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**[http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/India-ArtillerySergeantandFamily.html Artillery Sergeant & family] c 1900
**[http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/India-LtLeonardGeorgeWatkins.html Leonard George Watkins] Bombay 1886, with previous information on the [http://www.soldiersofthequeen.com/India.html India Home page]. He was appointed a Gentleman Cadet at the Royal Military Academy on 20 September, 1878 Although is seems the Watkins remained in the Royal Artillery for his entire career to c 1914 it was while seconded to the Indian Ordnance Department
*Details<ref> BingandNelsonFan. [http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=12921 A Funeral in India (1872)] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 11 March 2019. Retrieved 12 March 2019. Originally from ''Broad Arrow'' 06 Jan 1872, page 28, available online on findmypast, and the British Newspaper Archive.</ref> of the funeral of Dudley Maryon Wilson, Lieutenant and Local Captain, Royal Artillery who died at [[Rawal Pindi]] November 1871.
*Article: [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1229067/One-British-soldiers-diaries-bloody-battle-Afghanistan-130-years-ago-provide-haunting-insight-horrors-troops-face-now.html "The amazing story of Bobbie, the bravest dog of war, as told in a British soldier's diary of a bloody battle in Afghanistan 130 years ago"] by Geoffrey Wansell 19 November 2009 www.dailymail.co.uk. Describes letters written by Captain John Slade of the Royal Horse Artillery about the [[Battle of Maiwand]] in 1880, an action in the [[2nd Afghan War]]
*[http://www.members.dca.net/fbl/obrien.html Master Gunner, later Major & Quarter Master, John O'Brien, Royal Artillery] His first active service was as an underage Trumpeter in the 2nd Afghan War 1878-1880, attached to the 6th Battery, 8 th Brigade, Royal Artillery. He saw active service in India to 1888. members.dca.net
