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**Indian Army. There is an incorrectly titled dataset "British Army, Indian Volunteer Force Medal Awards 1915-1939", located under Armed forces & conflict/Medal rolls and honours. The information for each transcript was extracted from the Indian Army Orders by Kevin Asplin.
**findmypast category "Armed Forces & Conflict/ Other Wars & Conflicts" contains a database
*:"British Subjects Who Died In The Service Of The Indian Empire", (introduced 2018/08/10).<ref>[https://searchwww.awin1.com/cread.php?awinmid=2114&awinaffid=201071&clickref=&p=%5B%5Bhttps%253A%252F%252Fsearch.findmypast.co.uk/search%252Fsearch-world-Records/british%252Fbritish-subjects-who-died-in-the-service-of-the-indian-empire %5D%5D British Subjects Who Died In The Service Of The Indian Empire] findmypast, (introduced 2018/08/10).</ref> No details of the source of this database is provided, but it is most likely taken from the Naval & Military Press reprint ''Soldiers Of The Raj'', originally in two volumes published in 1910 as ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest''. The latter two volumes are available online, (free), see [[Cemeteries#Inscriptions in online books|Cemeteries - Inscriptions in online books]]. and note that the content does not appear to be restricted to "Armed Forces & Conflict".
** See [[South Africa]] for details of the database "South Africa Roll Of Honour 1914-1918".
*findmypast category "Newspapers and periodicals". Online newspapers. Includes ''The Times of India'' database 1861-1888, with planned extension to 1889. See [[Newspapers]].

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