3-Contents
1871 Part 1-Contents	1871 Part 2-Contents	1871 Part 3-Contents

*Hathi Trust Digital Library

1880 Part 3-Contents

Volume 8 New Series October 1893 to April 1894-Contents

Volume 29 New Series April 1904 to September 1904-Contents

Restricted access, probably accessible by those in North America. Google Books has most editions from 1872 to 1889 , 1894 ,1895 and 1908. Also with restricted access, the Hathi Trust Digital Library has editions after 1871 including some for the early 1890s page 1 and page 2