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*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1959-indian-cavalryman-by-guest-s-pdf/ ''Indian Cavalryman''] by Captain Freddie Guest, [Reginald Edwin Guest] 1959. Pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:Recommended by Peter Moore in [[Military reading list#Other|Military reading list]] who says "Selected in England to be trained as an Officer Cadet in Wellington, Southern India, he was commissioned into the 8th King George’s Own Light Cavalry, Indian Army... This story covers the period between the wars and up to the end of the World War. He saw active service in the North-West Frontier; Africa; China and was the first prisoner-of-war to escape from the Japanese in Hong Kong; ending the war as the Equitation Instructor at the Officer Cadet School in Bangalore”. His earlier book ''Escape From The Bloodied Sun'' was a more detailed account of his escape from Hong Kong when he was an officer in the Middlesex Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/FriendsNotMastersAPoliticalAutobiographyByPresidentAyubKhan_201705 ''Friends Not Masters: A Political Autobiography''] by Mohammad Ayub Khan, President of Pakistan 1968 (first published 1967) Archive.org.[https://archive.org/stream/FriendsNotMastersAPoliticalAutobiographyByPresidentAyubKhan_201705/Friends-Not-Masters-A%20Political%20Autobiography%20by-President%20Ayub-Khan-#page/n21 ”Early Days in the Army”] page 9, he attended Sandhurst in 1926.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.126753 ''The Untold Story''] by B M Kaul [Brij Mohan] 1967. Archive.org, , Public Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.126753/2015.126753.The-Untold-Story#page/n21 Page 16], he applies to join the Indian Army and is selected to go to train at Sandhurst where he passed out in July 1933. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brij_Mohan_Kaul Brij Mohan Kaul] He became Chief of General Staff (CoGS) in the Indian Army.
*''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 Sair-i-Dunya'', in Urdu, official text-book for the elementary Urdu examination. [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284708/2015.284708.Usi-Journal#page/n345/mode/2up '''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, pages 543-553 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 62, 1932'' Archive.org; [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.280027/2015.280027.Usi-Journal#page/n121/mode/2up '''Part III'''] Africa with Captain Wellby in 1898-99, pages 114-122; [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.280027/2015.280027.Usi-Journal#page/n211/mode/2up '''Part IV'''] England, pages 204-214. ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India, Volume 63, 1933'' Archive.org. (Captain Wellby wrote two books about these expeditions, see [[11th Prince of Wales's Own Lancers]]). Published later as ''The life & adventures of K.B. Risaldar Shahzad Mir : O.B.I. (1863-1924) : 11th (K.E.O.), Bengal Lancers (Probyn's Horse)'' with the contents given in this [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6491400 catalogue entry] (nla.gov.au).
*[https://archive.org/stream/illustratednava05unkngoog#page/n143/mode/2up "Indian Life: The Cantonment Magistrate"] by Major-General de Berry, page 120 ''The Illustrated Naval and Military Magazine, Volume 8, 1888''. Archive.org. The Cantonment Magistrate was invariably a military officer of one of the Indian Staff Corps.
