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*[http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/HU052533.html Photograph of "Elephant Battery Gwalior c 1935"] Heavy artillery is transported to a hill station by a team of Indian elephants. Corbis Images
* 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
==Historical books online==
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=Vvlt8tdRrf0C&pg=PA9 An elephant tale, 1858] ''Round-about Rambles in Lands of Fact and Fancy by Frank Richard Stockton'', page 9, first published 1872 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=rncDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191 "Notes on elephant carriage and steel mountain batteries employed in Abyssinia"], page 191 an Appendix to "The Abyssinian Expedition" pages 167-202 ''Minutes of proceedings of the Royal artillery institution, Volume 6'' 1870 Google Books
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/professionalpap02brangoog#page/n321/mode/1up "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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=W0x74TZB3eoC&lpg=PA200&dq=elephant%20battery&pg=PA200 link] 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 by Francis Bradley Bradley-Birt, first published 1903, Google Books.
