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*National Archives Guide [https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/birth-marriage-death-armed-forces/ How to look for records of... Births, marriages and deaths in the armed forces]
*[http://www.sog.org.uk/uploads/Else_Churchill_-_British_Overseas_Records_in_the_UK.pdf Sources for the British Overseas in the GRO, TNA, Guildhall, SoG Library] by Else Churchill. Images, but minimal text, one of a series of [http://www.sog.org.uk/learn/who-do-you-think-you-are-2013-speakers-handouts/ 2013 presentations]. sog.org.uk. Images of actual records available.
*Mediterranean and Middle East area
**Malta. Some regiments in India came from a posting in Malta, or were posted there after leaving India.
***[https://web.archive.org/web/20180806125328/http://maltafamilyhistory.com/ Malta Family History], now an archived website. Includes data for births, marriages and burials. Also includes data about other areas such as the Ionian Islands, including Corfu and has a section called "Other Mediterranean Cemeteries" which includes Gibraltar and Smyrna, Turkey. The Smyrna database also includes baptisms and marriages (1795 – 1832). Although this site is now archived, most/all of the internal links appear to be available. Note there are two Index pages, the first Index page is linked from the Home Page, and the second Index page is linked from the first Index page.
***[[findmypast]] includes a group of records from Gibraltar, some baptisms, marriages and burials from St Andrew's Kirk, which appear to be related to the military, or seamen, and some marriage indexes supplied by FamilySearch. From the Search, select A-Z of record sets, then use Search term Gibraltar to locate the record databases.
**Egypt had compulsory civil registration for births and deaths from 1912 for all, including foreigners. <ref> [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/isp/013_the_develop_of_the_vital_stat_system_in_egypt.pdf The Development of the Vital Statistics System in Egypt] by Gamal Askar January 1981.</ref> [https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Egypt_Genealogy Egypt Genealogy] FamilySearch Wiki.
**Baghdad, Iraq. [https://www.stevebusterjohnson.com/raf-hinaidi-burials-database Burials at Hinaidi RAF Cemetery, now (now Ma'Asker Al Raschid RAF Cemetery): Searchable Database of 299 Graves] from 1921-1937. 196 of the 299 graves are for Royal Air Force casualties from eight RAF squadrons. There are also 71 graves for British Army personnel, 2 Royal Navy and 30 civilian. There are additional internal links about the cemetery. ''6 Squadron, Books & Early Military Aviation'' website.
===Historical books online===
*[https://www.archive.org/stream/miscellaneagenea02bann#page/n9/mode/2up/search/Rocco "Monumental Inscriptions of the British Cemeteries in the Ionian Islands"] by Ortho Alexander, British Consul, pages 13, 71, 110, 146, 320 ''Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica, Volume II, Fourth Series'' 1908. Many Army and Navy entries. Archive.org
