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*At [[Gallipoli]] during the [[First World War]] there were Four Mule Cart Corps, each comprising 650 men and 1086 mules.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140221014448/http://www.hcindia-au.org/pdf/The%20Indian%20Army%20at%20Gallipoli%201915.pdf "The Indian Army at Gallipoli 1915"] condensed from a paper presented by Sqn Ldr Rana TS Chhina (Retd) at a conference organised by the Australian War Memorial in August 2010. Website of the High Commission of India in Australia, now an archived page.</ref>
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[[Image:Mule Corps.jpg|right|thumb|150px|''page from 1905 Indian Army List showing entries for Mule corps'']]
Details of where the individual sections of the Mule Corps were based each year are included in the annual Indian Army Lists under the section entitled "Supply and Transport Corps". (An example page from 1905 is shown).
==Gallipoli, First Word War==
At [[Gallipoli]] during the [[First World War]] there were Four Mule Cart Corps, each comprising 650 men and 1086 mules.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140221014448/http://www.hcindia-au.org/pdf/The%20Indian%20Army%20at%20Gallipoli%201915.pdf "The Indian Army at Gallipoli 1915"] condensed from a paper presented by Sqn Ldr Rana TS Chhina (Retd) at a conference organised by the Australian War Memorial in August 2010. Website of the High Commission of India in Australia, now an archived page.</ref>
==Mule Corps in Macedonia, First World War==
*[http://www.hmvf.co.uk/pdf/BRITISHARMYANIMALS.PDF British Army Transport Animals] Excellent article by Clive Elliott containing lots of background information about the roles played by army mules with accompanying photos and diagrams.
*[http://www.limbergunners.ca/html/body_history_of_the_screw_gun.html The History Of The Screw Gun] By Colonel J.R.M. Hubel, CD AdeC BA M Ed limbergunners.ca. Includes a section on mules (scroll down)
*[http://www.kingscollections.org/_assets/archiosgallery/57/2344.jpg Photograph of Indian troops [7 Indian Mounted <nowiki>[Mountain?]</nowiki> Artillery Bde with mules, waiting to embark transport ship at Alexandria, Egypt. No 2278. 1916] from a [http://www.kingscollections.org/servingsoldier/collection/the-dardanelles-expedition#Gallery collection of official photographs of the Dardanelles Expedition, 1915-1916.] The Serving Soldier King’s College London
*[http://www.mapinpub.in/book_images/Sample%20pages%20from%20Indian%20Troops%20in%20Europe.pdf Photograph: Mule carts at Bombay docks, WW1] Scroll down to the image. mapinpub.in
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/534401.html "Macedonia 1916-1918: Indian Military Transport Units in Macedonia"] by Harry Fecitt, ''Harry’s Sideshows'' kaiserscross.com. Mule Corps in Salonika.
*[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.
*[http://www.newrider.com/Library/How_it_Was/mules.html About Mules c 1937] Extracts from the ''Manual of Horsemastership, Equitation, and Animal Transport'' 1937 - Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office: London.
*[http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/richardtrooping.html British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Trooping with Richard Douglas Crow] includes a short account of transporting a Mule Corps from Bombay to Marseilles in WW2
*Video: [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060030433 Evacuation of "special force" mules and men by waterborne craft made especially for the occasion] Burma WW2 contains some images of mules. Imperial War Museums
===Historical books online===
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/unitedservicema01pollgoog#page/n431/mode/1up "Mule Transport in Persia"] by C E Biddulph page 407 ''The United Service Magazine Volume 8 New Series October 1893 to April 1894'' Archive.org. Mules were purchased in Persia by the Indian Transport Department.
*[https://archive.org/stream/animalmanagement00grea#page/270/mode/2up ''Chapter X: The Mule''] page 270 ''Animal Management 1908''. Prepared in the Veterinary Department for General Staff, War Office. HMSO. Reprinted 1914 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/onroadtokutsoldi00blacrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''On the road to Kut: a soldier's story of the Mesopotamian campaign''] with 56 illustrations and a map. 1917 Archive.org. The author appears to be an officer from India in a Mule Corps.
*[https://archive.org/stream/horsewarillustra00galt#page/42/mode/2up "Chapter V. The Gallant Mule"] page 43 ''The Horse and the War'' by Captain Sydney Galtrey, Remount Department. Illustrated with drawings by Captain Lionel Edwards 1918 Archive.org
*[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)
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