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*Long Service and Good Conduct Awards, Registers: '''WO 102''' are available to download (free of cost) as pdf files from the [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/digital-microfilm.asp The National Archives Documents Online: Digital Microfilm], Registers of candidates noted for, and recipients of, the Long Service and Good Conduct awards between 1831 and 1953.
**[http://www.britishmedals.us/files/lsgcra.htm Transcription of the Long Service & Good Conduct medal register for the Royal Artillery (including RA, RFA, RGA & RHA) for 1902-12] . The List includes name, year of issue, rank and regimental number. The Asplin Military History Resources
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*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C90992 WO 100/494-497 India General Service Medal 1930-1935 Clasps NWF 1930-31, Burma 1930-32 Mohmand 1933, NWF 1935]
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C90993 WO 100/498-499 India General Service Medal 1936-1939 Clasp NWF 1936-37 Clasp NWF 1937-39] Although the implication is that all records in WO 100 are available as a download, these records do not have a download link.
===WO 102 Medal Rolls at the National Archives===
*Long Service and Good Conduct Awards, Registers: [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/browse/C14310?v=r '''WO 102'''] are available to '''download free of charge''' as pdf files. The records are Registers of candidates noted for, and recipients of, the Long Service and Good Conduct awards between 1831 and 1953. They are large pdf files, which require a broadband connection . For full details refer the National Archive’s advice page [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/digital-microfilm.htm Digital microfilm]
**[http://www.britishmedals.us/files/lsgcra.htm Transcription of the Long Service & Good Conduct medal register for the Royal Artillery (including RA, RFA, RGA & RHA) for 1902-12] . The List includes name, year of issue, rank and regimental number. The Asplin Military History Resources
==British Library records==
**[http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=1687 UK, Naval Medal and Award Rolls, 1793-1972] Based on the National Archives records ADM 171. "The rolls include medals awarded for British campaigns and service in Europe, India, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere during the height of the British Empire and into the 20th century. This database also includes medal rolls from the First and Second World Wars".
*India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2012-07/1343232005 post] by 'Tim B' dated 25 July 2012 which indicates that the medal rolls for the Commissariat Department in the HEIC and Indian Army are to be found at the British Library and are different to the medal rolls for the Commissariat Department of the British Army.
*[http://www.usiofindia.org/Publications/Books/View/?bid=70 Details] of the book ''Indian Order Of Merit Historical Records 1837 - 1947 Volume One 1837 – 1860'' by Cliff Parfet and Sqn Ldr Rana TS Chhina (Retd), published by the United Service Institution of India. "There are two substantial nominal indexes. The first lists 2,700 Indian officers and other ranks of the H.E.I.C. Army, the majority of these being recipients of the I.O.M. The second lists over 900 British officers and other ranks, and civilians, who were somehow or other involved in I.O.M. actions" This book is available at the [[British Library]]
*Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=962#p11661 thread] which includes reference to the service of the [[Surma Valley Light Horse]] in the [[Manipur]] Expedition of 1891 which led to the award of the India General Service Medal, 1854-95 with the clasp ‘N. E. Frontier 1891’. A later [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=962#p31665 post] advises the definitive work is the book by William Henry Sidney Wood ''Through Fifty Years: A History of the Surma Valley Light Horse'' available at the [[British Library]] which includes a list of medals awarded.
