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*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=pack%20mule%20Troitsa&items_per_page=20 Photographs: Pack mules showing various loads 3. 7 inch mountain howitzer] British Army, Sadleir-Jackson Brigade, Troitsa, (near Archangel, Russia)1919 iwm.org.uk
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/search?query=Pack%20mule%20MOD Photographs: Pack mule models] iwm.org.uk. Click to enlarge, and for some of the models you will see there are additional views of the same model.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140327163642/http://www.newrider.com/Library/How_it_Was/mules.html About Mules c 1937], now archived. Extracts from the ''Manual of Horsemastership, Equitation, and Animal Transport'' 1937 - Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office: London. This title is now available online, see below.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110106192621/http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/richardtrooping.html British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Trooping with Richard Douglas Crow], now archived includes a short account of transporting a Mule Corps from Bombay to Marseilles in WW2
*[https://www.hindustantimes.com/chandigarh/force-k6-indian-troops-in-france/story-Sqq8GVn7QELe6YFORD4tiL.html "Force K6: Indian troops in France"] by Mandeep Singh Bajwa, ''Hindustan Times'' May 19, 2013. Consisted of 22, 25, 29 and 32 Mule Companies and a supply depot, a reinforcement unit, part of an Indian General Hospital, and a remount section sent to France, reaching there in December 1939. The men were subsequently evacuated from Dunkirk and then spent time in Britain.
:[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER220629 ''Handbook for the 2.95 inch q.f. mountain gun, mark I mule equipment. 1906'']. Published London. With plates, including Mule plates. State Library of Victoria.
:[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:SLV_VOYAGER210104 ''Handbook of the q.f, 3.7-inch mountain howitzer, mark I, 1921''] State Library of Victoria. The handbook contains text relating to the loading of mules, but not the illustrative plates which were issued separately. (The digital file may be slow to download)
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208168/page/n3/mode/2up ''Manual of Horsemastership, Equitation and Animal Transport 1937''] Archive.org. Includes content about Mule Pack Transport and Pack Saddlery.
*[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1864482/?page=1 "A Short History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps"] by Brigadier J. Clabby ''Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine'' 1976 Feb; 69(2): 93–96. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Contains references to mules.
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