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*[http://books.google.com/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''Memoirs of the early life and service of a field officer on the retired list of the Indian army''] by Major David Price 1839 Google Books. Born in 1762, he was recruited into the East India Company Army in London in 1780 and was in the Bombay army until 1805. He died in 1835 and his obituary appears on [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=jIUEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA529 page 529]. Also see [[Scholars or antiquarians]]
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=xFIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Recollections of the Deccan, with Miscellaneous Sketches and Letters''], by an Officer of Cavalry (Junius (pseudonym)) 1838 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vTsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 ''Sketches of a Soldier's Life in India''] by Staff Sergeant Thomas Quinney, Hon. East India Company’s Service, 1853 Google Books. He arrived in Bombay May 1827 and transferred to the Bombay Artillery c 1830. He was invalided in January 1841.
** [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vTsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA175 Pension payments] page 175
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924024060166#page/n47/mode/2up ''Memories of a Long Life''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir David Davidson 1890 Archive.org. The author left for India in late 1827 for the Bombay Army, where he remained for [http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924024060166#page/n301/mode/2up 20 years]
*[https://archive.org/details/amemoirmajorgen00rawlgoog ''A Memoir of Major-General Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson''] by George Rawlinson 1898 Archive.org Born 1810, he joined the Bombay Army in 1827. In 1833 he was sent to Persia, the start of a long association with this country. He was recalled to India in 1839 and in 1840 was appointed Political Agent in Western Afghanistan and was involved in the [[1st Afghan War]] until the end of 1842. In October 1843 he was appointed “British Political Agent in Turkish Arabia” 1844-1849 and 1851-1855. He there resumed an interest in Cuneiform Studies. Also see [[Iran]]
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