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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924028000101 ''Recollections of a Military Life''] by General Sir John Adye , RA 1895 Archive.org. He arrived when the Indian Mutiny broke out, and was in India nearly nine years.
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/21/1/111.full.pdf "An Episode of the Second Afghan War, 1878–79"] by Colonel J. M. Beamish ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1913;21:1 111-116. The author was Medical Officer for the Battery of Garrison Artillery-13/8 R.A.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiersindia00keat ''A Soldier's India''] by Clifford Keates. Large print edition 1988, first published 1986. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library. Edited from a manuscript ''Flashes of Light from the Storm of Life'' by Keates, Driver No 6278 (born 1864), of the 26th Field Battery, Royal Artillery in India who arrived at [[Neemuch]], 160 miles north of [[Mhow]] in November 1888. The account describes a march by a Reconnaissance Party between Neemuch and [[Ahmednagar]] in 1890.
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100037450601.0x000002 ''Thim Days Is Gone'']. Qatar Digital Library. A memoir written by Major Maurice Patrick O'Connor Tandy recounting his career, initially in the Royal Artillery in a Light Battery, and an Indian Mountain Battery in the 1930s. He then joined the Foreign and Political Department in October 1936, (page 33). Further details are in [http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/02/thim-days-is-gone-a-colonial-memoir.html Thim Days Is Gone – a colonial memoir] 16 February 2017 Untold lives blog, British Library.
* ''Seven Cantonments'' by Major SEG Ponder c 1938. The author was an Officer in the Royal Artillery, based in the North-West Frontier region, in 1937, and perhaps later, including [[Peshawar]]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527935 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. He was CO of a Light Battery, or Mountain Battery, where the gunners were British.
