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*FIBIS database: [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/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: [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/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://web.archive.org/web/20210121072123/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=785900 Army Records] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 20 March 2012, archived.</ref>
*FIBIS database: [httphttps://search.fibis.ourarchives.onlineorg/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: [http://fibis.ourarchives.online/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://fibis.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.ourarchives.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 catalogue entry]), however Peter Bailey has advised the FIBIS database record contains all the information available in the microfilm.
*"Edward Squibb-Letters from a Bengal Cadet" by Charles Gordon Clark ''FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)'' pages 15-24. Edward Squibb arrived in 1820. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
==Records==
'''Main article: [[East India Company Army]]''' Includes details of Embarkation records.
===British Library===
:*'''L/MIL/10/301-326''' Bengal Army Discharges, 1820-1882. The FamilySearch [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/644811 catalogue] provides additional information about these records: "Between 1859-1861 the EIC European forces (of which the Bengal Army was a part of) were transferred to the British Army. Discharge papers are for those men who chose to take an unpensioned discharge rather than be transferred into the regular British Army".
:'''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 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. See '''[[FamilySearch Centres]]''' for '''viewing details'''.
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/6676bb2e-0366-44b1-8068-b31d156396d2 Military Department Library: Bengal Army '''IOR/L/MIL/17/2'''] 1791-1903 includes
*[https://archive.org/details/indianarmyunifor00carm/page/n7 ''Indian Army Uniforms under the British from the 18th century to 1947: Cavalry''] by W Y Carman 1961. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes a [https://archive.org/details/indianarmyunifor00carm/page/232 Regimental index, page 232].
: ''Indian Army Uniforms'' by W Y Carman 1969. Full title: ''Indian Army Uniforms under the British from the 18th century to 1947 : Artillery, Engineers and Infantry''. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.131698 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Note: Original colour plates are in black and white and most illustrations are of poor quality.
:[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/authenticabstrac00bengiala ''Authentic Abstracts of Minutes in the Supreme Council of Bengal, on the late contracts for draught and carriage bullocks, for victualling the European troops, and for victualling Fort William : the augmentation of General Sir Eyre Coote's appointment, and continuation of Brigadier-General Stibbert's emoluments, though superseded in the chief command : and a remarkable treaty, offensive and defensive, with the Ranah of Gohud, a Marratta''] 1780 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-continuation-or-supp_east-india-company-army_1799_1/mode/2up ''The Code of Military Standing Regulations of the Bengal Establishment''] compiled by Captain Henry Grace 1791. Archive.org. (Note, catalogued as Volume 1 of the following title)
:[https://archive.org/details/bim_eighteenth-century_the-continuation-or-supp_east-india-company-army_1799_2/mode/2up ''The Continuation or Supplement, of The Code of Bengal Military Regulations''] by Captain Henry Grace 1799. Archive.org
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IZFeAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The New Regulations for the Bengal Army ; According to the Minutes of the Council and General Orders Issued in Fort William During the Months of May and June 1796''] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yWIUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP9 ''An historical account of the rise and progress of the Bengal Native Infantry, from its first formation in 1757, to 1796 when the present regulations took place, together with a detail of the services on which the several battalions have been employed''] by the late Captain John Williams, Bengal Army, 1817 Google Books. The following coloured illustrations have been noted: [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yWIUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP8 Subadar], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yWIUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA170-IA2 Grenadier Sepoy], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yWIUAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA330-IA2 Light Infantry Sepoy]
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.111320/page/n1 ''(Military Series) Vol.21 1797-1800''] Edited by Sita Ram Kohli. 1968. Letters to and from the Military Department
**Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01009529821 which includes (Military series) v. 19. 1787-1791 ed. by B. Prasad.
*[https://archive.org/details/journalofsociety0002soci_g6u6/page/130/mode/2up "The Baraset Cadet College, East Indies"] by Major V Hodson, Indian Army (Retired List] page 130 ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. Vol. 2 : 1923'', reprint edition 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available in [https://archive.org/details/journal-of-the-society-for-army-historical-research-vol-1-1921-vol-2-1923/page/129/mode/2up another version Archive.org]. Also available [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44232059 Jstor.org version], register and read for free. (Limit per month applies). Located 16 miles from Calcutta, the Baraset College was inaugurated towards the end of 1803, closed 1803-1805 during the Mahratta War, reopened 1806 and finally closed 1 September 1811 due to the bad behaviour of many of the students.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=lYTcRScE2JQC&pg=PR1 ''Inquiry into the state of the Indian Army : with suggestions for its improvement and the establishment of a military police for India''] by Walter Badenach, Captain Bengal Army 1826 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=scJCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 ''A collection of facts and documents relative to batta, &c. with other pending questions concerning the Indian Army, compiled from the proceedings of the East India officers A.D. 1793 to 1796, the general orders and other official sources; with short arguments and marginal notes for current use'']. Calcutta , Samuel Smith and Co. 1829 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=lYQIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''First Annual Report of the Sanitary Commission for Bengal, 1864-65''] Google Books. Mainly in respect of the Army
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/medicalandsanit00unkngoog#page/n4/mode/1up ''Medical And Sanitary Report of the Native Army of Bengal for the year 1875''] Archive.org
*[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".
*''Memoir of the late Lieut.-Colonel Richard Scott (From his Private Journals)'' from ''The Naval and Military Magazine Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4'' 1827-1828 Google Books
:[http://books.google.com/books?id=sIQEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA147 Part 1– Appointed 1768], [http://books.google.com/books?id=sIQEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA382 Part 2- Sir Eyre Coote's Campaigns of 1781, 1782, and 1783], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hZoMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA49 Part 3- Campaigns in India –includes General Stuart's Operations; General Goddard's March; and the Proceedings of the Bombay Army and its Government], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hZoMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA396 Part 4- includes Popham’s Capture of Gwalior; General Goddard’s Operations, Campaigns of Lord Cornwallis, Siege of Bangalore], [http://books.google.com/books?id=PYcEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA4 Part 5 March to Seringapatum], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upkMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA12 Part 6], [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upkMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA353 Part 7]
