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:[https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012884603 ''Our trip to Burmah. With notes on that country''] by Surgeon-General Charles Alexander Gordon, Army Medical Department, Principal Medical Officer, British Forces, Madras Presidency. 1877 Archive.org
*Gosse - [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower'' (1934)] by Philip Gosse. Archive.org, mirror edition from the Digital Library of India. Full title/some editions: ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. The author was a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917, in the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division, then appointed Rat Officer to the 2nd Army, who subsequently served in India, based at Poona, 1917-1918. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*Howlett - [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=MPA2AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Many Camps : Sketches of Indian Life''] by Arthur Waltham Howlett 1912, (articles republished from the ''Manchester Guardian'') Google Books, which describes "travel all over the Raj, from Robat on the Persian Border, the Baluchistan desert, to hill stations and jungle rivers, from desert winters to monsoon rains". He also wrote:[https://archive.org/details/commonwealthempi34londuoft/page/328/mode/2up "Lost in the Desert. A Frontier Incident"] by Arthur Waltham Howlett (Major, RAMC), page 328 '' The Empire Review'' catalogued as ''The Commonwealth & Empire Review'' Volume 34, 1920 Archive.org. This incident occurred in the extreme west of Baluchistan, near the border with Persia and Afghanistan. He also wrote ''Many Camps : Sketches of Indian Life'' 1912, (articles republished from the ''Manchester Guardian'') available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001749857, and also available to those in areas such as North America on [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Many_Camps.html?id=MPA2AQAAMAAJ Google Books] and [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/012154871 HathiTrust Digital Library]. The latter book describes "travel all over the Raj, from Robat on the Persian Border, the Baluchistan desert, to hill stations and jungle rivers, from desert winters to monsoon rains", so possibly Possibly the 1920 article dates to this covers a time periodcovered in the 1912 book. He also wrote ''The Gunrunners and other Ballads'' 1912, available at the BL UIN: BLL01011837010 . Howlett, born 1880, joined the Indian Medical Service 1907 and exchanged into RAMC 1913 and was appointed Major 1919.
*Laing - [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44225104 "The Journal of Patrick Sinclair Laing Assistant Surgeon, 86th Regiment, 1842-1848"] by H B Eaton. ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 62, No. 250 (Summer 1984), pp. 74-89. Register and read online for free. jstor.org. The diary extracts commence October 1844.
:[https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18395429 Online draft of this article] Wellcome Library RAMC/1582, catalogued as "Draft of "The journal of Patrick Sinclair Laing, assistant surgeon, 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot, 1842 to 1847, in India"". Note, the draft is longer, and has information from 1842.
