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*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924023004264#page/n7/mode/2up ''My Service Days: India, Afghanistan, Suakim '85, and China''] by Maj.-Gen. Sir Norman Stewart 1908 Archive.org The author initially came to India in 1872 with the [[68th Regiment of Foot]] and subsequently joined the Indian Army where he held many positions, retiring in 1904
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofi00westuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of an Indian Cavalry Officer''] by Colonel John Sutton Edward Western 1922 Archive.org. Born in India in 1857, he returned after schooling in England in 1876 , the greater part of his service being with the Punjab Frontier Force.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromkabultokumas00will ''From Kabul to Kumassi: Twenty-Four Years of Soldering and Sport''] by Brigadier-General Sir James Willcocks 1904 Archive.org. He arrived in India in 1878 with the [[100th Regiment of Foot]]. He later joined the Indian Army, and served until 1897, when he transferred to West Africa.
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015074830525?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Romance of Soldiering and Sport''] by General Sir James Willcocks 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Covers the content of the previous book more briefly, together with his time in India from 1902-1914, and subsequently.
:Also see [[Western Front]] for his WW1 book ''With the Indians in France''.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/undertenviceroys00woodiala#page/n7/mode/2up ''Under Ten Viceroys: the Reminiscences of a Gurkha''] by Major-General Nigel Woodyatt 1922 Archive.org . The author, who was in a British Army regiment, arrived in India c 1883, and was subsequently appointed to the Indian Army where he held many positions.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=b5GcvYse7vYC&pg=PA133 Training to be an officer at the Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dunn c 1943] page 133 ‪''One Hell of a Life: An Anglo-Indian Wallah's Memoir from the Last Decades of the Raj''‬ by Stan Blackford. Google Books
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