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==British Library holdings==
*''Annual report of the Calcutta Light Horse''. Holdings: 1st (1887/88)-9th (1895/96). Wanting: 4th (1890/91)
*''Gallop : the journal of the Calcutta Light Horse''. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1932)-v. 4, no. 4 (Aug. 1939)
*''Calcutta Light Horse. A.F.I. 1759-1881-1947''. [With plates.] 1957
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_2&cid=452#452 Typescript history of the Calcutta Light Horse] , written c1938, by Ralph Kington Hewetson Brice, Bengal Covenanted Pilot Service 1929-c1947; with brief biographies of three officers of the Calcutta Light Horse. '''Mss Eur C714'''
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_4&cid=221#221 Papers and photographs of Norman D Harris], ICI (India) 1927-58, Company Chairman 1950-57, including three copies of 'Gallop', dated 1944-46, the Journal of the Calcutta Light Horse, and miscellaneous material relating to business in Bengal. '''Mss Eur D1050'''
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_18&cid=353#353 ''Brief Memoirs of a 'Box Wallah''']: copy of memoir by Lt-Cdr Brian David Hadlow (1911-81), describing his experiences of working in Calcutta for the shipping firm Turner Morrison and Company 1933-39, service with Calcutta Light Horse, and life as an officer of the Royal Indian Navy Volunteer Reserve 1939-45. '''Mss Eur Photo Eur 241'''
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*[http://www.fibis.org/archives/166/ Fibis Podcast 'The lure of Indigo - and how the Hills family of East Bengal won three VCs'] FIBIS podcast by Miles Macnair in which he also talks about his ancestors involvment with the Calcutta Light Horse.
*[http://www.gallery.fibis.org/index.php?/tags/405-calcutta_light_horse Photographs of Calcutta Light Horse - 1936- 1940]Metcalfe and Makin collection on FIBIS Gallery
==National Army Museum holdings==
==External links=*[http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1419065189894&vid=IAMS_VU2 Searchable British Libraray Catalogue]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcutta_Light_Horse Calcutta Light Horse] Wikipedia
*[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050821/asp/calcutta/story_5128357.asp The legend of a liquor stop (Part 1)] and [http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050828/asp/calcutta/story_5136099.asp A tale of heroism untold (Part 2)] The Telegraph Calcutta
