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Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general
*[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by A G Lind DSO 1933. Wikimedia Commons. Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. May be slow to open. Includes France 1914-1915.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)]]; [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[20th Deccan Horse]]; [[29th Lancers (Deccan Horse)]]; [[38th Central India Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|Garhwal Rifles]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|127th Baluchis]]; the histories being on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website).
:Other regimental histories, see [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[44th Gurkha Rifles| 8th Gurkha Rifles]]- the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles had many deaths on the Western Front; [[9th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]];.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012679548 ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. Officers and men of the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India who became the military postal service of the Indian Army. Includes chapters on the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft#page/538/mode/2up "From an Indian Post Office in France"] page 538 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 197 January- June 1915. Archive.org.
:Available at the British Library: ''Water supply''. [Containing 9 maps showing the] Water supply in France] (1921) UIN: BLL01004844114 ; '' Work under the Director of Works (France)'' (1924) UIN: BLL01006788368 ; ''Miscellaneous: The organization and expansion of the Corps, 1914-18. Organization of engineer intelligence and information. Camouflage service. Concrete defence works and factories. Forward communications. Machinery, workshops, and electricity. Anti-Aircraft searchlights. Inundations. Schools''. Compiled by Colonel G. H. Addison. 1926. (372 pages) BLL01007769877. All the ''Miscellaneous'' sections have been reprinted as separate volumes by Naval&Military Press. Also available online [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000487540 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University access.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland waterways and docks, royal engineers in war time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes mention of Train Ferries from 1917. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
:[https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/SouthAfrica/Sappers-I/Sappers-1.html Chapter 1] ''Salute the Sappers'' by Neil Orpen with H.J. Martin. Series ''South African Forces World War II'', Volume 8, Part 1. Published Johannesburg : Sappers Association, c1981-c1982. Details the formation of the S.A. Signal Company, R. E., and other South African Engineer units who served in France and East Africa. Transcription from ibiblio.org/hyperwar.
*[https://archive.org/details/signalserviceine00prie ''The Signal Service in the European War of 1914-1918 (France)''] by R E Priestley (Late Major, R E) 1921 Archive.org. Part of the above series ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War''. Includes information about the use of [https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/357/mode/1up carrier pigeons] (Index entry)
**[https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/10/mode/2up/search/Indian Page 11] includes a very brief reference to the Indian Telegraph units of the Indian Army. These were very likely to have been men from the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India, who were appointed to the Army at the outbreak of war. Also see ''The Post Office of India in the Great War'', above.
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