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British in this context refers to those of British/European background.
*Officers were British, although there were additionally lower ranked native Indian Officers who were Viceroy Commissioned Officers.
:An attraction for British officers in the Indian Army, at least for some periods, was that an officer of the Indian Army could, if careful, live off his pay. In the British Army officers were expected to have a private income of some sort to supplement their pay.<ref>Matthew B. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/308267-officer-training-at-quetta-college-1916/?do=findComment&comment=3260337 Officer Training at Quetta College 1916] ''Great War Forum'' 30 December 2023. Accessed 31 December 2023.</ref>
*There were some British support staff, mainly Warrant Officers and Sergeants. Most of them were not attached to a regiment, however at times a British soldier could be in a role such as Quartermaster Sergeant in a Native Infantry Regiment. See [[Unattached List]] for further details.
*Generally, all members of the volunteer or auxiliary regiments were British, including Anglo-Indians (formerly known as Eurasians). See [[Auxiliary Regiments]].
==Indians in the British Army==
Some Indian served in the British Army, or were attached to the British Army. See [[British Army#Indians in the British Army|British Army - Indians in the British Army]].
*Refer [[Directories online]] and [[Military periodicals online]] for Army Lists available online. On the latter page, there is information about British, Indian Army Officers in the ''New Annual Army List'', also known as ''Hart's Annual Army List'' which is searchable through the National Library of Scotland website. There may be references to Indian Army Officers in British Army ''Quarterly List''s available online to 1946.
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk ''The <nowiki>[</nowiki>London<nowiki>]</nowiki> Gazette''] contains details of (some/all?) appointments and promotions for officers. See [[British Army#The_.5BLondon.5D_Gazette| British Army - The [London] Gazette]] for more details of this source. As an example of the information which can be found, see a ''Great War Forum'' topic (Details<ref>stevenbecker [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/304425-indian-army-officers-att-aif/ Indian Army officers att AIF] ''Great War Forum'' 14 March 2023. Retrieved 16 March 2023.</ref>).
*Some issues of the ''Gazette of India'' and the ''Calcutta Gazette'' (refer [[Indian Army#British Library|British Library above]]) are available online, refer [[Newspapers and journals online]] and [[Gazette of India online]].
*Some Officers were of high social status/the Landed Gentry class and genealogical and other resources relating to this social class such as school and Sandhurst records may provide Army details. See [[British Army#Landed Gentry genealogical sources/high social status|British Army - Landed Gentry genealogical sources/high social status]] for sources of records, including online.
*For Prisoner of War records from the [[First World War]] which include members of the Indian Army, see [[British Army#Prisoners of War|Prisoners of War]] on the British Army page.
*[https://www.archive.org/stream/armiesofindia00macmuoft#page/n29/mode/thumb Illustrations (thumbnails)] from ''The Armies of India'' painted by Major A. C. Lovett 1911 Archive.org. Click to enlarge. The image title is generally on the page prior to the image. Also see below for this book. Some images are on [https://www.soldierssoldiers.com/item-tag/armies-of-india/?product_count=48 soldierssoldiers.com] tagged armies of india, [https://web.archive.org/web/20181012002252/http://www.soldierssoldiers.com/sales_military_prints_section.php?section=ArmiesOfIndia page 2], archived.
*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1956-02-882-2 Photograph: Officer's full dress uniform worn by Major J A C May-Somerville, 11th King Edward's Own Lancers (Probyn's Horse), 1913 (c)] includes a separate image of a kurta. National Army Museum.
*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1957-10-18-0 1 Photograph: Full dress kurta, 1st Duke of York's Own Lancers (Skinner's Horse), 1902-1914]. National Army Museum.
*[http://www.militarysunhelmets.com/2013/turbans-of-the-indian-army#more-13633 "Turbans of the Indian Army"] by Peter Suciu MilitarySunHelmets.com. Provides details of the various styles.
*[https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1956-02-882-11 Photograph: Pugri, 11th King Edward's Own Lancers (Probyn's Horse), 1913 (c)] Also known as a lungi. Additional photograph shows a kullah. National Army Museum
*[http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=WgYTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP11 ''East India Military and Budget Estimates. Session 5 February-21 August 1867''] ''House of Commons Accounts and Papers, Volume 15'' Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xSNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1 ''Abolition of the bonus system in the Indian Army''] compiled by Lt.-Col. J.C. Phillips, retired list, late Bengal Army. 1869 Google Books
*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012224477 ''The Victoria Cross in India''] by Major Knollys 1886, first published c 1877. Awards for the [[Indian Mutiny]]. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also [https://booksarchive.google.comorg/details/victoriacrossindia/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.au/books?id=DnY4AQAAMAAJ Google Books org version], USA etc access only.
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1880-the-victoria-cross-in-the-colonies-and-gallant-sepoys-and-soward-by-knollys-s-pdf/ ''The Victoria Cross in the Colonies and Gallant Sepoys and Sowars''] by William Wallingford Knollys. Catalogued 1880. (Note: catalogued title includes ''Soward''.) Link to a pdf download PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.0972 Archive.org mirror version]. Includes details of the Victoria Cross awarded in India after the Indian Mutiny. First part to page 85; 2nd part to page 176, or 91 pages of text.
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=eZABAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA5 ''Gallant Sepoys and Sowars''] by Major Elliott and Lieut-Col. Knollys 1882 (although catalogued 1889). 176 pages of text. Google Books. Both [https://archive.org/details/gallantsepoyssowars/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org version]. All books were part of the series ''Deeds of Daring Library''.
*Series title ''Her Majesty's Army; a descriptive account of the various regiments now comprising the Queen's forces, from their first establishment to the present time'', by Walter Richards. [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.405/page/n1/mode/2up [Volume III<nowiki>]</nowiki> ''Her Majesty's Army: Indian And Colonial Forces''] With Coloured Illustrations. [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.402/mode/2up 2nd file, Vol III] c 1891 Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection.
*[https://archive.org/stream/armybookforbrit00daltgoog#page/n472/mode/2up "Part III The Army in India and Colonial Forces"] page 442 ''The Army Book for the British Empire: A Record of the Development and Present Composition of the Military Forces and their Duties in Peace and War'' by William Howley Goodenough R A and James Cecil Dalton R A. 1893. HMSO. Archive.org. Includes Indian Army.
*[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. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.4958/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org]. 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''.
*[https://archive.org/details/khakigownautobio0000bird/page/n7 ''Khaki and Gown : an Autobiography''] by Field–Marshal Lord Birdwood 1941. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Born in India in 1865, he lived in England from age 3, and was then posted, aged 19 to the British Army regiment XII (12th) Lancers at Bangalore in 1885. In 1887 he joined the XI (11th) Bengal Lancers; 1893 The Viceroy’s Bodyguard. He served in the Boer War, appointed again to India 1902, where he was on Kitchener’s Staff until Kitchener left India in 1909; Commander of the Kohat Independent Brigade for 4 years; 1912 appointed Quartermaster-General; c 1913 appointed Secretary to Government in the Army Dept; 1914 Corps Commander Australian and New Zealand contingent in Egypt, Gallipoli, France; Commander of the Fifth Army In France c 1918; 1920 Commander of the Northern Army in India for 4 years; 1925-1930 Commander-in Chief in India.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.824/page/n17/mode/2up “The Simplicity of Yesterday”] by Field–Marshal Sir Claude Auchinleck page 8 ''The Times of India Annual 1949''. Note missing pages 11-12. Then continues [https://archive.org/details/dli.venugopal.824/page/n73/mode/2up page 77] and pages 79 and 81. Archive.org, K.K. Venugopal Collection. This volume is also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01002827019 . Auchinleck joined the 62nd Punjabis in 1904. The latter pages include details about the structure of a regiment c 1904, and the training of men.
*[https://archive.org/details/lifeinindianoutp00cassiala/page/n9 ''Life in an Indian Outpost''] [Buxa Duar, North East India] by Major Gordon Casserly, Indian Army, first published c 1910. Archive.org. Also see Fiction, below.
*[https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/61SLV_INST/s6pvau/alma991975953607636 ''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]. [https://archive.org/details/indian-army-abc/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]. 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://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.38633/page/n321 "The Defence of India"] page 273 ''The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent: from his journals and letters'' edited by Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice 1928 Archive.org. Rawlinson became Commander-in Chief in India at the end of 1920, until he died in March 1925. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Rawlinson,_1st_Baron_Rawlinson Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/indianarmygarris0000heat/page/n1/mode/2up ''The Indian Army : The Garrison of British Imperial India, 1822-1922''] by T A Heathcote 1974. A volume in the series ''Historic Armies and Navies''. A comment elsewhere said [contains] "... important detail concerning organisation, recruitment and pay". Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/sonsofjohncompan0000gayl/mode/2up ''Sons of John Company : the Indian and Pakistan Armies 1903-91''] by John Gaylor 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishrajitsind0000unse/mode/2up ''The British Raj and its Indian Armed Forces, 1857-1939''] edited by Partha Sarathi Gupta and Anirudh Deshpande 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/catalogueofbooks00cockrich#page/n1/mode/2up ''A catalogue of books relating to the military history of India''] drawn up by Maurice J.D. Cockle 1901 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278755 ''Handbook For Indian Cavalry''] By F.W.P. [Frederick William Pakenham] Angelo 1898. Published at Allahabad. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72295 ''Compendium of the More Important Army Order''] 1919. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Compendium of the More Important Orders of the Government of India, Army Department and India Army Orders issued from the 1st August 1914, to the 31st December 1917''.
:Additional editions are available at the British Library with catalogue entry Indian Army Orders (1903-1947) IOR/L/MIL/17/5/245-299
*'' Government Of India: Army Department Army Instruction (Instructions)''. Originally from Digital Library of India, now with mirror versions on Archive.org. Based on catalogue details. Note some years have multiple files which may, or may not, have different content.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548441 1918]; , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72286 1919108867 1918, different format]but incorrectly catalogued 1920; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108867 192072286 1919]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548554 No.2 Of 1920]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.515142 1921]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.515144 /page/n1 1922]; , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548422 Index To Army Instructions India January To December 1922]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.515155 1923]; , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.552730 2nd Jan. 1923]; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69273 Index To Army Instructions India1924, January-June] 1924'''Note''' very poor quality file. Some pages are upside down. In one part of the book every 2nd page is irrelevant (different book); [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548540 1926].
:Additional editions are available at the British Library with catalogue entry Indian Army: Army Instructions (India) (1918-1946) IOR/L/MIL/17/5/501-529
*Army Regulations, India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.121905 ''The Indian Army: Its Contribution to the Development of a Nation''] by Stephen P Cohen 1971. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/armiesofrajfromm00farw ''Armies of the Raj: From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence 1858-1947''] by Byron Farwell 1989. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/colonialwarssour0000hayt/mode/2up ''The Colonial Wars Source Book''] by Philip J Haythornthwaite 2000 reprint, first published 1995. Cover the period up to 1903. British Army and Indian Army. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
* ''Resume - Horse And Mule Breeding Operations In India, 1880'' Government Central Branch Press Simla. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35034 Archive.org version]. Mirror from Digital Library of India. Information about the Department of Horse-Breeding Operations under the Government of India, established March 1876.
:[https://archive.org/stream/horsebreedingi00gilb#page/52/mode/2up "Horse-Breeding in India"], page 52 ''Horse-Breeding in England and India: and Army Horses Abroad'' by Sir Walter Gilbey 1906 Archive.org
