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*[http://cbi-theater.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater/elephants/elephants.html Elephants at war, in Burma, World War 2] from "China - Burma - India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II"
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*[http://7fd-regt-raa-association.com/Documents/UK%20Artlillery%20terms%20and%20abbreviations.doc Glossary of Royal Artillery. Terms and Abbreviations (Historical and Modern) by Philip Jobson]. Includes the entry 'Bail Battery'. These were Heavy Batteries in India in the 1890's comprised of Elephant drawn guns. "At the beginning ot the 20th Century, with the introduction of Breech-Loading guns for the Heavy Batteries, the Elephants and Bullocks were replaced with teams of eight heavy horses" 7fd-regt-raa-association.com
*[https://sites.google.com/site/elephantartillery/ Elephant Artillery] sites.google.com "The Elephant Batteries were also known as Bail Batteries, Bail being the Hindustani for oxen"
* Victorian Wars Forum [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6181#p24598 thread] by Frogsmile which dates and identifies two photographs (refer [[Artillery elephants#Photographs and drawings|above]]) and provides much additional information about elephant batteries.
*[http://gallimafry.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/second-anglo-burmese-war-elephant.html "Britain’s Fighting Elephants"] by H J Chuter ''Everybody’s Magazine'' August 1900 together with additional images. gallimafry.blogspot.com.
*[http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_majservants_heavies.htm "Heavy Batteries in India"] by Lt-Col Roger Ayers www.kipling.org.uk
*[http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=267290 Thread] about guns carried on elephants' backs. theminiaturespage.com
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2021%20No%206/otherstories.html#story1 Bringing up elephants: 1812 book in the Saraswati Mahal Library] by Pradeep Chakravarthy ''Madras Musings'' Vol. XXI No. 6, July 1-15, 2011
*[http://madrasmusings.com/Vol%2022%20No%204/elephants-over-the-centuries.html Elephants over the centuries] by A. Raman ''Madras Musings'' Vol. XXII No. 4, June 1-15, 2012
*Catalogue entry Liddell Hart Military Archives King’s College London [http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/lhcma/collection/a-e/bl65-001 Block, Col Arthur Hugh (1859-1931)] Four copy photographs of 9 Western Div (Heavy Bde) and 72 Company (Heavy Bde), Royal Garrison Artillery, in India, showing elephant battery manoeuvres and parade, 1898-1900. kingscollections.org
*Newspaper article [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/74479020 "Elephant Artillery. The Most Curious Corps In The British Army"].''The Colac Herald Friday 25 June 1915'' trove.nla.gov.au
*[http://cbi-theater.home.comcast.net/~cbi-theater/elephants/elephants.html Elephants at war, in Burma, World War 2] from "China - Burma - India: Remembering the Forgotten Theater of World War II"
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