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*FIBIS database: [httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1135&s_id=340 Registers of Bengal Army European Soldiers] Currently (2017/6/16) consists of IOR/L/MIL/10/122-123, 1790-1839 but additional years are to follow.*FIBIS database: [httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=679&s_id=137 Soldiers’ and Widows’ Pension details -1896] IOR/ L/MIL/14/214 & 215. Includes previous members of the Bengal,[[Madras Army|Madras]] and [[Bombay Army|Bombay Armies]], including men from the [[Unattached List]]. May also include a few members of the [[Indian Army]] which officially was formed in 1895. These records are available on LDS microfilm 2029979 Items 1-2 ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/774116 catalogue entry]), however the FIBIS database record contains all the information available in the microfilm.<ref>Bailey, Peter . [https://listsweb.rootswebarchive.comorg/web/20210121072123/hyperkittyhttps:/list/india@mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread/=785900/ Army Records] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 20 March 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2018, archived.</ref>*FIBIS database: [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2159list_sources&s_idsource_class=1117 407 Applications for Cadetships in the EIC Armies (Index)] includes Bengal Army. These are records for officers.*FIBIS database: [httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=152&s_id=39 List of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758-1834] Index to book of same name by V. C .P. Hodson, 4 vols. Recommended on [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Military_reading_list#HEIC_armies Fibiwiki Military Reading List]. Also see Books, below.*FIBIS database: [https://searchfibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1305 Alphabetical List of the Officers of the Bengal Army from 1760 to 1834] compiled by Dodwell and Miles. Also see Books below.*FIBIS database: [http://fibis.org/frontisourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=378&s_id=14 War Services of Officers of the Bengal Army 1863]. Transcriptions from the book ''Ubique : War Services of all the Officers of HM's Bengal Army'' by Thomas C Anderson 1863. This book is available online on a pay website, and on LDS microfilm 2105290 Item 2 ([https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/819733?availability=Family%20History%20Library catalogue entry]), however Peter Bailey has advised the FIBIS database record contains all the information available in the microfilm.

'''Main article: [[East India Company Army]]''' Includes details of Embarkation records.

:'''FamilySearch''' ([[LDS]] (Mormons)) have filmed many of these records, most of which are now available as digitised microfilm. [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/search Search the FamilySearch catalogue] by entering keywords such as Bengal Army. In particular, [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/695515 “Registers of Bengal Army European soldiers, 1788-1860”] and [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/644896 “Bengal Army muster rolls and casualty returns, 1716-1860”] are available.:'''Note''': Microfilm ordering services ceased September 2017, however selected most microfilms have been digitised and are currently available for viewing on a FamilySearch computer at a FamilySearch Centre or FamilySearch Affiliate Library. Locate these records through the FamilySearch catalogue. It is expected that in time all microfilms will be similarly available in this format. See '''[[FamilySearch Centres]]''' for '''viewing details'''.

*:FIBIS has transcribed the indexes of these books, which are available on the [httpshttp://searchfibis.fibisourarchives.org/frontisonline/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=152&s_id=39 FIBIS database]. *:The [[LDS]] (Mormon) Family History Library filmed the above books ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/281774 catalogue entry]), which currently (2018/09) are only partially now available as digitised microfilm. It had been recommended that all three LDS films be viewed, as there is a lot of cross referencing. <ref>Murphy, Sylvia . [https://listsweb.rootswebarchive.comorg/web/20210121072018/hyperkittyhttps:/list/india@mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread/=12901327/ ''Author - Major VCP Hodson''] Scroll down. ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 11 Sept 2000. Retrieved 6 September 2018, archived.</ref> See [[FamilySearch Centres]] for access information. However, while ever online versions of the volumes are available, it is unlikely the microfilms will need to be consulted.*''Ubique: War Services of Officers of the Bengal Army'' by T.C. Anderson, originally published 1863, is available in reprint editions,<refname=Ubi>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/ubiquewar-services-of-all-the-officers-of-h-m-s-bengal-army-1863/ ''Ubique: War Services of Officers of the Bengal Army''] by T.C. Anderson 1863. Naval and & Military Press], reprint.</ref><ref> [http://www.savannahpublications.com/info.php?itemid=99 Savannah Publications], London. </ref> and online on a pay website, refer below. Note data from this book is available on the FIBIS database, refer [[Bengal Army#Fibis resources|above]].

*''Ubique: War Services of Officers of the Bengal Army'' by T.C. Anderson, was originally published 1863in Calcutta, in a limited edition of 150 copies<ref>[https://primoa.library.unsw.edu.au/permalink/f/ri8pk2/UNSW_ALMA21145135290001731 UNSW Library catalogue]</ref> with 668 pages including eleven appendices, and provides service and biographical details of the British Officers of the Bengal Army serving in 1861. It is available in a reprint edition from Naval & Military Press, <ref name=Ubi/> ("It is an essential source of information to supplement Major Hodson’s four volumes") which is in turn available on the Ancestry owned [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsp9fW0AfE pay website fold3] located in International/Military Books/India. Note data from this book is available on the FIBIS database, refer [[Bengal Army#Fibis resources|above]].:''Ubique: War Services...'' is also available as a FamilySearch digitised microfilm, [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/819733 catalogue entry], viewable at a [[FamilySearch Centres|FamilySearch Centre]] or FamilySearch Affiliate Library. This appears to be a microfilm of a 1985 reprint edition.*[https://archive.org/details/narrativemutiny00stragoog/page/n6/mode/2up ''Narrative of the Mutiny of the Officers of the Army in Bengal in the year 1766''] by Henry Strachey, Secretary to Lord Clive during his last Expedition to India, and lately given in Evidence to the Secret Committee of the House of Commons. 1773 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.3463/mode/2up ''Soldiering in India 1764-1787: extracts from journals and letters left by Lt. Colonel Allen Macpherson and Lt. Colonel John Macpherson of the East India Company's Service''] by William Charles Macpherson, formerly of the Indian Civil Service. 1928. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi].*[https://archive.org/details/travelsofdeanmah0000maho/mode/2up ''The Travels of Dean Mahomet: An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India''] Edited with an introduction and biographical essay by Michael H. Fisher 1997. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Born 1759, Born 1759, Dean Mahomet appears to have become part of the Bengal Army 1769 after meeting a British Officer. **[https://archive.org/details/travelsofdeanmah0000maho/page/44/mode/2up Letter V] In 1771 troops are mobilised against the Marathas, page 44. Dean Mahomet would then have been age 12.:[http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft4h4nb20n/ Transcribed version] cdlib.org:Originally published as [https://archive.org/details/b28742898 ''The Travels of Dean Mahomet, A Native of Patna in Bengal, Through Several Parts of India, While in the Service of The Honourable The East India Company Written by Himself, In a Series of Letters to a Friend''] 1794. Volumes I And II in one digital file [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/194/mode/2up Volume II]; [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/n27/mode/2up Contents, Vol. I], [https://archive.org/details/b28742898/page/196/mode/2up Contents, Vol. II] Archive.org.

:[httphttps://hdldspace.gipe.ac.in/xmlui/handle.net/10973/22964 ''Clothing regulations of the Bengal Army''] Calcutta Gazette office, Calcutta 1855. Link to a pdf, Digital Repository of GIPE (Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics [Pune India]). Clothing regulations are in respect of soldiers ("other ranks"), not officers, (who have dress regulations).

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38444 ''From Sepoy to Subadar: Being the Life and Adventures of a Native Officer of the Bengal Army Written And Related By Himself'']. 3rd edition 1911, edited by Lieutenant-Colonel D. C. Phillott. Translated and first published by Lieutenant-Colonel Norgate, Bengal Staff Corps at Lahore, 1873. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. :[https://archive.org/details/fromsepoytosubed0000unse/mode/2up 1988 reprint of 1970 edition] title ''From sepoy to subedar : being the life and adventures of Subedar Sita Ram, a native officer of the Bengal Army written and related by himself'' edited by James Lunt, illustrated by Frank Wilson. Archive.org Books to Borrow.:Article about the book: [http://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/chronicles-of-sita-ram-112101300054_1.html "Chronicles of Sita Ram"] by Bhupesh Bhandari October 13, 2012 ''Business Standard''. The author enlisted in 1812 and retired in 1860. "There has been a great debate amongst historians about the authenticity of Sita Ram’s accounts... [but It] is a fantastic insider’s account of life in the battlefields and the barracks".