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:[https://archive.org/details/gri_33125012884603 ''Our trip to Burmah. With notes on that country''] by Surgeon-General Charles Alexander Gordon, Army Medical Department, Principal Medical Officer, British Forces, Madras Presidency. 1877 Archive.org
*Gosse - [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower'' (1934)] by Philip Gosse. Archive.org, mirror edition from the Digital Library of India. Full title/some editions: ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. The author was a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917, in the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division, then appointed Rat Officer to the 2nd Army, who subsequently served in India, based at Poona, 1917-1918. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*Howlett - [https://archive.org/details/commonwealthempi34londuoft/page/328/mode/2up "Lost in the Desert. A Frontier Incident"] by Arthur Waltham Howlett (Major, RAMC), page 328 '' The Empire Review'' catalogued as ''The Commonwealth & Empire Review'' Volume 34, 1920 Archive.org. This incident occurred in the extreme west of Baluchistan, near the border with Persia and Afghanistan, most likely in 1919.
*Laing - [https://www.jstor.org/stable/44225104 "The Journal of Patrick Sinclair Laing Assistant Surgeon, 86th Regiment, 1842-1848"] by H B Eaton. ''Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research'' Vol. 62, No. 250 (Summer 1984), pp. 74-89. Register and read online for free. jstor.org. The diary extracts commence October 1844.
:[https://wellcomelibrary.org/item/b18395429 Online draft of this article] Wellcome Library RAMC/1582, catalogued as "Draft of "The journal of Patrick Sinclair Laing, assistant surgeon, 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot, 1842 to 1847, in India"". Note, the draft is longer, and has information from 1842.
*Preston - Alexander Francis Preston [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2095088/The-REAL-Dr-Watson-The-Victorian-army-medic-inspiration-Sherlocks-trusty-sidekick.html Surgeon-Major Alexander Francis Preston: The REAL Dr Watson: The Victorian army medic who was the inspiration for Sherlock's trusty sidekick] by Annabel Venning 2 February 2012 www.dailymail.co.uk. He was medical officer with the [[66th Regiment of Foot]] and was wounded in the [[Battle of Maiwand]], an action in the [[2nd Afghan War]]. [http://www.thewardrobe.org.uk/research/contact-us/support-us/the-collection/detail/24986 Photograph], with details from The Wardrobe.
*Thomsett - [http://archive.org/stream/kohatkuramandkh00thogoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''Kohat, Kuram, and Khost; Or, Experiences and Adventures in the Late Afghan War''] by Richard Gillham-Thomsett, Surgeon, Army Medical Department 1884 Archive.org. He was initially appointed to the 20A Battery of Artillery.
===Royal Air Force===
*[https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/n5 ''Fringe of the Clouds''] by Air Marshal Sir Philip Livingston 1962 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes [https://archive.org/details/fringeofclouds0036livi/page/96 "Chapter 5 India with the Royal Air Force 1920-1922"] page 97. The author was a medical officer with the RAF, based at [[Ambala]].
