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*''British & Indian Armies in the East Indies (1685-1935)'' by Alan Harfield 1984 is available at the [[British Library]]. History of British and Indian Armies in Sumatra, Java, Sarawak, Malaya and Singapore from 1685-1935. Includes names of officers and men buried in these areas. Also includes name lists of persons in some military units which served in these areas.
*See [[Malacca]] and [[Dutch]] for records for researching those with Dutch ancestry.
*Civil Service Lists are very useful if you are researching a government employee, but some may only contain more senior employees.
:Some ''Colonial Office List''s are available online, refer Historical books online below.
:Details of Government of Malaya Lists are set out in [https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofma0000chee/page/35 Government Lists] page 30 ''Bibliography of Malaya'' (Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library). The best collection of these Lists available in the UK appears to be at Cambridge University Library which holds, according to its catalogue,
:*''Straits Settlements Civil Service List'' 1883-1884, 1888, 1890, 1893, 1896-1917, 1920-1921
:*''Federated Malay States Civil Service List'' 1904-1905, 1908-1916, 1918-1919
:*''The Malayan Civil List'' 1921-1940
:The British Library also holds some editions, as does SOAS Library, University of London.
*There are Colonial Office files at the National Archives Kew relating to British Malaya. There is a finding aid, a published book (in thirteen volumes) ''Index to British Colonial Office files pertaining to British Malaya : 1838-1955'' compiled by Paul H Kratoska 1990, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006673270 (English language edition) (12 v. in 13).
