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**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/podcasts/sahib.htm Sahib, the British soldier in India, 1750 – 1914] by Professor Richard Holmes
*Recruiting regions of Irish infantry regiments in the British Army from 1881 until 1922. A list of regiments, depots, counties together with a map. Select page 5 of this [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuigalway.ie%2Fgeography%2Fdocuments%2FHeritage-Chapter.pdf docs.google version] or [http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/documents/Heritage-Chapter.pdf pdf]<ref>[[http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nuigalway.ie%2Fgeography%2Fdocuments%2FHeritage-Chapter.pdf "A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness"] (docs.google version) by John Morrissey, 2005 , Chapter 3 of ''Ireland’s Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity'' edited by M Mc Carthy 2005. Website: Geography Dept, National University of Ireland, Galway. [http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/documents/Heritage-Chapter.pdf original pdf]</ref>
*"Information Document on the Irish Regiments of the British Army up to 31st July 1922". Irish Military Archives Dublin [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:gru7mwoB39wJ:www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Information_Document_on_the_Irish_Regiments_of_the_British_Army.pdf+East+India+Company+Army+Officer+transferred+to+British+Army&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgCmZns12hkE99NCTwYnZKxBIa4CjLHDnw00dDl-G-8dtP1fL8-uTOAW7hmuWptxLNBj6KyIKcTQks7CUK3bSgfr0dHI1OD9SJBPt_WF5uJfUQv6u4xXrgLdcVyfwHGhwNS1tiQ&sig=AHIEtbQcITGpWlwjYSS1F9kR0LlOKkmu4A docs.google version], [http://www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Information_Document_on_the_Irish_Regiments_of_the_British_Army.pdf original pdf] *[http://www.reenactor.ru/ARH/PDF/Karsten.pdf "Irish Soldiers in the British Army 1792-1922: Suborned or Subordinate?"] by Peter Karsten ''Journal of Social History Volume 17 No. 1 (Autumn 1983)'' pages 31-64
*[http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/index.html James Henry Miller], born 1910. He was in India October 1932-1935 with the [[2nd Bombay (European) Fusiliers|2nd Battalion, Durham Light Infantry]]. His memories of daily life in a regiment performing garrison duties. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131114013901/http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/16.html His Story, His Words Part Four] (scroll down), [https://web.archive.org/web/20131114014056/http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/17.html Part Five], [https://web.archive.org/web/20131114014327/http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/18.html Part Six] Includes photographs. Family website. (archived links)
*[http://www.davidhorsfield.org.uk/index.asp ''From Semaphore to Satellite The memoirs of Major General David Horsfield, Royal Signals''] may be read online. He served in Burma during World War 2 and was then in India 1942-1946.
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