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*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-30#1-1-14-1-30 '''IOR/L/MIL/17/19/30'''] ''Proceedings of the Government of India Military Department: Burma 1885-86''. 460 pages. Calcutta, 1886.
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-31#1-1-14-1-31 '''IOR/L/MIL/17/19/31'''] ''History of the Third Burmese War''. Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept, 1887-94. 6 volumes + 3 index volumes
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-2_4&cid=1-1-14-1-32#1-1-14-1-32 '''IOR/L/MIL/17/19/32'''] ''Supplement to the Third Burmese War. Diary of events''. Lt Henry Ernest Stanton. Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept, 1888-93. 3 volumes + index volume.:Some volumes are available online, refer below, but most are restricted to viewers in areas such as North America etc. The is however, one volume viewable without restriction.
==Medal rolls==
==== Historical books online ====
*[https://archive.org/details/ourburmesewarsre00laur ''Our Burmese wars and relations with Burma : being an abstract of military and political operations, 1824-25-26, and 1852-53, with various local, statistical, and commercial information, and a summary of events from 1826 to 1879, including a sketch of King Theebau's progress''] by Colonel W F B Laurie 1880 Archive.org
*[http://cslrepository.nvli.in/handle/123456789/7743 ''History of the Third Burmese War, 1885, 1886 and 1887. History of the war prior to the annexation of the country Period-1''] India. Quarter Master General's Department. Intelligence Branch 1887. Central Secretariat Library, Delhi (Govt. of India). [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7743/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012155890 ''History of the Third Burmese War [1885-1891<nowiki>]</nowiki>'']. The official history of the third Burmese war compiled in the Intelligence Branch of the Quarter-Master-General's Department in India consisting 4 volumes and 2 index volumes online. Restricted viewing, available to North American etc viewers. HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=dOc2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 ''History of the Third Burmese War, Diary of Events: Period 2 (Suppl.). From 1st April 1886 to 30th September 1886''] Google Books. This seems likely to be one of the four volumes which form IOR/L/MIL/17/19/32, mentioned above, by Calcutta/Simla: Intelligence Branch, QMG's Dept.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n125/mode/2up ''Frontier and Overseas Expeditions from India'' Vol V - 3rd Burma War] Archive.org
**[https://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n322/mode/1up "Chapter XXI Operations of 1889-90-91"] page 305. Includes "The Wuntho Expedition, 1891" [https://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924007613528#page/n324/mode/1up page 307]
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217197 ''The Coming of the Great Queen : a Narrative of the Acquisition of Burma''] by Major Edmond Charles Browne, Late Commandant Mounted Infantry Corps, Burma Field Force 1888 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/pacificationofbu00crosrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Pacification of Burma'']
by Sir Charles Crosthwaite. Chief Commissioner of Burma 1887-1890. 1912 Archive.org.This edition which has illustrations, is missing the [https://archive.org/stream/pacificationbur00crosgoog#page/n12/mode/2up first page of the Preface] which may be viewed in an alternative edition.
*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/myexperiencesinm00johniala/page/n7 ''My experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills''] by the late Major-General Sir James Johnstone 1896 Archive.dliorg.ernetThe account concerns the period 1873 to the operations in 1885-1886, at the time of the 3rd Burma War.in/handle/2015/279171 * ''Record Of The Service Of The 23rd Bombay Light Infantry During The Campaign In Burma, From July 1886 To May 1888''] by Captain W A M Wilson. Pdf download, Digital Library of India1893. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.279171 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/NotesOnCavalryEmployedInUpperBurmaFromOctober1886ToOctober1887/2.109Heyland#page/n0/mode/2up "Notes on Cavalry Employed in Upper Burma From October 1886 to October 1887"]. Originally from ''History of the Third Burmese War 1885, 1886 and 1887'' (1889) Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No 1, Spring 2004. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/MandalayIn1885-1888TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck/2.111Colbeck2#page/n0/mode/2up "Mandalay in 1885-1888: The Letters of James Alfred Colbeck"] “The present letters include the years 1885-1888, when Colbeck returned to Upper Burma with British forces and served as both mission priest and as acting chaplain for British forces”. Originally from ''Letters from Mandalay, A Series of Letters For the Most Part Written From the Royal City of Mandalay During the Troublous Years of 1878-79; Together with Letters Written During the Last Burmese Campaign of 1885-88'' (1892). Reprinted in ''SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research'', Vol 2, No1, Spring 2004. Archive.org. ([https://archive.org/details/MandalayIn1878-1879TheLettersOfJamesAlfredColbeck 1878-1879 Letters] Archive.org)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr01owngoog#page/n66/mode/2up "The 4th Battalion in Burma 1888-89"] page 51 ''The Rifle Brigade Chronicle'' for 1895 (Sixth Year) 1896 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924022998615?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Hampshire Men (37th Regiment) in Upper Burmah in 1889''] by Lieut-Colonel F Cochran, Commanding 1st Battalion The Hampshire Regiment 1890 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[httphttps://seapdatapapershdl.libraryhandle.cornell.edu/cgi/tnet/text1813/text-idx?c=seap;idno=seap063 57532 ''Military operations in Burma, 1890-1892; letters from J. K. Watson''] Edited by B. R. Pearn. Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1967. The author of the letters was Lieutenant J K Watson, 4th Battalion, [[60th Regiment of Foot|King’s Royal Rifle Corps]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/medalsofbritishn00longrich#page/295/mode/1up "Third Burmese War and Annexation of Burmah 1885-87"], page 295, ''Medals of the British Navy and how they were won'' by W.H. Long 1895 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/otherwayrespectf00forb#page/128/mode/2up "Among the Dacoits"] page 128 ''The other way: respectfully dedicated to all good housewives'' by Ernest Forbes 1899 Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175578 ''The Life Of General Sir Harry N.D. Prendergast''] by Henry M. Vibart 1914. Pdf download from the Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175578 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Sir Harry led the 1885 expedition.
*“A Naval Officer on an Indian Army Staff” by G. A. B. ''The Naval Review'' May 1938 Vol XXVI Issue no 1, pages 75-85 and Issue no. 2, pages 271-282. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170714142901/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-1.pdf Part 1] (scroll down) and [https://web.archive.org/web/20170714142608/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1930s/1938-2.pdf Part 2] (scroll down), now archived pages. During the Burma river war of 1885, the author, G. A. B., was appointed naval aide-de-camp to General Prendergast who was in command.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.66619 ''The Annexation Of Upper Burma''] by D P Singhal 1960 Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
