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:For details including purchase, see [http://indian-cemeteries.org/bacsa/html/bacsa_books.html BACSA Books] - select Cemetery Record Books.
:[[BACSA]] have put indexes to the majority of their cemetery books online and these indexes are free to browse. If an indexed name is of interest then application can be made to BACSA for details of the relevant burial inscription - charges apply for this service.
:Justin Corfield’s book incorporates some/all?/of, perhaps the British burial entries of , three of the four volumes of the book by P.C. Bloys van Treslong Prins, ''Genealogische en heraldische gedenkwaardigheden betreffende Europeanen op Java'', [''Genealogical and heraldic memorabilia relating to Europeans in Java''] published 1934-1939, but not Volume 4, published in Batavia in 1939 and not widely available due to WW2. Volume 4 appears to be available at the [[British Library]] and is also included, together with the first three volumes, in the DVD mentioned below (Dutch language)
::Volumes 1-3 of the book by Bloys van Treslong Prins are available on a [[FamilySearch]] microfilm, [https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/65715?availability=Family%20History%20Library catalogue entry] ([[FamilySearch Centres#Ordering microfilms|Ordering microfilms]]).
*''British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935)'' by Alan Harfield 1984 is available at the [[British Library]]. History of British and Indian Armies in Sumatra, Java, Sarawak, Malaya and Singapore from 1685-1935. Includes names of officers and men buried in these areas. Also includes name lists of persons in some military units which served in these areas.
*[[Dutch Indies Genealogical Association]] sells publications, including a [http://www.igv.nl/publicaties/bronnen-dvd DVD] of records from multiple sources including all four volumes of the book by Bloys van Treslong Prins, refer above. Both the DVD and webpage are in Dutch. You can obtain a computer produced translation of the webpage using [http://translate.google.com Google Translate], or some browsers such as Google Chrome have an automatic option to translate.
==External links==
*[http://thedandelions.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/has-somerset-maugham-promoted-malaysia-more-than-shahrukh-khan/ Has Somerset Maugham promoted Malaysia more than Shahrukh Khan?] by Oscar the Grouch. The short stories by W. Somerset Maugham set in Malaysia and Borneo, written during the 1920s and 1930s, were typically concerned with the lives of the British imperial colonist. Includes details of a murder in 1911 in Malaya on which one of the stories is thought to be based.
