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*The website of ''Defence Surveyors' Association'' [UK] includes [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers] including some relating to the First World War, including the [[Western Front]], [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]] and [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt, Sinai, Palestine & Syria]], and the [[Second World War]].
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=cioBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Army Equipment: Part III-Section 1 Engineers : Equipment of a Company of Engineers''] by Lieut-Colonel A. C. Cooke RE 1866 Google Books
*[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5YteAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 '' Memorandum on the Employment of the Corps of Royal Engineers in India''] by Major G Chesney R E 1868 Google Books. Also available [https://archive.org/details/memorandumonempl00ches/page/n3/mode/2up Archive.org].
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=HlUBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR5-IA1 ''The Royal Engineer''] by Sir Francis B Head 1869 Google Books.
*''General Sir Alex Taylor G.C.B., R.E.: his Times, his Friends, and his Work'' by A. Cameron Taylor, his daughter. [https://archive.org/details/generalsiralexta01tayl/page/n9/mode/2up Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.88056/page/ii/mode/2up Volume II] 1913. Archive.org. 1826-1911. He arrived in India in January 1845, and took part in [[1st Sikh War]] page 28, [[2nd Sikh War]] page 61, [[Indian Mutiny]] page 143, continues Vol.II, [[Ambela Campaign|Ambeyla]] page 169, Vol.II. He later became President of The Royal Indian Engineering College, Coopers Hill, in England, 1880-1896.
|[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=IBJ-AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP9 Volume 10] 1849
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:*Second or New Series and Third Series are available to read online on Google Books; Archive.org ,via [http://archive.org/search.php?query=Papers%20on%20subjects%20connected%20with%20the%20duties%20of%20the%20Corps%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Link 1] and [http://archive.org/search.php?query=Professional%20papers%20of%20the%20Corps%20of%20Royal%20Engineers%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts Link 2] and Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library , via [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/005856274 Link 1], [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010046639 Link 2], and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009218579 Link 3]
:*Fourth Series [http://archive.org/stream/s4professionalpa02grea#page/n3/mode/2up Fourth series, Volume 2, 1908-1911] Archive.org
:Note that the volumes which are digitised specifically for Archive.org may have better plans and maps compared with those that are, or are copied from, Google Books. An example is the books from the University of Toronto
