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== FIBIS Resources ==
*[http://feeds2.feedburner.com/FibisPodcast 'The lure of Indigo - and how the Hills family of East Bengal won three VCs'] FIBIS podcast by Miles Macnair in which he also talks about his ancestors involvment with the Calcutta Light Horse.
 
==British Library holdings==
*''Annual report of the Calcutta Light Horse''. Holdings: 1st (1887/88)-9th (1895/96). Wanting: 4th (1890/91)
*''Gallop : the journal of the Calcutta Light Horse''. Vol. 1, no. 1 (Jan. 1932)-v. 4, no. 4 (Aug. 1939)
*''Calcutta Light Horse''. A.F.I. 1759-1881-1947. [With plates.] 1957
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_2&cid=452#452 APAC Catalogue entry] Mss Eur C714 Typescript history of the Calcutta Light Horse, written c1938, by Ralph Kington Hewetson Brice, Bengal Covenanted Pilot Service 1929-c1947; with brief biographies of three officers of the Calcutta Light Horse.
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_4&cid=221#221 APAC Catalogue entry] Mss Eur D1050 Papers and photographs of Norman D Harris, ICI (India) 1927-58, Company Chairman 1950-57, including three copies of 'Gallop', dated 1944-46, the Journal of the Calcutta Light Horse, and miscellaneous material relating to business in Bengal.
*[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-msseur_18&cid=353#353 APAC Catalogue entry] Mss Eur Photo Eur 241 'Brief Memoirs of a 'Box Wallah'': copy of memoir by Lt-Cdr Brian David Hadlow (1911-81), describing his experiences of working in Calcutta for the shipping firm Turner Morrison and Company 1933-39, service with Calcutta Light Horse, and life as an officer of the Royal Indian Navy Volunteer Reserve 1939-45.
 
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