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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportarmymedic07unkngoog#page/n261/mode/1up "Case of Sword-Bayonet Wound of the Abdomen"] (following attack by a fellow soldier at Meerut in 1878 (or 1877?) by Surgeon Major FA Turton MD, Army Medical Department. In Medical Charge of 2/60 Rifles, page 239 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1877 Volume 19'' published 1879 Archive.org
*:From the Findmypast database, which you must be signed in to view the following article from the 1914 ''Large Game Shooting in Thibet and the North WestChronicle'' by Alexander Kinloch, .:[[Rifle Brigade]] and later King’s Royal Rifle Corpshttps://search.findmypast. ''Part I'' 1869, ''Part II'' 1876co. Later editions have titles…''uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0022 "Shikar in Thibet, India"] by various officers of the Himalayas4th Battalion, and Northern in India'' (1885) from December 1909. Commences page 27 and … ''describes Shooting in Thibet, the Himalayas, Northern and Central India'' (1892)Sunderbunds; :[https://search.findmypast.co. uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0025 A Day with the Peshawar Vale Hounds] page 33:[https://bookssearch.googlefindmypast.comco.auuk/booksrecord?id=aUcCAAAAQAAJ&pgs2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0029 Falconry and Hawking] page 38:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=PR3 ''Part I''s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0032 Pig-sticking] 1869 Google Books; page 43:[httphttps://hdlsearch.handlefindmypast.netco.uk/2027record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0034 Markhor] page 47. Mountain wild goat/hvdsheep:[https://search.hnb61rfindmypast.co.uk/record?urlappendid=s2%3Bseq2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0037 Big Game Shooting in Burma] page 52:[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=11 ''Part II''s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0039 Blackbuck] 1876 Hathi Trust Digital Library; page 57:[https://archivesearch.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0041 Urial and Chinkara] page 60.orgUrial=wild sheep:[https://detailssearch.findmypast.co.uk/largegameshootin00kinl Revised edition 1885record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0043 Chakor] Archivepage 65. Chakor=type of bird.:[https://search.findmypast.co.org; uk/record?id=s2%2fgbm%2fkrrc%2f1914%2f0044 “Small Game”] page 67*[https://archive.org/details/largegameshooti02kinlgoog 3rd editionbriefhistoryofki00inhutt/page/n5/mode/2up ''A Brief History of the King's Royal Rifle Corps''] edited by Lieut.-General Sir Edward Hutton. Reprinted from the ''King’s Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle'' of 1911, revised and enlarged 1892] published 1912. Archive.org.*:[https://archive.org/details/innermostasiatra00cobbiala briefhistoryofki00hutt/page/n3/mode/2up ''Innermost Asia : travel & sport in A Brief History of the PamirsKing's Royal Rifle Corps, 1755 to 1915''] by Ralph P Cobbold (late 60th Rifles) 1900 2nd edition 1917. Archive.org.
→British Library holdings
==Service in India==
1st Battalion.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20071216091046/http://regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/060-1.htm Archived website regiments.org]</ref>
*1845 - Arrived in India
*1848 - Sikh War
*1857-58 - Indian Mutiny (where 2nd Battalion also present)
*1860 Returned to Uk.
A post from the Victorian Wars Forum provided the following details in respect of the 4th Battalion<ref> No longer available Victorian Wars Forum post dated 18 July 2012 <nowiki>http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=7269#p31207</nowiki></ref>
*"2 Nov 1876 - 4th Bn sailed from Queenstown (having been serving in Dublin) on HMS Serapis
==British Library holdings==
*''Annals Of The King’s Royal Rifle Corps'' in seven volumesand an Appendix (total 8 volumes), published from 1913. Volumes 1-3 by Lewis Butler. The first seven volumes are available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096753 .** Appendix by S. M. Milne and Major-General Astley Terry, published 1913 dealing with uniform, armament and equipment. ** Volume 3 1830-1873, published 1926.** ''Annals Of The King’s Royal Rifle Corps: Vol 4 'The K.R.R.C.' 18721873-19131914'' by Major-Gen. Sir Steuart Hare. Originally published 1929. The Fourth Battalion took part in colonial campaigns in India and Burma in the 1890s.**Volume 5 ''The Great War'' by Sir Steuart Hare, published 1932.**Volume 6 1921-1943 by G.H. Mills and R.F. Nixon, published 1971.**Volume 7 1943-1965 by Major General G H Mills. Published by Celer Et Audax Club 1979. ISBN: 0950667609. (Details <ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210830113112/https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/annals-kings-royal-rifle-corps-vol-282159074 Worthpoint.com], archived.</ref>). Does not appear in the British Library catalogue.
==Regimental journal==
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20140211055955/http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/DRAMATIC-ESCAPE-BOMB-ATTACK/story-20595152-detail/story.html "Bygones: Dramatic escape from Indian assassination bid"] February 10, 2014 ''Derby Telegraph'', now an archived webpage. An accounts of the attempted assassination of Lord Hardinge on the occasion of his state entry into Delhi in 1912 from a letter written by Bugler George King of the 3rd Battalion King's Royal Rifles, brother of Albert King, above.
===Historical books online===
*''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/stream/entericfeverinin00roberich#page/240/mode/1up Enteric fever in the 4/60th Regiment c 1877] page 240 ''Enteric fever in India and in other tropical and sub-tropical regions : a study in epidemiology and military hygiene'' by Ernest Roberts, Major Indian Medical Service 1906 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reportarmymedic07unkngoog#page/n261/mode/1up "Case of Sword-Bayonet Wound of the Abdomen"] (following attack by a fellow soldier at Meerut in 1878 (or 1877?) by Surgeon Major FA Turton MD, Army Medical Department. In Medical Charge of 2/60 Rifles, page 239 ''Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1877 Volume 19'' published 1879 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/regimentalchroni00walluoft#page/n9/mode/2up ''A regimental chronicle and list of officers of the 60th, or the King's Royal Rifle Corps, formerly the 62nd, or the Royal American Regiment of Foot''] by Nesbit Willoughby Wallace 1879 Archive.org
*[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, King’s Royal Rifle Corps
*[https://archive.org/details/innermostasiatra00cobbiala ''Innermost Asia : travel & sport in the Pamirs''] by Ralph P Cobbold (late 60th Rifles) 1900 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/kingsroyalrifle00commgoog#page/n10/mode/2up ''The King's Royal Rifle Corps Chronicle'' 1904] Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/kingsroyalrifle00commgoog#page/n38/mode/2up Battalions and their Stations 1756-1904]. The 2nd Battalion were stationed at [[Rawal Pindi]] from 1902
: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.
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