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*[http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/home.html The Army Children Archive (TACA)] contains information about children and wives, with themes such as [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/accomm.html Accommodation] and [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/move.html On the Move]. [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/history.html History Matters] (scroll down) gives details of the enlistment of an orphan boy age five,the son of a soldier, as a drummer in 1786. There are references to India in a number of the themes. [http://www.archhistory.co.uk/taca/accompicsind.html Accommodation Album: India]
*[http://www.royalengineers.ca/femnkid.html On the Strength: Wives and Children of the British Army], a Canadian website. Some of the information, particularly in respect of physical work performed, may not be applicable to India.
*[http://www.victorianforts.co.uk/tommyatkins.htm Tommy Atkins]. A series of five articles including "The Domestic Life of Tommy Atkins", "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 [http://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 . ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OCl-4IMEZ3IJ:www.victorianforts.co.uk/tommyatkins.htm+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)
*[http://royalartillery1815.co.uk/index.php?page=british-soldiers-wives British Soldiers' Wives in the Napoleonic Era] Royalartillery1815.co.uk
*[http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php?title=Enlistment_of_Boy_Soldiers_in_the_British_Army,_1795-1959 Enlistment of Boy Soldiers in the British Army, 1795-1959] Your Archives
*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://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/documents/Heritage-Chapter.pdf pdf]<ref>[http://www.nuigalway.ie/geography/documents/Heritage-Chapter.pdf "A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness"] 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.</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 html version], [http://www.militaryarchives.ie/fileadmin/user_upload/documents/Information_Document_on_the_Irish_Regiments_of_the_British_Army.pdf pdf version]
*[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. [http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/16.html His Story, His Words Part Four] (scroll down), [http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/17.html Part Five], [http://jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/18.html Part Six] Includes photographs. Family website.([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ndr41UqPklwJ:www.jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/16.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached 4], [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VUV_Dr2_RuQJ:jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/17.html+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au cached 5], [http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LMQDwmoU1JYJ:jameshenrymiller.petermillerphotoworld.co.uk/18.html+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au cached 6] URLs)*[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.([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9BDKXd8louQJ:www.davidhorsfield.org.uk/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)
*[http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/HORSE_TRANSPORT.pdf "British Army Horse Transport"] by Clive Elliott 2008 hmvf.co.uk
*Military reasons for the expansion of the railways are explained in [http://www.essaysinhistory.com/articles/2011/5 "“Fire-Carriages” of the Raj: The Indian Railway and its Rapid Development in British India"] by Amit K. Sharma 2010<ref>[http://www.essaysinhistory.com/articles/2011/5 “Fire-Carriages” of the Raj: The Indian Railway and its Rapid Development in British India”] by Amit K. Sharma 2010 ''Essays In History. Annual Journal of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia''
