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"Contents: [v.1]. 26th June 1916 _ v.2. 24th January 1917 _ v.3. 31st December 1917 _ v.4. 30th June 1918 _ v.5. 31st December 1918". The shelfmark is OIR 355.37 Open Access. There are also the records, Applications for appointments to the India Army Reserve of Officers (1916-1918) IOR/L/MIL/9/552 to IOR/L/MIL/9/552. Search by name, for link see section Records.
:[http://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1039&s_id=176# FIBIS database: A List of Officers (I.A.R.O.) recruited to or Re-engaged during the Year 1916 and up to the middle of January 1917]
===The Army in Burma Reserve of Officers (A.B.R.O.)===The commencement of the ABRO is not on record; a suggested date is the separation of India and Burma in 1937. See [[Indian Army#External links|External links]] below.
==Records==
===British Library ===
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/albums/72157644008850194 Photographs: World War I: Indian Army by H D Girdwood] British Library on flickr.com. Mainly taken in France on the [[Western Front]]. Also available through the BL [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx Digitised Manuscripts Search] using keyword Girdwood.
*[http://swarajyamag.com/ideas/how-indian-officers-came-to-be-recruited-for-the-rajs-army "How The British Raj’s Army Opened Its Doors For ‘Indian’ Officers"] by Srinath Raghavan June 26, 2016 swarajyamag.com. Includes mention of the establishment of the Royal Indian Military Academy in Dehradun in October 1932.
*[http://www.angloburmeselibrary.com/abro-overview.html The Army in Burma Reserve of Officers (A.B.R.O.)] by Vivian Rodrigues. angloburmeselibrary.com
*[http://www.indian-tales.com/pages0-9.asp ''Indian Tales''] by Patrick O‘Meara (born 1930) describes his childhood in India, spent in Army cantonments. His father was in the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC). Indian-tales.com
*Obituary of [https://web.archive.org/web/20100924063518/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1448007/Charles-Chenevix-Trench.html Charles Chenevix Trench], c 1914 -2003 (telegraph.co.uk, archive.org link) He served as an Indian Army officer in the 1930s, commissioned into [[Hodson's Horse]], and winning an MC during the Second World War . In 1946 he retired from the Army to follow his father into the Indian Political Service for the 18 months until Partition. His 19 books included three classic accounts of British India: ''The Indian Army and the King's Enemies, 1900-1947''; ''The Frontier Scouts''; and ''The Viceroy's Agent'', all published in the 1980s and available at the [[British Library]]
