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:Restricted access: Available from 1901 to viewers in North America and some other countries from Hathi Trust, catalogue entries [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100535265 1] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000533721 2], and Google Books
:[[Findmypast]], pay website, includes a database "King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1900-1920",<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/kings-royal-rifle-corps-chronicle-1900-1920 King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle 1900-1920] findmypast</ref> located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records, 1901 to 1920 with gaps for 1915 and 1919. This database is searchable, (by name or keyword) with the search result showing a page of the ''Chronicle'' (and if required adjoining pages). It is possible browse the various editions, although it is a slow process. From the findmypast page, "Browse Title" and select a year, then click on Search (leaving all details blank). This will bring up a long list of all pages for that year. Once you have selected a page, you can scroll to the previous, or next page, using buttons located near the top of the findmypast page. If you need to increase the size of the pages in order to read them you may need to download (button near the top of the findmypast page) but this must be done page by page.
:From the Findmypast database, which you must be signed in to view the following article from the 1914 ''Chronicle''.
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0022 "Shikar in India"] by various officers of the 4th Battalion, in India from December 1909. Commences page 27 and describes Shooting in the Sunderbunds;
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0025 A Day with the Peshawar Vale Hounds] page 33
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0029 Falconry and Hawking] page 38
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0032 Pig-sticking] page 43
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0034 Markhor] page 47. Mountain wild goat/sheep
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0037 Big Game Shooting in Burma] page 52
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0039 Blackbuck] page 57
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0041 Urial and Chinkara] page 60. Urial=wild sheep
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0043 Chakor] page 65. Chakor=type of bird.
:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0044 “Small Game”] page 67
*''Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North West'' by Alexander Kinloch, [[Rifle Brigade]] and later King’s Royal Rifle Corps. ''Part I'' 1869, ''Part II'' 1876. Later editions have titles…''in Thibet, the Himalayas, and Northern India'' (1885) and … ''in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India'' (1892). [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aUcCAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3 ''Part I''] 1869 Google Books; [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnb61r?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Part II''] 1876 Hathi Trust Digital Library; [https://archive.org/details/largegameshootin00kinl Revised edition 1885] Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/largegameshooti02kinlgoog 3rd edition, revised and enlarged 1892] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/innermostasiatra00cobbiala ''Innermost Asia : travel & sport in the Pamirs''] by Ralph P Cobbold (late 60th Rifles) 1900 Archive.org
