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*[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.
*''Life of Lord Kitchener'' by Sir Arthur George 1920. ([https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche01arthuoft/page/n6 Volume I]); [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche02arthuoft/page/n8 Volume II], including [https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche02arthuoft/page/114 pages 114-284] Commander-in Chief in India, 1902-1909. ([https://archive.org/details/lifeoflordkitche03arthrich/page/n8 Volume III]) Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/kitchener00balliala/page/n5 ''Kitchener''] by Brig.-General C R Ballard. A book in the series ''Private Lives Library''. Probably a 1936 reprint, originally published 1930. Archive.org
*[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.
*[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://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.
*[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1960-hired-to-kill-some-chapters-of-autobiography-by-morris-s-pdf/ ''Hired to Kill: Some Chapters of Autobiography''] by [Charles] John Morris 1960. Link to a pdf download, PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. John Morris was in the British Army from 1914, commissioned in 1915 (Leicestershire Regiment), then an officer with the [[3rd Gurkha Rifles]] from 1918 until 1934 in Palestine, Afghanistan (the Third Afghan War in 1919) and Waziristan, with headquarters at [[Lansdowne]], near the Himalayas. He took part in the 1922 Mount Everest Expedition as transport officer, and trekked in Chinese Turkestan in 1927. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Morris_(anthropologist) John Morris (anthropologist)] Wikipedia.
*[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.
