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*''The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857'' by Julian RJ Jocelyn (1915). Now available online, refer below.
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See [[Royal Artillery#Other|External links]], below for "17 Pack Battery RGA in India". Albert Bakewell was later stationed in India with Royal Artillery 17th Light Battery, between 1929 and 1936, a lot of the time in the tribal territories.<ref> No longer available article "Son tells us of gunner's service in 1930s India" by Dan Shaw. <nowiki>http://www.blackcountrybugle.co.uk/News/Son-tells-us-of-gunners-service-in-1930s-India-24052012.htm</nowiki></ref>
A regimental account for the 6th Pack Battery is ''A Norfolkman in the Raj : the Royal Artillery 1920-1933'' by Alan W. Roper, published 2010. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015383558 .
==Recommended reading==
*''Tales of the Mountain Gunners: an Anthology compiled by those who served with them'' and edited by C. H. T. MacFetridge and J. P. Warren. Edinburgh : Blackwood, 1973. Second edition, with amendments 1974, which may be the preferred edition.
Published histories in the catalogue include [also see Historical books online, below]:
*''The History of the Royal Artillery : from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War'' by Sir Charles Callwell and Sir John Headlam (1931, 1940). ''Volume 1, 1860-1899'', ''Volume 2, 1899-1914'', ''Volume 3, Campaigns 1860-1914''. Vol. 3 has separate case of maps. UIN: BLL01006810121. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, refer Historical books online, below.
*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : Western Front 1914-18'' by Sir Martin Farndale (1986). UIN: BLL01008145795
*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: Anti-aircraft artillery, 1914-55'' by N.W. Routledge (c 1994). UIN: BLL01012703891
*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The years of defeat Europe and North Africa, 1939-41'' by Sir Martin Farndale 1996. UIN: BLL01012703884
*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. The Far East Theatre, 1941-1946'' by Sir Martin Farndale (2000). UIN: BLL01012703977; revised edition ''The Far East Theatre, 1939-1946'', Farndale (2002). UIN: BLL01012703981The 2002 edition is available online, refer below.
*''Honour Titles of the Royal Artillery'' by B P Hughes. [nd], but from elsewhere, first published 1975, 2nd edition 1988. UIN: BLL01008449724, UIN: BLL01011497298
*''A Norfolkman in the Raj : the Royal Artillery 1920-1933'' by Alan W. Roper 2010. About the 6th Pack Battery, Mountain Artillery. UIN: BLL01015383558
<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170714232553/http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/31589.aspxThe Royal Artillery: Life and Heritage]. Scroll down to The Gunner Magazine and The Royal Artillery Journal. Archived British Army website with details current at 14 July 2017. Also [https://web.archive.org/web/20170629005310/http://www.army.mod.uk/artillery/23539.aspx Gunner Magazine] Archived British Army website which contains some sample editions of The Gunner c 2013.</ref>
Originally published from 1858 as ''Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution'', the name was changed in 1905. Both series of journals are available at the British Library.
==Boy Trumpeters in the Royal Artillery==
''The Regulations for Recruiting for the Regular Army'' published in 1903 laid out the criteria under which boys aged between fourteen and seventeen years could be recruited. In prior years the recruitment was from even earlier ages. Many such Boys in the Royal Artillery trained as Trumpeters.
A regimental history is ''Trumpeters- The Story of the Royal Artillery's Boy Trumpeters''
by Brian Cloughley 2008. Boy trumpeters, known as 'badgies', were a fixture of the British Army for centuries, right up until the 1940s. The majority of trumpeters went to or stayed in India. ‘Badgie’ is derived from the Hindi baju, meaning ‘music’. Badgie wallahs were the music men and timekeepers in days when there were no other means of notifying large numbers of soldiers that they were required for various duties.<ref>[http://www.woodfieldpublishing.co.uk/contents/en-uk/p275_boy-trumpeters-Royal-artillery-1920s-1940s-British-army.html ''Trumpeters- The Story of the Royal Artillery's Boy Trumpeters''] woodfieldpublishing.co.uk</ref>
An individual account is found in ''Pick Up Your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India'' by William Pennington 2003, who commenced his training in 1934 as a Boy Trumpeter at age 14 in England, and was posted to India at age 15. This book is available on online, see [[Royal Artillery#Historical books online|Historical books online]] below.
==Anglo Indians in the Royal Artillery==
*[https://archive.org/details/history-artillery-mutiny-1857/page/n13/mode/2up ''The History of the Royal and Indian Artillery in the Mutiny of 1857''] by Julian R J Jocelyn 1915. Archive.org. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KE9FAAAAYAAJ Google Books], same digital file.
*''The History of the Royal Artillery : from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War'' by Sir Charles Callwell and Sir John Headlam (1931, 1940) ''Volume 1, 1860-1899'', ''Volume 2, 1899-1914'', Volume 3, ''Campaigns 1860-1914'', are available in three reprint editions,<ref> ''History of the Royal Artillery from The Indian Mutiny to The Great War:'' [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-royal-artillery-from-the-indian-mutiny-to-the-great-war-volume-i-1860-1899/ ''Volume I 1860-1899''], [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-royal-artillery-from-the-indian-mutiny-to-the-great-war-volume-ii-1899-1914/ ''Volume II 1899-1914''] and [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-the-royal-artillery-from-the-indian-mutiny-to-the-great-war-volume-iii-campaigns-1860-1914/ ''Volume III Campaigns 1860-1914''] Naval & Military Press reprint editions.</ref> which in turn are available as one digital file [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvshEvTYzOb on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Military Books/India).
*[https://archive.org/details/fareasttheatre190000farn/mode/2up ''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery: The Far East Theatre, 1939-1946''] by General Sir Martin Farndale 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*''A Sketch of the History of ‘F’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery'' by Major-General F. W. Stubbs and Major A. S. Tyndale-Biscoe, R.H.A. c 1905 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/sketch-of-the-history-of-f-battery-royal-horse-artillery/ ''Sketch of the History of ‘F’ Battery Royal Horse Artillery''] by Major-General F. W. Stubbs and Major A. S. Tyndale-Biscoe, R.H.A. c 1905 Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19VM1Ej-5w online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Military Books/Britain). Previously 1st Troop in the 1st Brigade of the [[Bengal Horse Artillery]].
*[https://archive.org/details/history-jbattery-royal-horse-art/page/n11/mode/2up ''History of “J” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery (Formerly A Troop, Madras Horse Artillery)''] by Major Guilbert E. Wyndham Malet, Captain of the Battery, 1875-79, 2nd edition 1898, first published c 1877. A later edition published 1904 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/history-of-j-battery-royal-horse-artillery-formerly-a-troop-madras-horse-artillery/ ''History of “J” Battery, Royal Horse Artillery (Formerly A Troop, Madras Horse Artillery)''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19ivTki8tX online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Military Books/Britain). The 1904 edition includes the history from establishment to the Boer War.
*[https://archive.org/details/royalairobservationcorps19351955book/page/n1/mode/2up ''Royal Air Observation Post. Auster Era 1936-1956. Evolution and Campaigns''] by Major Aamir Mushtaq Cheema 2012. Archive.org. AOP Air Observation Post, a light unarmed aircraft flown exclusively by Royal Artillery Officers. Air OP Squadron, a Royal Air Force Unit consisting of Squadron Headquarters and three Flights A, B and C attached to the Royal Artillery of a Corps. Includes a chapter on WW2 Burma.
*[https://archive.org/details/raschoolofequita00rasc ''R. A. School of Equitation, India''] 1922 Archive.org. Printed at Allahabad.
*[https://archive.org/details/1937-jusii-v67/page/297/mode/2up "The Passing of the R A Horse Driver"] by Major M E S Laws R A page 297 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India'' Volume 67, 1937. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsroyalart00farmgoog ''Memoirs of the Royal Artillery Band: its Origin, History and Progress: an Account of the Rise of Military Music in England''] by Henry George Farmer 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22Journal+of+the+United+States+Artillery%22&sort=date ''Journal of the United States Artillery''] by Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia USA. Archive.org. Multiple volumes from 1892 to 1922. The title then changed to
