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''The Green Tiger'' is the journal of The Royal Leicestershire Regiment, first published 1904. Available to read [http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/journals online] from the website of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment
== External Links links =====Historical Books Onlinebooks online===
*''Historical Record of the Seventeenth, or the Leicestershire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848'' by Richard Cannon 1848 [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC Google Books]. Indian Service commences [http://books.google.com/books?id=19TttGk-V5sC&pg=PA31 page 31] in 1804
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.501563/2015.501563.Bengal-Past#page/n115/mode/2up 17th Regiment in India 1804-1822] pages 102-103 "Scraps of Fort William Regimental History (continued)" ''Bengal Past and Present'' Volume 53 January-June 1937. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
===Other===
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120525001339/http://www.militarybadges.org.uk/leicregto%201914.htm The 17th Regiment of Foot (Leicestershire Regiment):Their deployment – 1798-1914] by David Stevens from Militarybadges.org.uk, now an archived website.
*[http://web.archive.org/web/20071214220428/www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/017Leics.htm The Royal Leicestershire Regiment] including deployments: [http://web.archive.org/web/20071216143624/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/017-1.htm 1st Battalion], [http://web.archive.org/web/20071218204108/http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/reg-inf/017-2.htm 2nd Battalion] Regiments.org, an archived site
*[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/index.html The Royal Anglian Regiment Museum]. Covers the Royal Norfolk Regiment ([[9th Regiment of Foot|9th Foot]]), the Royal Lincolnshire Regiment ([[10th Regiment of Foot|10th Foot]]), the Suffolk Regiment ([[12th Regiment of Foot|12th Foot]]), the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment ([[16th Regiment of Foot|16th Foot]]), the Royal Leicestershire Regiment ( 17th Foot)), the Essex Regiment ([[44th Regiment of Foot|44th]]/ [[56th Regiment of Foot|56th Foot]]), and the Northamptonshire Regiment ([[48th Regiment of Foot|48th]]/ [[58th Regiment of Foot|58th Foot]]).
**[http://www.royalanglianmuseum.org.uk/leicestershire.html The Royal Leicestershire Regiment (17th Foot)]
*The Archives of the Leicestershire Regiment are held at the [http://www.leics.gov.uk/index/leisure_tourism/local_history/recordoffice/recordoffice_resources.htm Record Office for Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland]
*[http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_deever1.htm "Danny Deever"] Notes by Roger Ayers on the Rudyard Kipling poem of this name. It is thought to be based on the execution of Private Flaxman, of the 2nd Battalion, The Leicestershire Regiment, for the wilful murder of a lance-sergeant. kiplingsociety.co.uk :Scroll to the article [http://www.kiplingjournal.com/acrobat/KJ334.pdf "A Military Execution in India"] by Ray Beck in ''The Kipling Journal'' December 2009 pages 22-30. This article gives an account of the execution by hanging of No.2638 Private George Flaxman of the 2nd Battalion Leicestershire Regiment at Lucknow on 10 January 1887, including an eyewitness account, “for the wilful murder of Lance Sergeant William Carmody of the 1st Battalion Leicestershire Regiment at Ranakit on or about the 9th of September 1886” kiplingjournal.com*[http://eddieolliffe.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/social-history-george-olliffe-victorian-army-bandsman-british-india/ George Olliffe – Victorian army bandsman, British India] Family website. He served in the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment 1901-1913 and was in India March 1903 to October 1906. Includes some pages from ''The Green Tiger''. ([http://eddieolliffe.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/social-history-george-william-olliffe-victorian-pauper-and-bandsman-in-british-india/ Part 1, Childhood]). ([http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:9bzOCao6_EYJ:eddieolliffe.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/social-history-george-olliffe-victorian-army-bandsman-british-india/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=au Cached] URL)
*[http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk The Royal Leicestershire Regiment]
**Citation for the Military Medal: 1st Bn The Leicestershire Regiment 4533116 Lance Corporal John Farry, June 1939 near Razmak Zerai in Waziristan. [http://www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/5%20Farry%20MM%20citation%2026%20Sep%2039.pdf pdf], [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:CZNJQ1gcQZsJ:www.royalleicestershireregiment.org.uk/_ui/citations/5%2520Farry%2520MM%2520citation%252026%2520Sep%252039.pdf+Razmak+Brigade+Waziristan+1939&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjEy0oBWkzlmwTlBXegmxp_FEAy6vArkm7uUi31S6tkMJNqqw9CYe9CfCc5EWy1MHnJBnjQftSxPApqT4HJA6McuZqm5ZZfhEvn10P5CGjcGOI7fGqP-J7rhyppIt6nbzSB6BNV&sig=AHIEtbRplKsBZ-SVYv4G43Eail_HoE4CrA html version]
