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:[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://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER197595 ''The Indian Army A B C : being a record of some of those depressing events that occur in the daily life of every Officer of the Indian Army''] by Myauk [John William Jerome Alves] 1915. With download link, State Library of Victoria. [http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/87039 Direct link]. The quoit mentioned in Q for Quoit is known as a Chakram or Chakkar. [http://www.whoosh.org/issue8/rudnick6.html 'What The Heck Is A Chakram, Anyway?"] by Bret Ryan Rudnick.
*[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
