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*FIBIS database: [http://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=147&s_id=13 Registers of Bombay Army European Soldiers 1793-1860]. These are the full copies of the records taken from the British Library records,IOR/L/MIL/12/109-116, refer below
*FIBIS database: [http://search.fibis.org/frontis/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 Army|Bengal]], [[Madras Army|Madras]] and 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 with [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/show?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcatalog-search-api%3A8080%2Fwww-catalogapi-webservice%2Fitem%2F774116 catalogue entry], however the FIBIS database record contains all the information available in the microfilm
*"Searching for Gopal Drooge and the Murder of Captain William Richardson" by Tim Willasey- Wilsey ''FIBIS Journal Number 31 (Spring 2014) '' pages 16-25''. For access, see [[FIBIS Journals]]
:Gopal Drooge is identified as the modern Kabbal Durga. The murders took place in September 1783 when thirteen officers from the Bombay Army, including Captain Richardson of the [[3rd Bombay Sepoys]] and four officers from the British Army were killed on the orders of Tipu Sultan.
*"The Memoirs of John Norton of the Bombay Mint" by Joan Harrison ''FIBIS Journal Number 34 (Autumn 2015)'' pages 18-26.
:John Norton left England in November 1819 for Bombay, as an artilleryman in the Bombay Artillery. He was appointed to the Gun Carriage Manufactory and subsequently became a Sub Conductor of Ordnance. He was subsequently appointed to the Bombay Mint, where he was required to resign from the Army.
::For details of how to access these articles, see [[FIBIS Journals]].
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