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*[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
*''Records of Sport and Military Life in Western India'' by Lieut-Colonel Thomas Gamble Fraser 1881. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_000000034B12#?#loaded&c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-1219.2441%2C-125.3889%2C3886.4882%2C2507.7778 British Library Digital], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/101833 Pdf download, Digital Library of India]. Born 1807, he joined the Bombay Army, (1st Bombay Fusiliers), as a young Cadet, aged 16 c 1823 and retired 1st January 1856. Includes some reminiscences of James Outram.
*[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]]
