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*[http://www.newrider.com/Library/How_it_Was/mules.html About Mules c 1937] Extracts from the ''Manual of Horsemastership, Equitation, and Animal Transport'' 1937 - Published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office: London.
*[http://www.merchantnavyofficers.com/richardtrooping.html British India Steam Navigation Company Ltd. Trooping with Richard Douglas Crow] includes a short account of transporting a Mule Corps from Bombay to Marseilles in WW2
*[httphttps://www.hindustantimes.com/punjab/chandigarh/force-k6-indian-troops-in-france/article1story-1062520Sqq8GVn7QELe6YFORD4tiL.aspx html "Force K6: Indian troops in France"] by Mandeep Singh Bajwa, ''Hindustan Times'' May 19, 2013. Consisted of 22, 25, 29 and 32 Mule Companies and a supply depot, a reinforcement unit, part of an Indian General Hospital, and a remount section sent to France, reaching there in December 1939. The men were subsequently evacuated from Dunkirk and then spent time in Britain.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20151007003206/http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/stories/men-of-royal-indian-army.php The men of the Royal Indian Army Service Corps (RIASC) Mule Companies - the retreat to Dunkirk] cwgc.org, now an archived webpage.
**In Wales: [http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/wales/archive/bbc-north-west-wales-history-ww2-royal-indian-army-visit.pdf BBC North West Wales] The 22nd company got captured by the Germans just before Dunkirk
