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FIBIS resources
==FIBIS resources==
*FIBIS database: [https://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1135&s_id=340 Registers of Bengal Army European Soldiers] Currently (2017/6/16) consists of IOR/L/MIL/10/122-123, 1790-1839 but additional years are to follow.
*FIBIS database: [httphttps://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=679&s_id=137 Soldiers’ and Widows’ Pension details -1896] IOR/ L/MIL/14/214 & 215. Includes previous members of the Bengal,[[Madras Army|Madras]] and [[Bombay Army|Bombay Armies]], including men from the [[Unattached List]]. May also include a few members of the [[Indian Army]] which officially was formed in 1895. These records are available on LDS microfilm 2029979 Items 1-2 ([https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/774116 catalogue entry]), however the FIBIS database record contains all the information available in the microfilm.<ref>Bailey, Peter [https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/list/india@rootsweb.com/thread/785900/ Army Records] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 20 March 2012. Retrieved 6 September 2018.</ref>*FIBIS database: [httphttps://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_componentsbrowse_dataset&id=4942159&s_id=186 1117 Applications for Cadetships in the EIC Armies 1789-1860(Index)] includes Bengal Army. These are records for officers.*FIBIS database :[httphttps://www.search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=152&s_id=39 Lives of the Officers of the Bengal Army, 1758-1834] Index to book of same name by V. C .P. Hodson, 4 vols. Recommended on [http://wiki.fibis.org/index.php/Military_reading_list#HEIC_armies Fibiwiki Military Reading List]. Also see Books, below.*FIBIS database: [httphttps://search.fibis.org/frontis/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=378&s_id=14 War Services of Officers of the Bengal Army 1863]. Transcriptions from the book ''Ubique : War Services of all the Officers of HM's Bengal Army'' by Thomas C Anderson 1863. This book is available on LDS microfilm 2105290 Item 2 ([https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/819733?availability=Family%20History%20Library catalogue entry]), however Peter Bailey has advised the FIBIS database record contains all the information available in the microfilm.
*"Edward Squibb-Letters from a Bengal Cadet" by Charles Gordon Clark ''FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012)'' pages 15-24. Edward Squibb arrived in 1820. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
*"The Clark Brothers - Life in the Bengal Army" by Charles Gordon Clark ''FIBIS Journal Number 29 (Spring 2013)'' pages 3-14. Gordon Wyatt Clark arrived in 1842 age 20. See [[FIBIS Journals]] for details of how to access this article
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