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*[http://cgi.ebay.com/Military-India-Elephants-Heavy-Field-Battery-1892-print-/300421854059?pt=Art_Prints&hash=item45f289b36b Drawing of "The Elephants of the Heavy Field Battery 1892"] (scroll down for enlarged version) Ebay.com. Originally from ''The Graphic'' 1892
*[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://indiasfirstwarofindependance1857.blogspot.com/2010/09/elephant-heavy-field-battery-at-mhow.html Photograph of an elephant heavy field battery at Mhow,1897] Indiasfirstwarofindependance1857.blogspot.com
* An elephant battery: [http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt2n39r2zq/z1&order=2&brand=calisphere Photograph 1] and [http://imgzoom.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt6199r6rv/z1&order=2&brand=calisphere 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.
*Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=7023#p31219 post] with a number of images of Army elephants
*[http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1899-24712 Photograph: Battery division elephant c 1895]. superstock.com. An Indian mahout (elephant handler) dressed in military uniform and turban sits on the shoulders of an elephant working in the Heavy Battery division of the Royal Artillery.
==Historical books online==
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=V50bAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA451 extract] includes wording from a 1784 book<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=YncIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA239 ''The History of Ayder Ali Khan, Nabob-Bahader: or, New Memoirs Concerning the East Indies. Volume 1''], page 239 by M. M. D. L. T. 1784 Google Books</ref> and refers to the skill of the elephants in the Army of Hyder Ali. "It can hardly be imagined how useful these elephants are, nor with what skill and intelligence they do their work". "Baggage of the Indian Army" ''Calcutta Review, Volume 11 January-June 1849'', page 445
