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*[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.
*For WW1 accounts, also see [[Western Front#Artillery|Western Front - Historical books online - Artillery]]
*[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. Includes Egypt, Sinai from February 1916 to August 1916. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force).
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n5/mode/2up ''Clouds That Flee''] by Colonel Montague Cooke. 1935. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Born 1877, he joined, as an officer, the Militia 1894, and the Royal Artillery 1899. He was mainly in the Royal Horse Artillery. He was in India in 1906, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n117/mode/2up page 109], for a year, and again in 1916, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n211/mode/2up page 198] to found a School of Gunnery at Akora, North-West Frontier Province, Oct. 1916, and during WW1 also fought on the [[Western Front]] (2 separate periods) and in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
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*''Pick Up Your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India'' by William Pennington. First published by Cassell UK 2003, paperback edition Phoenix, an imprint of Orion Books, London 2004 ISBN-10: 0753817837 ISBN-13: 978-0753817834
:This very interesting and ‘easy to read’ autobiography covers the Army career of Temporary Captain Joseph William Pennington, Royal Artillery, 151372, from his training in 1934 as a Boy Trumpeter at age 14 in England, his posting to India at age 15 where he remained until 1939, to his World War 2 experiences in Burma where he was awarded the Military Cross as a Forward Observation Officer. For more details, see [[History reading list]].
:Now available on online, see [[Royal Artillery#Historical books online|Historical books online]] below.
==See also==
*[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.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n5/mode/2up ''Clouds That Flee''] by Colonel Montague Cooke. 1935. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Born 1877, he joined, as an officer, the Militia 1894, and the Royal Artillery 1899. He was mainly in the Royal Horse Artillery. He was in India in 1906, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n117/mode/2up page 109], for a year, and again in 1916, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n211/mode/2up page 198] to found a School of Gunnery at Akora, North-West Frontier Province, Oct. 1916, and during WW1 also fought on the [[Western Front]] (2 separate periods) and in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
*[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. Includes Egypt, Sinai from February 1916 to August 1916. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force).
*For WW1 accounts, also see [[Western Front#Artillery|Western Front - Historical books online - Artillery]]
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33). Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
* ''Seven Cantonments'' by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527935 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based in the North-West Frontier region, in 1937, and perhaps later, including [[Peshawar]]. He was CO of a Light Battery, or Mountain Battery, where the gunners were British.
*[https://archive.org/details/pickupyourparrot0000penn/mode/2up ''Pick Up Your Parrots and Monkeys: The Life of a Boy Soldier in India''] by William Pennington 2004, first published 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. For more details about this book , see [[Royal Artillery#Recommended reading|Recommended reading]] above.*[https://archive.org/details/burmarailwaymans0000best/mode/2up ''Burma Railway Man : secret letters from a Japanese POW : the remarkable record of Charles Steel, a Japanese POW''] by Brian Best 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow / Lending Library. Steel was a Battery Sergeant Major, 135th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, who became a POW at the fall of Singapore.
*[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://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''] 1865 Google Books
*[https://www.abhilekh-patal.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2730447 ''Annual Report on the Royal Artillery in India for 1901-02''] National Archives of India. abhilekh-patal.in
*[https://archive.org/details/HandbookOfThe4InchGunMarksVAndV ''Handbook of the 4-inch B. L. Gun, Marks V and VI. (Land Service)''] by Great Britain. War Office 1904 Archive.org. With Plates at the rear of the book.
*''Modern Guns and Gunnery 1907. A Practical Manual for Officers of the Horse, Field and Mountain Artillery'' by Lt.-Colonel H A Bethell Royal Field Artillery [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/chi.087227502?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Hathi Trust version], [http://issuu.com/carvil/docs/modern_guns___gunnery__bethell_1907_ issuu.com version]. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b74047?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 1910 version: Entirely rewritten] Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$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 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.233394/page/3/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*[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.
