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****[https://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/webinar-army-musters-just-accounts/ Webinar: "Army musters – more than just accounts"] by William Spencer 13 February 2014.
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-army-soldiers-after-1913/ Looking for records of a British Army soldier after 1913]
**Additional guides may be located in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/?research-category=military-and-maritime Military and maritime]. , including
***[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/courts-martial-desertion-british-army-17th-20th-centuries/ Courts martial and desertion in the British Army 17th-20th centuries] (More on desertion<ref>Campbell, Jeffrey. [https://www.ancestry.com/boards/topics.Military.uk.britarmy/1379.1.1/mb.ashx Deserters from the British Army in the 1800s] ''Ancestry British Army Message Board'' Scroll down to 21 October 2016. Mention of the book ''Deserted (Volume 1)'' by Jeffrey Campbell, available on Amazon. Further title on cover ''Military Deserters in Eighteenth Century Great Britain 1726-1759''. Retrieved 2 June 2019.</ref>).
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/free-online-records-digital-microfilm/ Free online records: digital microfilm]. Includes a number of records in the WO series, including WO 25, War Office and predecessors Registers; WO 42 War Office: Officers’ Birth Certificates, Wills and Personal Papers; WO65 War Office: Printed Annual Army Lists; WO 76 War Office: Records of Officers’ Services, etc. Download through the record references in the National Archives' Discovery catalogue. Note, only selected records in a series may be available to download. (Note, some of these records may be available online on commercial sites such as Ancestry. For example, a selection of WO 25 records is available on Ancestry, in the dataset "Canada, British Regimental Registers of Service, 1756-1900").
=====British Library Guides=====
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130320010401/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/offpubs/ukofficalpub/servlists/armylist.pdf British Library Guide to Service Lists for the [British<nowiki>]</nowiki> Army, Navy and Air Force], now an archived webpage.
===== Online books=====
*[https://archive.org/details/myancestorwasinb0000watt/mode/2up ''My ancestor was in the British Army : how can I find out more about him?''] by Michael J Watts and Christopher T Watts, 2014 reprint of 2009 edition, first published 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Keep in mind that developments in online records since the last date of publication 2014 will not be covered.
===India Office military records at the British Library===
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