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*[http://www.library.mq.edu.au/digital/seringapatam/regiments.html#meuron de Meuron Regiment] www.library.mq.edu.au
*[http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20071010052149/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/europe/ch-regts/meuron.htm Le Régiment de Meuron] www.regiments.org, an archived site.
*[http://www.dutchburgherunionthedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_51_60/JDBU%20Vol%2054%20No%201-4%20-%201964(1).pdf "His Majesty's Regiment de Meuron"] by Julian James Cotton. Originally published in the ''Calcutta Review'' Vol. 117 October 1903, republished in the ''Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'' Vol. LIV January-December 1964. *[http://www.dutchburgherunionthedutchburgherunion.org/journals/vol_41_50/JDBU%20Vol%2043%20No%202%20-%201953(1).pdf "New Light on an Old Controversy: How the Regiment de Meuron became part of the British Army"] by R L Brohier ''Journal of the Dutch Burgher Union of Ceylon'' Volume XLIII no.2, April 1953.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=9zvz9eXtN24C&pg=PA44 Chapter 5 "Capitulation avec la Compagnie hollandaise des Indes orientales (1781)"] ''Le Régiment Meuron, 1781-1816'' by Guy de Meuron. ( French language ) 1982 Google Books (Preview). This book is available at the [[British Library]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://pages.unibas.ch/afrika/nocolonies/penn_kaehr.paper.rtf "The Meuron Regiment at the Cape, 1783-1788"] by Nigel Penn, now an archived webpage. Download a document to your computer (which you may need to locate in your downloads folder) which then must be opened. Presented at a [https://web.archive.org/web/20110909025943/http://pages.unibas.ch/afrika/nocolonies/prog.htm conference] in October, 2003. unibas.ch
*"Lodge "La Réunion Neuchâteloise", Colombo Sri Lanka 1790-1796" [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.masoniclib.com%2Fimages%2Fimages0%2F311729980481.pdf html version], [http://www.masoniclib.com/images/images0/311729980481.pdf original pdf] MasonicLib
*[http://www.ceylondatabase.net/military.html#DeMeuron De Meuron Regiment] International Ceylon Database: Military, part of Kyle Joustra’s [http://www.ceylondatabase.net/Genealogy.html website]. Includes some names of soldiers.
==Historical books online==
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/genealogist23selb#page/n385/mode/2up Six Marriages at Seringapatam in 1802], page 183, ''The Genealogist Volume 23'', 1907 Archive.org. There are some later marriages at Seringapatam which possibly could be for this regiment.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=zA4IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Narrative of the sufferings and adventures of Henderick Portenger, a Private Soldier of the late Swiss Regiment De Mueron, who was wrecked on the shores of Abyssinia in the Red Sea''] by R De May, as told by Henderick Portenger 1819 Google Books
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