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*[http://www.cwgc.org Commonwealth War Graves Commission Homepage]. To find the cemeteries in India on the CWGC database, select "Find War Dead", scroll down the page to "Find Cemeteries & Memorials" and enter India in "Country".
The CWGC has a long term program in India for the reinstatement of First World War Cantonment Graves which were previously declared un-maintainable.<ref> [httphttps://issuuarchive.comcwgc.org/wargravescommission/docs/2ar2012GetMultimedia.ashx?edb=4065448/2666323 Catalog&type=default&fname=26%5cffd9a1-691b-4a19-b49e-1f76f3493cde.pdf 2011-2012 Annual Report] page 19 (previously located 17. Located in “Learning and Resources” section of the website[https://archive.cwgc.org// CWGC Archive], however not yet located on Browse the "new "websitecollection, Annual Reports, introduced July 2020View Records then click on CWGC/2/1 .)</ref>
For images, see the "War Graves Photographic Project" [[Cemeteries#Other external links| below]].
*''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 Part I]'' by Miles Irving (1910) [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=205 Index] (Hathi Trust Digital Library), [https://archive.org/details/InscriptionsOnChristianTombsPunjabKashmirNWFPVol2BiogNotices ''Part II Biographical Notices of Military Officers and others whose names appear in the inscriptions of Part I''] by George William De Rhe-Philipe (1912), (Archive.org) . Both these books were later reprinted under the title ''Soldiers of the Raj''. Part 1 is also available on [https://archive.org/details/ALlistOfInscriptionsOnChristianTombsPunjabKashmirNWFPVol1Inscriptions Archive.org], and previously it did not seem possible to read the book online, but this problem seems to have resolved.
*"God’s Acre in North-West India" by Colonel R. H. Firth ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1914. A record of the names, the careers, and details as to the graves of, or monuments to, all the medical officers buried or memorialized in the Punjab, the North-west Frontier Province, and Kashmir. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/23/3/320.full.pdf Part 1] Volume 23:3 320-333 and [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/23/4/415.full.pdf Part 2] Volume 23:4 415-439. Archive.org versions [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1914-vol23/page/319/mode/2up page 320], [https://archive.org/details/jramc-1914-vol23/page/415/mode/2up page 415].
:[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1915-vol24/page/287/mode/2up "Some Echoes of the Past"] by Lieutenant-Colonel W A Morris page 288 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'', Volume 24 1915 Archive.org. Medical officers who lost their lives in N-W P and Oudh Provinces 1788-1860.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.22864 ''List of Christian Tombs and Monuments of Archaeological or Historical Interest and their Inscriptions in the North-Western Provinces and Oudh''] by Rev A Fuhrer 1896 Archive.org. Note: entire book is printed sideways. Also available on [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015083010952 HathiTrust Digital Library], where the pages may be rotated. This book was subsequently revised and enlarged as Blunt's 1911 publication which follows
:[http://www.archive.org/details/listofinscriptio00blunuoft ''List of Inscriptions on Christian Tombs and Tablets of Historical Interest in the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh''] by Sir Edward Arthur Henry Blunt (1911) Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/listofinscriptio00blunuoft#page/264/mode/2up Index of names], following page 263.
**"Glimpses of Serampore 1810-1820" [https://archive.org/details/bengal-past-present-vol46-julydec1933/page/23/mode/2up pages 23-25] and [https://archive.org/details/bengal-past-present-vol46-julydec1933/page/131/mode/2up pages 132-136] ''BPP'' Vol. 46 1933 July-Dec. Archive.org. Extracts from the diary of Severin Kierulf, merchant in the Danish Ost Indian Company at [[Serampore]]. Includes details of deaths, marriages and births.
** See [[Calcutta#Historical books online|Calcutta-Historical books online]] for Calcutta burial records 1713-1788 from ''BPP''.
*The book ''Illustrated Handbook to St John’s Church (Old Cathedral) Calcutta'' 1909 includes some cemetery records. The author is stated elsewhere to be E W Madge.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/b31359681_0003/page/131/mode/1up?q=calcutta Page 31], ''Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous English literature, Volume 3'' by Kennedy, Smith and Johnson 1928 Archive.org.</ref> This book is available online to members of the [[Society of Genealogists]]. Non members may see 34 Index records from this book which are available in this [https://sogdata.org.uk/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_dataset&id=2141&s_id=1306&sort=27830 SoG Data Online] database. The book is also available at the British Library in the BACSA Archives Mss Eur F370/1207. Note the records from this book may be included with the records from this church appearing in ''Bengal Past and Present'', see item above.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.07588/19434.11160-%2520%2528part-4%2529/page/n39/mode/2up "List of Graves in the Old Cemetery closed at Howrah"] page 467 ''The Calcutta Gazette April 14, 1915''. Also appeared earlier [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.07588/19434.11160-%2520%2528part-4%2529/page/n39/mode/2up page 436] April 7, 1915. Archive.org
:Same list in a different publication, [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.510652/2015.510652.The-Gazette#page/n157/mode/2up/ List of Graves at Howrah Cemetery in a ruinous condition] page 701 ''Gazette of India April 3, 1915''. Subsequently repeated [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.510652/2015.510652.The-Gazette#page/n561/mode/2up/ page 774] ''Gazette of India April 17, 1915''. Archive.org.
