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===Locating a regiment===
There are many ways to find out locations at which a regiment was stationed. More labourious methods include tracking through the muster rolls, army lists or station lists published in newspapers. Many of our regiment articles include a timeline of major stations. *One online source providing incomplete but highly useful information, is::[https://web.archive.org/web/20190330085422fw_/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz1.htm Indian portion of ''In Search of the 'Forlorn Hope': A Comprehensive Guide to Locating British Regiments and their Records (1640-WWI)'' by John M Kitzmiller] - lists the location/year of all British regiments that served in India and related regions. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20200507070713/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz.htm Regiments], [https://web.archive.org/web/20190330085628/http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/kitz2.htm Locations]) . From Bob Holland’s Rampais website, archived. Kitzmillers's two volume book is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01010128905
*[https://carlcgsc.libguides.com/Home Ike Skelton Combined Arms Research Library [CARL<nowiki>]</nowiki>] (U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth USA) includes an online collection, the Nafziger Collection of Orders of Battle which includes lists of “Stations of British Troops in India” (and a wider list for the whole army) transcribed from the sources such as the ''Army and Navy Gazette ''.
:To access the contents, there is the [http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p4013coll11/id/1277/rec/3 Nafziger orders of battle collection : finding aid] (link to a pdf download which depending on your browser you may need to locate in your downloads folder) to assist in navigating the titles available for viewing, and the links to those titles.
