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===Royal Army Medical Corps and the earlier British Army Medical Services===
*Sir James McGrigor, later Director-General of the Army Medical Department, spent a short time in Bombay and Ceylon with the [[88th Regiment of Foot]] from mid 1799. [http://books.google.com/books?id=AE40AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 Chapter VI of his autobiography]<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=AE40AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA92 ''The Autobiography and Services of Sir James McGrigor, bart., late Director-General of the Army Medical Department, with an appendix of notes and original correspondence], Chapter VI, page 92 1861 Google Books</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/recollectionsoft00gordrich ''Recollections of thirty-nine years in the Army : Gwalior and the Battle of Maharajpore, 1843, the gold coast of Africa, 1847-48, the Indian mutiny, 1857-58, the expedition to China, 1860-61, the siege of Paris, 1870-71, etc.''] by Sir Charles Alexander Gordon Surgeon- General 1898 Archive.org
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Leith_Adams Andrew Leith Adams] (Wikipedia) travelled to India in 1849 with the [[64th Regiment of Foot]] and remained for seven years. [http://books.google.com/books?id=vGkUAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover ''Wanderings of a naturalist in India: the western Himalayas, and Cashmere''] by Andrew Leith Adams MD (1867) Google Books.
*[http://archive.org/stream/kohatkuramandkh00thogoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''Kohat, Kuram, and Khost; Or, Experiences and Adventures in the Late Afghan War''] by Richard Gillham-Thomsett, Surgeon, Army Medical Department 1884 Archive.org. He was initially appointed to the 20A Battery of Artillery.
