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*[http://web.archive.org/web/20090309055254/http://sikhli.info/index.php/history History of the Sikh Light Infantry] sikhli.info, now an archived website (retrieved 29 April 2014)
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20090310000912/http://sikhli.info/index.php/publications Regimental Histories] sikhli.info, now an archived website (retrieved 29 April 2014)
*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580028/Letters-of-forgotten-VC-winner-found.html Letters of forgotten VC winner found]. 27 February 2008 ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 23 August 2014. Brevet Captain Robert Shebbeare won his medal during the infamous siege of Delhi in September 1857. Afterwards he put together a Sikh regiment, the 15th Punjab, which later saw action in China. Includes photograph with officers of his 15th Punjab regiment, "taken by Mr Beato in the British camp at Talien Hwan, Manchuria, on either 10 or 11 July 1860".<ref>Snook, Mike [https://web.archive.org/web/20160905012359/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=9627&start=45#p47343 "mewafarosh"] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 20 August 2014, now archived. Retrieved 23 August 2014</ref>''Indian Mutiny and Beyond: The Letters of Robert Shebbeare VC'' edited by Arthur Littlewood [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=M_rLDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT2 sample pages, Google Books]
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shebbeare Robert Shebbeare] Wikipedia
*[https://issuu.com/royalpioneercorpsassociation/docs/2015_april_newsletter "23 Sikh Pioneers Kisangule Expedition"] by Norman Brown, page 44 ''The Pioneer Newsletter April 2015'' (The newsletter of the Royal Pioneer Corps Association). issuu.com. Award of the Central Africa Kisangule Expedition December 1891 Indian Order of Merit to Havildar Nand Singh 23rd Bengal Sikh Pioneers. Includes an account by H H Johnston, also see Historical books online, below. Also see below for more about his medals.
