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:FamilySearch has a [https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/415801 catalogue entry] for a series of microfiches of the ''Colonial Office List'', (produced by Chadwyck-Healey, 1987), currently (2019/06) available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, with however the potential to be digitised in the next few years, and perhaps be more widely available, or at least searchable. The same microfiche series may also be available at some other libraries, or to a very limited extent at some other FamilySearch Centres.
:''Colonial Office List'' (to 1925) and the later title ''The Dominions Office and Colonial Office List'' are available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01002841625 and UIN: BLL01007173533
*''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya'' by T.M. Winsley 1938. A [http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/printheritage/detail/b037892f-77e2-4d3a-81dc-5c7b785dd5f1.aspx Limited preview] of this book, which however currently (2021/04/04) is quite extensive, including small copies of photographs , is available online. eresources.nlb.gov.sg. Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/history-of-the-singapore-volunteers-corps-1854-1937-being-also-an-historical-outline-of-volunteering-in-malaya.html ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps, 1854-1937 : being also an historical outline of volunteering in Malaya''] Naval & Military Press</ref> which in turn is available online on the pay website fold3, owned by Ancestry, as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ80xl_tk4DCfanlUH4 ''A History of the Singapore Volunteer Corps''].
*[https://digitalgems.nus.edu.sg/collection/79/items?sort_by=publication_date&sort=asc&filter= Digitised books on “History, Culture & Heritage“] from National University of Singapore. Note however, some of the books listed are in fact not viewable.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=lqA2AAAAMAAJ ''Memoir of the life and public services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles...particularly in the government of Java, 1811-1816, Bencoolen and its dependencies, 1817-1824: (etc)''] Volume 1, by Sophia Raffles (1835), [http://books.google.com/books?id=86A2AAAAMAAJ Volume 2] Google Books.
