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<small>'''See also''' - [[Military reading list]] and Occupation:[[Soldier]]</small>
There are various sources of information for finding out about a man in the British Army. For a comprehensive description of sources available in the India Office Records, see Peter Bailey's article in ''[[FIBIS Journal]]'' 13.
===Military records at the National Archives===
====Muster rolls====
<blockquote>"...a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. The first entry may show age on enlistment. An entry on the form "Men becoming non-effective", sometimes to be found at the end of each quarter's musters, shows the birthplace, trade, and date of enlistment of any soldier discharged or dead during the quarter. From about 1868, at the end of each muster, may be found a Marriage Roll, which enumerates wives and children for whom married quarters were provided." </blockquote>
From '''1878 to 1898''', all muster rolls are in [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=3&CATID=13076&SearchInit=4&SearchType=6&CATREF=WO+16 '''WO 16''']
===India Office military records at the British Library===
For a comprehensive description of sources available in the India Office Records, see Peter Bailey's article in ''[[FIBIS Journal]]'' 13.
There is a small collection of India Office records at the [[British Library]] called British Army Records '''IOR/L/MIL/15''' 1806-1930 ([http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-1&cid=1-3#1-3 catalogue entry] which includes links to subgroups including British Army: '''British troops embarked for India''' [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlmil_8-1&cid=1-3-15#1-3-15 '''IOR/L/MIL/15/42-46'''] 1871-1889).
