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==Law's Tables==
For the period 1716 to 1877 ''Battery Records of the Royal Artillery'' compiled by MES Laws (two volumes: Volume 1, 1716-1859 and Volume 2, 1859-1877, published in 1952 and 1970), is a comprehensive guide to battery stations that also helps navigate the frequent renumberings that took place. [Volume 1] "starts off with a detailed explanation of the Royal Artillery and records at TNA. Each RA company is assigned a unique serial number to use throughout the book. This avoids complications as company names, numbers, and even battalion assigned to changed over time. The bulk of the book is organized by year and gives monthly location for each company, details of their moves and detachments, and lists deaths of officers. It is also contains a gazetteer."<ref>[https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/img_auth.php/9/95/British+Artillery+Records.pdf "British Artillery Records"] by Alan E Mann 2012. FamilySearch</ref> The two volumes are available to consult at the [[British Library]], UIN: BLL01011540882 , on the open access library shelves at [[The National Archives]] and was were available at the RA's Firepower Museum. A third volume covering the period following 1877 is unpublished, but was held by Firepower. '''Note''': Firepower Museum has now closed, but see [[Royal Artillery#Part of Library and Archive now at Larkhill|Part of Library and Archive now at Larkhill]].<br> Volume 1 ''Battery Records of the Royal Artillery, 1716-1859'' is available on the pay website [https://www.thegenealogist.com TheGenealogist] as part of the Diamond subscription, under Military/Battery Records.
Note that sometime in the period December 1888 to August 1889, probably 1 July 1889, the names of the Batteries in the Royal Field Artillery Brigades changed from an alphabetical to a numerical name.
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==Monthly Army List and Indian Army List==*See [[British Army#Locating a regiment|British Army - Locating a regiment]] for details of more information available, including in online editions of the ''Monthly Army List'' and ''Indian Army List''.
==Specific years==
===Stations in 1859===
===Stations in 1902===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20031209052605/http://orbat.com/site/uk_orbats/files/open/uk_army1902.pdf The British Army 1902] by Graham E.Watson from Orbat.com, now archived. Select pages 6 and 7 of the document for India.
=== Stations in 1910, 1913, 1914===
*''Stations of Units of the Regular Forces, Militia, Special, Reserve, and Territorial Force'' by [Great Britain] War Office. His Majesty’s Stationery Office (HMSO)
**[https://archive.org/details/stations-units-no-27-january-1910/page/n7/mode/2up Royal Artillery] page 6, No.27. 1st January 1910. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/stations-units-no-28-april-1910/page/5/mode/2up Royal Artillery] page 6, No.28. 1st April 1910. Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/stations-units-no-29-july-1910/page/6/mode/2up Royal Artillery] page 6, No.29. 1st July 1910. Archive.org.
**[https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE5360246&file=FL17850897 Royal Artillery] page 6, No.40. 1st April 1913. slv.vic.gov.au
**[https://viewer.slv.vic.gov.au/?entity=IE5360246&file=FL17850912 Royal Artillery] page 6, No.45. 1st July 1914. Image 91 of digital file for April 1913. slv.vic.gov.au
:University of Oxford seems to have most editions No. 1-27, 29-40, 42-45 (not digitised), from the [https://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/permalink/f/89vilt/oxfaleph014864578 catalogue entry] and further links. No 45 is perhaps the last publication.
===Stations in 1911===
The following list is derived from the 1911 England and Wales Census which included overseas military bases, taken from [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/browser.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=12183&GPE=False&DOWN=TRUE&MARKER=37579000&MARKERSCN&j=1&j=1 The National Archives RG 14/34978-34992, 34995, 34997] catalogue entry. There are indications it may not be a complete list of all regiments which were actually in India at the time.
