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British Library’s Help for Researchers: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160604163347/http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecordsfamilyhistory/occupations/europeanofficers/euroofficers.html European Officers], now an archived webpage.
'''Many relevant records have now been digitised, see [[findmypast]]'''.
Records include
**[[LDS]] microfilm [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/687638 catalogue entry] for these Cadet Papers
**[http://isp.ans.com.au/~rampais/genelogy/india/indexes/cadfram.htm List of Cadets who joined the East India Company Armies 1789-1859] with equivalent LDS microfilm number. Bob Holland’s Raimpais website
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/4f3b19a5-4dca-4e41-a965-3f951af74538 The Recruitment of Private Soldiers 1753-1861. '''IOR/L/MIL/9/1-106'''] including**Registers of Recruits 1817-1860 . '''IOR/L/MIL/9/1-28'''
*: FamilySearch digitised microfilm [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/520226 catalogue entry]
**Embarkation records
*:Editions of ''Burke's Peerage'' are available at major libraries.
**[http://www.thepeerage.com/index.htm The Peerage]. A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain. A free website.
** See [[Peerage and landed gentry genealogical books online]]. Publications contain historical information, so later publications will contain information about earlier periods.
==The difference between rank in the Regiment and rank in the Army==
====Historical books online====
*Also see [[Directories online]] and [[ Military periodicals online]] for online Army Lists
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Bq1BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1 ''An Historical Account of the British Army, and of the Law Military, as declared by the ancient and modern Statutes and Articles of War for its Government: with a free commentary on the Mutiny Act, etc''] by E Samuel 1816. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Bq1BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR9 Contents] Includes [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Bq1BAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA665 "Troops in the East Indies"] page 665. Google Books. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_0000000132D8 British Library Digital version].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89070497664?urlappend=%3Bseq=372 "Indian Army"] page 352 ''Considerations on the state of British India, embracing the subjects of colonization; missionaries; the state of the press; the Nepaul and Mahrattah wars; the civil government; and Indian Army'' by Lieutenant A. White, of the Bengal Native Infantry. 1822 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*''The East India Military Calendar: Containing the Services of General and Field Officers of the Indian Army'' by John Philippart. Contain the biographies of many officers. [[Google Books]]:
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoirs of the early life and service of a field officer on the retired list of the Indian army''] by Major David Price 1839 Google Books. Recruitment into the East India Company Army in London in 1780 is mentioned on [http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA11 page 11]
*[https://archive.org/details/nedfortescueorro00forruoft ''Ned Fortescue; or, Roughing it through life; a story founded on fact''] by EW Forrest, late Her Majesty’s Indian Army. 1869 Archive.org. It seems likely that the author arrived in India c 1841 and took part in actions during the 1840s and 1850s, from the [[Sind Campaign]] to the [[Indian Mutiny]]. Ned meets a recruiting party for the East India Company on [https://archive.org/stream/nedfortescueorro00forruoft#page/26/mode/2up page 26]
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=qfgDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The Duties of Judge Advocates: Compiled from Her Majesty’s and the Hon. East India Company’s Military Regulations…''] by Captain R M Hughes 12th Regiment Bombay Army, Deputy Judge Advocate General, Scinde Field Force. 1845 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/britishofficerh00stocgoog/page/n6 ''The British Officer: his Position, Duties, Emoluments and Privileges…''] by J H Stocqueler 1851 Archive.org. Includes "Part VI The East India Company’s Service", from page 260. [https://archive.org/details/britishofficerh00stocgoog/page/n18/mode/1up Contents, Part VI]
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=yE0MAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Remarks on the Native Troops of the Indian Army''] by Major John Jacob 1854 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=B_Y2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Opinions on the Indian Army : (originally published at Meerut in 1850, under the title of "Musings on military matters.")''] by Colonel John Studholme Hodgson Bengal Army. Brigadier, late Commanding the Punjab Irregular Force 1857 Google Books
