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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284332 ''The History of the Royal Artillery (Crimean Period)''] by Colonel Julian R J Jocelyn 1911 Archive.org, Digital Library Of India Collection.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/historyroyalartillery1860-1914/HistRoyalArtilleryVol1_1860/page/n7/mode/2up ''The History of the Royal Artillery : from the Indian Mutiny to the Great War'' ] by Sir Charles Callwell and Sir John Headlam (1931, 1937, 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)Archive. org
*[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://wwwarchive.naval-military-press.comorg/details/fbatteryroyalhorseartillery/page/productn9/sketch-of-the-history-of-f-battery-royal-horse-artillerymode/ 2up ''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 Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3Archive.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19VM1Ej-5w online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in Military Books/Britain)org. 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.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=-lcBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Remarks on the Organization of the British Royal Artillery''] by Charles James B. Riddell 1852 Google Books
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.1610/page/n1/mode/2up ''Leaves from the Diaries of a Soldier and Sportsman during twenty years’ service in India Afghanistan Egypt and other countries 1865-1885''] by Lt.-General Sir Montagu Gilbert Gerard 1903 Archive.org, mirror from PAHAR: Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1912_supplement/Gerard,_Montagu_Gilbert Biographical details from Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement] wikisource. Born 1842, he had a varied Army career, including Royal Artillery, Bengal Staff Corps, various missions and commissions, and took part in many military campaigns.
*[httphttps://archive.org/details/jramc.bmj.com-1913-vol21/contentpage/21n151/1mode/111.full.pdf 2up "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. Archive.org. The author was Medical Officer for the Battery of Garrison Artillery-13/8 R.A.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiersindia00keat ''A Soldier's India''] by Clifford Keates. Large print edition 1988, first published 1986. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library. Edited from a manuscript ''Flashes of Light from the Storm of Life'' by Keates, Driver No 6278 (born 1864), of the 26th Field Battery, Royal Artillery in India who arrived at [[Neemuch]], 160 miles north of [[Mhow]] in November 1888. The account describes a march by a Reconnaissance Party between Neemuch and [[Ahmednagar]] in 1890.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirofltcoledw00steeiala ''A memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations''] 1921 Archive.org. In India from 1901 when he exchanged into L Battery, Royal Horse Artillery at Secunderabad, to 1904. He subsequently worked for the Colonial Department in Africa. During WW1 he was on the [[Western Front]] with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
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