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If your ancestor served in the [[British Army]] or the Honorable [[East India Company Army]], (HEIC Armyconsisting of separate armies in each of the three [[Presidencies]]) then you may find his military records very useful in providing details of his life and history. More details are given on the pages just mentionedand in the article [[Armies in India]]. Until 1859, the two armies were entirely separate and their records were stored separately. The HEIC Army [[East India Company]] was abolished in 1859, and its nationalised after the [[Indian Mutiny]] The European regiments of the Presidencies were subsumed into transferred to the British Army but the Indian regiments with their British officers continued until they became part of the [[Indian Army]] in 1895.

See [[List of HM Regiments:Category:British Army|British Army]] for British Army links to regiments that served in India and some information articles about them.