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*[http://www.salisburyplainheritagecentre.com Salisbury Plain Heritage Centre] Home of the Royal Artillery Collection. Not expected to open until c 2020.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://7fd-regt-raa-association.com/Documents/UK%20Artlillery%20terms%20and%20abbreviations.doc Glossary of Royal Artillery. Terms and Abbreviations (Historical and Modern) by Philip Jobson]. 7fd-regt-raa-association.com, now an archived website. This is a (Word document) download to your computer, which must then be opened. Appear to be extracts from the book [http://op-ack.tripod.com/royalartilleryglossaryoftermsandabbreviations/index.html ''Royal Artillery Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations''] by Philip Jobson 2008
*[http://www.victorianwars.com/index.php Victorian Wars Forum]
*[http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php Great War Forum]
*[http://www.gutenberg-e.org/mas01/index.html ''"The Infantry cannot do with a gun less": The Place of the Artillery 
in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918''] by Sanders Marble gutenberg-e.org. Colombia University Press. Based on the author's Ph D thesis, University of London, 1998.
*Ian Paterson’s page on the history of many Artillery Regiments including Royal Horse Artillery, [http://www.desertrats.org.uk/orgartillery.htm Artillery Regiments That Served With The 7th Armoured Division]. Includes details of regiments whose history dates back to the [[Bengal Artillery|Bengal]], [[Madras Artillery|Madras]] and [[Bombay Artillery]]. desertrats.org.uk
*[http://www.victorianwars.com/index.php Victorian Wars Forum]
*[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
*[https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.army.mod.uk/documents/general/spring04_8btytext.doc "The History Of 8 (Alma) Battery Royal Artillery"] Royal Artillery Historical Society Spring Meeting 22nd April 2004. Now an archived webpage (Word version), (a download to your computer which must then be opened). This Battery was raised in 1755 and immediately proceeded to India, until it returned to England in 1765. It took part in the [[2nd China War]] and the [[3rd China War|Boxer Rebellion]] in addition to further garrison duty in India. army.mod.uk/documents/general
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028000101 ''Recollections of a Military Life''] by General Sir John Adye , RA 1895 Archive.org. He arrived when the Indian Mutiny broke out, and was in India nearly nine years.
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/21/1/111.full.pdf "An Episode of the Second Afghan War, 1878–79"] by Colonel J. M. Beamish ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1913;21:1 111-116. The author was Medical Officer for the Battery of Garrison Artillery-13/8 R.A.
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/527935 ''Seven Cantonments''] by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based in the North-West Frontier region, in the c1930s including [[Peshawar]]. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=tSNYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PP4 ''The Indian Artillery [of the E. I. Company<nowiki>]</nowiki> as incorporated with the Royal Artillery''] 1863 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aaVWAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA1‪ ''The Royal Artillery as it Is. 1864‬''] Google Books. A submission regarding one of the anomalies following the transfer in India of the old “Indian Artillery” to the Royal Artillery.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16310?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Modern Artillery in the Field: a description of the Artillery of the Field Army, and the Principles and Methods of its Employment''] by Colonel H. A. Bethell RFA (Retired) 1911 Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/modernpigstickin00wardrich#page/n9/mode/2up ''Modern Pig-sticking''] by Major A. E. Wardrop, Royal Horse Artillery, with chapters by J. Vaughan, F. W. Caton Jones, M. M. Crawford, and H. E. Medlicott 1914 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b25288?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet''] by Major G. Burrard RFA (Retired) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/233394 Pdf download, Digital Library of India]
*[https://archive.org/details/raschoolofequita00rasc ''R. A. School of Equitation, India''] 1922 Archive.org. Printed at Allahabad
*[https://archive.org/details/makingofgunner00streiala ''The Making of a Gunner''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
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