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*[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1580028/Letters-of-forgotten-VC-winner-found.html Letters of forgotten VC winner found]. 27 February 2008 ''The Telegraph''. Retrieved 23 August 2014. Brevet Captain Robert Shebbeare won his medal during the infamous siege of Delhi in September 1857. Afterwards he put together a Sikh regiment, the 15th Punjab, which later saw action in China. Includes photograph with officers of his 15th Punjab regiment, "taken by Mr Beato in the British camp at Talien Hwan, Manchuria, on either 10 or 11 July 1860".<ref>Snook, Mike [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=80&t=9627&start=45#p47343 "mewafarosh"] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 20 August 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2014</ref>
**[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shebbeare Robert Shebbeare] Wikipedia
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140808040827/http://www.js-ww1.bham.ac.uk/articles/issue3_Connelly.pdf "The British Campaign in Aden, 1914-1918"] by Mark Connelly ''Journal of the Centre for First World War Studies Vol. 1, No. 3, 2005''. pages 65-96. now an archived web page. Includes brief mention of 23/Sikh Pioneers.
==Historical books online==
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023224490 ''With Mounted Infantry In Tibet''] by Brevet Major W J Ottley, 34th Sikh Pioneers 1906 Archive.org. The dedication mentions members of the 23rd Pioneers.
