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Mountain Artillery

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Historical books online
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/IndianMountainArtillery/mountainartillery#page/n3/mode/2up ''The History of the Indian Mountain Artillery''] by Brigadier-General C A L Graham 1957 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.131698/2015.131698.Indian-Army-Uniforms#page/n53/mode/2up "Native Artillery"] Chapter V, page 42 ''Indian Army Uniforms'' by W Y Carman 1969. Full title: ''Indian Army Uniforms under the British from the 18th century to 1947 : Artillery, Engineers and Infantry''. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000030 Page 24] and the following Chapter 5 "Screwier Gunner", ''Thim Days Is Gone''. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career. Page 24 he joins [[32nd Mountain Battery|12 Poonch Mountain Battery]] based at Thal, while the earlier pages describe his time in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, c early 1930s. He subsequently joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/527935 ''Seven Cantonments''] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527935 Archive.org version]. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based on the North-West Frontier, including [[Peshawar]], in 1937 and perhaps later. He was with a RA Light Battery, a Mountain Battery unit.
*''Modern Guns and Gunnery 1907. A Practical Manual for Officers of the Horse, Field and Mountain Artillery'' by Lt.-Colonel K A Bethell Royal Field Artillery [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.087227502?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust version], [http://issuu.com/carvil/docs/modern_guns___gunnery__bethell_1907_ issuu.com version]. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b74047?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1910 version: Entirely rewritten] Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16310?urlappend=%3Bseq=78 "Chapter IV. Horse and Mountain Artillery"] page 46 ''Modern Artillery in the Field: a description of the Artillery of the Field Army, and the Principles and Methods of its Employment'' by Colonel H. A. Bethell RFA (Retired) 1911 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Contains a photograph (facing page 47) (which can be rotated) (probably in German South West Africa, but similar to India).
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/820/mode/2up "The Burden and Heat of the Day] by Godfrey Elton page 821 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-Dec 1915. Archive.org. Travelling by rosd road near Afghanistan with a mountain battery and three hundred transport mules. The author was possibly Godfrey Elton of the 4th Hampshire Regiment, later 1st Baron Elton, posted initially to the North West Frontier until October 1915.
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