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*Online [http://archive.org/search.php?query=collection%3Anlsarmylists&sort=-publicdate Army Lists], from a broken range of dates from 1840 are available at [http://archive.org/details/nationallibraryofscotland National Library of Scotland on Archive.org]. This links displays volumes in the order they were uploaded to Archive.org, and the editions for the earlier years, from 1840, were uploaded first, so appear last on the list.
:'''Note''': [http://digital.nls.uk/100739612 All these editions are now also available on the website of the National Library of Scotland], including some editions which do not seem to be available on Archive.org, with a '''Search''' facility, either for the entire ''Hart's'' collection, individual years, or groups of years. A text version of pages is also available if required.
:The NLS collection is easier to '''Search''', but it is based on OCR, Optical Character Recognition, which is dependent on the quality of the underlying printing, and scanning. If you do not find what you are looking for, the Archive.org collection is easier to '''Browse'''.
*Editions from 1840 are available on the [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000534236 HathiTrust Digital Library]. From 1880 limited access editions are available, probably accessible by those in North America. All these editions have the advantage that the pages can be rotated.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28A+list+of+the+general+and+field-officers%29&sort=date ''A List of the General and Field-Officers, as they rank in the Army''…] 1758-1781. 1781 title is ''A list of all the officers of the Army''. Archive.org. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002135130 1766] HathiTrust Digital Library.
*HathiTrust Digital Library has the following editions of ''A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines'' [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000045795 1791, 1794-1804, 1821] and [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010308144 1782 and 1811- 1856 (broken range)]. All these editions have the advantage that the pages can be rotated. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Great+Britain+War+Office%29+AND+title%3A%28A+list+of+the+officers+of+the+army%29&sort=date Archive.org editions]. Also search in [http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search Google Books] for other editions of ''A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines'' 1778-1855 (incomplete series) and [http://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1,bkv:p&tbo=p&q=intitle:New+intitle:Army+intitle:List&num=10 ''New Army List''] 1840-1869 (incomplete series). For the latter series, some additional volumes may be found if they are searched for individually.
*Annual ''Army List''s (various titles) from 1754 to 1879 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], under WO 65 records. They can also be viewed online, although personal experience was that this was a slow process, as each page was slow to load. For more details see TNA Discovery catalogue record for [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C14273 WO 65]. These are '''official''' annual publications, published by the War Office. The title for 1877-78, record WO 65/162, is ''A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Royal Marine Forces, Corrected throughout to the 31st March 1877. 1877-1878''. By Authority. HMSO 1877.
*[[Findmypast]], pay website, contains a database "British Army, Army Lists 1839-1946"<ref name=BAAL >[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-army-lists-1839-1946 British Army, Army Lists 1839-1946] findmypast.</ref> and a related Browse database (located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Directories & Almanacs). The Lists available seems to be less than the National Library of Scotland coverage.
*Also see [[Military periodicals online#Quarterly Army List|Quarterly Army List]] below, for databases on other pay websites such as Ancestry and TheGenealogist.
