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*[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.
*''The Travels of Risaldar Shahzad Mir Khan'' of the 11th K E O Lancers (Probyn’s Horse), who enlisted 14th February 1882, died 1924. Translated extracts from his autobiography ''Shah Safar Sari-i-Dunya'', in Urdu. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284708/2015.284708.Usi-Journal#page/n346/mode/1up Part I] includes the Herat Boundary Commission under General Lumsden in 1885, page 326-340 and [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284708/2015.284708.Usi-Journal#page/n569/mode/2up Part II], Journey to Tibet and China, with Capt. M S Wellby 18th Hussars 1895-1896, page 543 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 62, 1932'' Archive.org
*[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
:[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=13zeKysRC2AC&pg=PA34 Page 34] ''History of the Indian Military Academy'' by Brig M P Singh 2007 Google Books. Changes introduced at IMA on the outbreak of WW2.
