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Inscriptions in online books
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70473 ''List of European Tombs in the Tanjore District''] 1914 Archive.org. Includes [[Tranquebar]]. Also available [https://www.tamildigitallibrary.in/book-detail?id=jZY9lup2kZl6TuXGlZQdjZI9juMy&tag=List%20of%20European%20tombs%20in%20the%20Tanjore%20district#book1/ Tamil Virtual Library].
**[https://archive.org/details/monumentalremain00alex/page/n7 ''The Monumental Remains of the Dutch East India Company in the Presidency Of Madras 1664-1824''] by Alexr. Rea. Reprint edition, first published 1897. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/grave-inscriptions-hunsur/mode/2up Grave Inscriptions at Hunsur]. Archive.org. Scroll to the last five pages of this article which lists in English the grave inscriptions. Article otherwise in the Kannada language. Venkateshamurthy, R. and H. R. Hemaraju (2000) "Hunasurina British Samaadhigalu [The British Tombs at Hunasur]". ''Itihasa Dharshana'' 15:156-165. Hunsur (Hoonsoor) was situated about 30 miles west of the town of Mysore, and was c 1844 the head quarters of the Public Cattle Department, Madras Army.
*''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
:[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.
:Catalogued as [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.7293/mode/1up ''List of Christian tombs and monuments, of archaeological by historical interest and their inscriptions in charge of the P.W.D. United Provinces'']. Internal title is ''List of Christian tombs in charge of the Public Works Department''. Contains a map at the back of the book dated either 1912 or 1913. Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library (CSL) [Delhi] Digital Repository.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-filepahar/1902-list-of-inscriptions-on-tombs-or-monuments-in-assam-by-francis-s-pdf/ ''List of Inscriptions on Tombs or Monuments in Assam''] 1902. Pdf download, PAHAR-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Zek2AQAAMAAJ Google Books version] [https://archive.org/details/list-inscriptions-tombs-assam-1902 Archive.org version].
*Articles in ''Bengal, Past and Present'', Archive.org, mostly from the Digital Library of India Collection.
**[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.500672/2015.500672.Bengal-Past#page/n243/mode/2up "Forgotten Graveyards"] by D G Crawford, Lt.-Colonel IMS p189-201 ''BPP'' Volume 3, April-June 1909. Archive.org/DLI.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70565/page/n351/mode/2up "Graves of Europeans in the Armenian Cemetery at Isfahan"] by T. W. Haig ''The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland'' (July, 1919), pp. 321-352. Archive.org.
*[https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/def9b438f5401bdec99066297256390b.pdf "Monument to the Westmoreland Regiment The 55th Regiment of Foot in Dinghai City on Zhoushan Island"] by Keith Stevens and Jennifer Welch ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Vol. 38 (1998), page 383 (12 pages). From [https://hkjo.lib.hku.hk/exhibits/show/hkjo/home Hong Kong Journals online] hkjo.lib.hku.hk. Includes names of burials 1842-1857 in the British cemetery on Zhoushan Island [Chusan Island] off the East coast of China, but not specific dates of death.
*[https://archive.org/details/british-cemetery-manila-philippines/mode/2up "The British (Protestant) Cemetery at San Pedro, Makati, Manila, Philippines"] by David W Mahoney ''Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society'' Vol. 27 (1987), pages 101-111. Archive.org.
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