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*''A History of the Dress of the British Soldier: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time'' by John Luard 1852 [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024191639.0x000001 British Library Digital], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BNdUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books] Based on the same book from the British Library. Includes a chapter [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100024191639.0x000001#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=222&xywh=-1%2C-481%2C3856%2C3767 "The Armies of India"] page 113.
:''The British Army and Auxiliary Forces'' by Colonel C. Cooper-King, late Professor of Tactics, Royal Military College 1893. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84273974/f11.image Volume I], [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84274057/f13.image Volume II] With 132 Illustrations. Gallica gallica.bnf.fr. Catalogued with the subject category "costume militaire", military uniforms.
:''A History of the Uniforms of the British Army'' by by Cecil C P Lawson
:[https://archive.org/details/historyofuniform0000ceci_g6k0/page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume I From the beginnings to 1760''] 1962 reprint, first published 1940. [https://archive.org/details/historyofuniform0000ceci ''Volume II From the beginnings to 1760''] 1963 reprint, first published 1941. [https://archive.org/details/historyofuniform0004ceci/page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume IV''] 1966 [https://archive.org/details/historyofuniform0005ceci/mode/2up ''Volume V''] 1967. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishmilitaryu00lave ''British Military Uniforms''] by James Laver 1948. A short general history with 24 coloured plates, 20 of which are dated before 1850. James Laver was Keeper of the Departments of Prints and Drawings and of Paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1938 until 1959. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
:[https://archive.org/details/britishmilitaryu00carm/page/n7 ''British Military Uniforms from Contemporary Pictures: Henry VII to the present day''] by W Y Carman 1957. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
