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*[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/25735/pages/4755 Official correspondence in the ''London Gazette'' Friday 2 September 1887] Includes lists of those (mainly officers) mentioned as having rendered specially good service
*[http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/25993/pages/6057 "Field Operations, Burma"] ''London Gazette'' November 15, 1889 page 6057. Covers the period 31 March 1888 to 31 March 1889.
*[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.
*[http://seapdatapapers.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=seap;idno=seap063 ''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/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
*[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
*''The Life Of General Sir Harry N.D. Prendergast'' by Henry M. Vibart 1914 may be read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. Sir Harry led the 1885 expedition.
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