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===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/sikhsofpunjab00parruoft ''The Sikhs of the Punjab''] by R E Parry late Indian Army Reserve of Officers; sometime Acting Captain and Adjutant 2/15th Ludhiana Sikhs. Sometime attached 35th Sikhs. [1921] Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/sikhsofpunjab00parruoft#page/104/mode/2up Chapter VI Recruiting Methods] page 104.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/902 ''The Handbook for the Indian Army: Sikhs''] by A E Barstow 2/11th Sikh Regiment (late 15th Ludhiana Sikhs) 1928. Pdf download, Digital Library 1940 reprint of India. Full title: ''Handbook for the Indian Army: Sikhs''. 1928 edition, reprint 1940, is also available to read on line online on the [http://www.panjabdigilib.org/webuser/searches/displayPage.jsp?ID=2673&page=1&CategoryID=1&Searched= Panjab Digital Library].
*A romantic novel: [https://archive.org/details/55230680R.nlm.nih.gov ''The nurse's story : in which reality meets romance''] by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel set on the [[Western Front]] during the First World War is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. It is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a [https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1144&dat=19150807&id=YMUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=h0kEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4225,1611451&hl=en review of this novel] scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the ''Pittsburgh Press'' (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
