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**[http://www.davidhorsfield.org.uk ''From Semaphore to Satellite: The memoirs of Major General David Horsfield, Royal Signals''] He served in Burma in 1942 during World War 2 and was then in India 1942-1946.
*[http://www.littlehamptonfort.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Kings-Shilling-3.pdf "The King’s Shilling: Life in army barracks 1855-1871"] in England. littlehamptonfort.co.uk.
*[https://www.jstor.org/stable/44230867 "Beyond The Queen's Shilling: Reflections on the Pay of Other Ranks in the Victorian British Army"] by Cameron Pulsifer, ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Volume 80, 2002, pages 326-334. A comparative survey of rates of military and civilian pay, 1860-1900. Read online for free on the website Jstor.org, subject to registration with Jstor.org, and restrictions apply. For more details about Jstor, and the restrictions, see the page [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Alternatively you may be able to log in with a Library card.
*[https://www.victorianforts.co.uk/tommyatkins.htm Tommy Atkins]. A series of five articles including [https://www.victorianforts.co.uk/flipbook/atkinsdomestic/index.html#p=1 "The Domestic Life of Tommy Atkins"], [https://www.victorianforts.co.uk/flipbook/atkinsmarried/index.html#p=1 "Tommy Atkins Married"], about aspects of life in the Army in the late Victorian period.<ref> Originally published in ''The Redan'', journal of The Palmerston Forts Society, three articles by Duncan Williams , (originally published in 1999-2001 (issues 46, 50, 53)) and two articles by David Moore (issues 72,74). From the website [https://www.victorianforts.co.uk/index.htm Victorian Forts and Artillery].</ref> These articles in turn include quotes from a series of articles which appeared in ''Navy and Army Illustrated'' commencing in June 1898 which gave insight into the life of an ordinary soldier.
*[https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/4359 ''Tommy Atkins, War Office Reform and the Social and Cultural Presence of the Late-Victorian Army in Britain, c.1868-1899''] by Edward Peter Joshua Gosling 2016 Doctorate Thesis Plymouth University. “This thesis will examine the public and political treatment of the soldier in the late-nineteenth century and question how far the conflicting ideas of soldier-hero and soldier-beggar were reconciled”. Plymouth University website.
