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*[[Commissariat]], or Army Supply. This Department was responsible for elephants.
==Photographs and drawings==
*[httphttps://collections.royalarmouries.org/indexobject/rac-object-1761.php?a=wordsearch&s=gallery&w=elephant+armour&go=GO html Photographs of elephant Elephant armour from 1600] with a [http://www.royalarmouries.org/visit(bargustavan-us/leeds/leedsi-galleries/oriental/visitpil) (17th century -us/leeds/leeds-galleries/oriental/india/single-object/2 description18th century)] Click on Media for additional photographs. Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150319050741/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/px2d10.jpg "An Artillery Elephant on Duty"], hand-coloured lithograph by Captain C. Gold; 1799 from [https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia] Louisiana State University, now archived webpages.*[httphttps://bookscollection.nam.googleac.comuk/booksdetail.php?idacc=6eoFnaqQ0MQC&pg=PA26 1956-08-6-17 An elephant pulling a field gun, 1858] Photograph of by Felice Beato NAM. 1956-08-6-17. National Army Museum. Previously elsewhere identified as a Royal Artillery elephant battery at Lucknow 1858] <ref>''Victoria's Wars'', page 26 by Ian Frederick William Beckett 1998 previously available online on Google Books, now unavailable online. The same </ref>*[httphttps://wwwrepository.namlibrary.acbrown.uk/online-collectionedu/imagesstudio/480item/105000-105999bdr:234081/105876 Charcoal and watercolor drawing: "Indian elephant artillery battery, c.jpg photograph1860"] is also available at the National Army Museum with these [http://www by George Bryant Campion.namBrown Digital Repository.acBrown University Library.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26simpleText%3Dindian%2520mutiny%26themeID%3D%26resultsDisplay%3Dlist%26page%3D6&pos=17&total=299&page=6&acc=1956-08-6-17 details] *[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3907822106/in/photostream Drawing of "Peshawur Mountain train in the line of March 1877"], showing guns loaded on the elephants' backs. flickr.com *[https://www.britishbattles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/16-Elephant-battery.jpg Drawing: Royal Artillery Elephant Battery: Battle of Charasiab] from [http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/charasiab.htm Drawing of "An elephant battery advances through the mountains "] from The Battle of Charasiab "] 6th October 1879, [[2nd Afghan War]] (scroll down) Britishbattles.com
*[http://www.harappa.com/hawkshaw/11.html Photograph of "Elephant Battery 12/9 R.A. in action - Morar Gwalior, 1881"] from Major Hawkshaw’s [http://www.harappa.com/hawkshaw/intro.html India Album] Harappa.com
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924000918486#page/n65/mode/2up Drawing of a "Shaft Elephant of Heavy Field Battery Gun (from the Artillery Manual)"] , between pages lii and liii of the Introduction in ''A manual of the diseases of the elephant and of his management and uses'' by John Henry Steel 1885 Archive.org
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/elephants1880s.jpg Photograph of "The Elephant Battery, Artillery Lines, Peshawar" c.1880's] from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/troops.html this page] of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website
*[http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b25942/ Photograph of "Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellpur, 1895"] with [http://lccn.loc.gov/2004707363 details] Library of Congress
*[http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/16854/lot/339 Photograph Elephant Battery Tirah Campaign 1897] bonhams.com. Click on the small picture to enlarge. From an album of views of the Tirah Campaign. Probably taken at the same time as the following photograph.*[http://books.google.com/books?id=6QXYfAi0FUsC&pg=PA18 Photograph of an elephant battery during the Pathan Revolt 1897], with guns loaded on the elephant backs. ''The British Army on Campaign 4 1882-1902'', page 18 by Michael Barthorp 1988 Google Books
*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=6145 Photograph of "Elephant Battery on Parade, Jhansi, India c 1899"] Staffordshire Past-Track
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150925230931/http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargementstock-photo/rights-managed/HU052533.html /elephant-battery Photograph of "Elephant Battery Gwalior c 1935"] Heavy artillery is transported to a hill station by a team of Indian elephants. Corbis Images. , now an archived webpage, Gwalior was a [[Princely states|Princely State]]* An elephant battery: [http://imgzoomark.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt2n39r2zq/z1&order=2&brand=calisphere kt158026wp Photograph 1] and [http://imgzoomark.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt6199r6rv/z1&order=2&brand=calisphere kt2n39r2zq photograph 2] from [http://content.cdlib.org/search?facet=type-tab&relation=calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu&style=cui&keyword=Military+elephants+india&x=35&y=12 a group of photographs, University of California]. Identified as a British Heavy Battery of around 1895, refer [[Artillery elephants#External links|External links]] below.*[httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20200825055742if_/https://www.superstockabebooks.com/stockRoyal-Artillery-Eastern-Division-photosCampbellpore-imagesCirca/12032399242/1899-24712 bd#&gid=1&pid=1 Photograph: Battery division Royal Artillery, No 12 Eastern Division at Campbellpore, Circa 1895, Showing the Heavy Guns Pulled By Pairs of Elephants], archived webpage.*[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:40_Pounder_RML_-_Elephant_battery,_1900.jpg 40 Pounder Rifled Muzzle Loading (RML) gun of a Royal Artillery elephant c 1895battery, India]. superstockFrom the ''Navy and Army Illustrated'', published 1900. wikimedia.org*[https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-british-indian-army-royal-artillery-elephant-unit-about-1905-88275985. An html British Indian mahout (Army: Royal Artillery elephant handler) dressed in military uniform unit about 1905] and turban sits on the shoulders [https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-british-indian-army-members-of an -a-royal-artillery-elephant working in the Heavy Battery division -battery-88275983.html British Indian Army: Members of the a Royal Artilleryelephant battery about 1905] alamy.com
==Historical books online==
*"Notes on Elephants and their Transport by Railway" by Capt H Wilberforce Clarke RE from ''Professional Papers on Indian Engineering Second Series Volume 8'' 1879 [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n321/mode/1up "Notes on Elephants"], page 243 [http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n369/mode/1up "Report on the Transportation of Elephants by Railway"], page 289
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924000918486#page/n37/mode/2up "The Elephant as used in modern Armies"], page xxvi (Introduction) ''A manual of the diseases of the elephant and of his management and uses'' by John Henry Steel 1885 Archive.org
*This [httphttps://booksarchive.google.comorg/details/ChotaNagpur/page/n327/mode/books1up?id=W0x74TZB3eoC&lpg=PA200&dqq=elephant%20battery&pg=PA200 linkpage] advises an elephant battery at Jhansi was abolished c 1903, and the elephants sold. ''Chota Nagpur, a little-known province of the empire'', page 200 251 by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, 2nd edition 1910, first published 1903, Google Books. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924000361455#page/n199/mode/2up "Chapter XII Elephants"] page 157 ''Army Veterinary Service in War'' by Major-General Sir John Moore AVS 1921 Archive.org
*An elephant story ''Toomai of the Elephants'' from ''The Jungle Book '' may be read online from the page [[Rudyard Kipling#Historical books online|Rudyard Kipling]]. The story is set at the conclusion of the annual hunt for wild elephants, for the Government of India.
==External links==
*Victorian Wars Forum thread<ref>Frogsmile. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131114125457/http://7fd-regt-raa-associationwww.victorianwars.com/Documents/UK%20Artlillery%20terms%20and%20abbreviationsviewtopic.doc Glossary php?f=19&t=6181 Identify details: photos of Royal Artillery. Terms and Abbreviations (Historical and Modern) by Philip Jobsonartillery elephants, India]. Includes the entry ''Bail BatteryVictorian Wars Forum'. These were Heavy Batteries in India in the 1890's comprised of Elephant drawn guns. "At the beginning ot the 20th Century, with the introduction of Breech-Loading guns for the Heavy Batteries29 October 2011, the Elephants and Bullocks were replaced with teams of eight heavy horses" 7fd-regt-raa-associationnow archived.com. Note, this is a download, </ref> by Frogsmile which dates and depending on your browser, you may need to locate in your downloads folder.*identifies two photographs (refer [[https://sites.google.com/site/elephantartillery/ Elephant Artilleryelephants#Photographs and drawings|above]] sites.google) and provides much additional information about elephant batteries.com "The Elephant Batteries were also known as Bail Batteries, Bail being the Hindustani for oxen"
*[http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_majservants_heavies.htm "Heavy Batteries in India"] by Lt-Col Roger Ayers www.kipling.org.uk
*[http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=267290 Thread] about guns carried on elephants' backs. theminiaturespage.com
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2021%20No%206/otherstories.html#story1 Bringing up elephants: 1812 book in the Saraswati Mahal Library] by Pradeep Chakravarthy ''Madras Musings'' Vol. XXI No. 6, July 1-15, 2011
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2022%20No%204/elephants-over-the-centuries.html Elephants over the centuries] by A. Raman ''Madras Musings'' Vol. XXII No. 4, June 1-15, 2012
*Catalogue entry Liddell Hart Military Archives King’s College London [httphttps://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/a-eb/bl65-001 ?searchterms=Block%2C+Col+Arthur+Hugh+1859-1931 Block, Col Arthur Hugh (1859-1931)] Four copy photographs of 9 Western Div (Heavy Bde) and 72 Company (Heavy Bde), Royal Garrison Artillery, in India, showing elephant battery manoeuvres and parade, 1898-1900. Reference code GB0099 KCLMA Block. kingscollections.org. Note the photographs are not available online.
*Newspaper article [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/74479020 "Elephant Artillery. The Most Curious Corps In The British Army"].''The Colac Herald Friday 25 June 1915'' trove.nla.gov.au
*[http://www.cbi-theater.com/elephants/elephants.html "Elephants at war"], by Philip Wynter ''Life'' April 10, 1944. In Burma, World War 2 from [http://www.cbi-theater.com/menu/cbi_home.html "China - Burma - India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II"]
*[https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/mgzs/77/1/article-p37.xml "War Elephants and Early Tanks: A Transepochal Comparison of Ancient and Modern Warfare"] by Alaric Searle. ''Militärgeschichtliche Zeitschrift'' Volume 77: Issue 1 2018. degruyter.com
==References==

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