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*[[Commissariat]], or Army Supply. This Department was responsible for elephants.
==Photographs and drawings==
*[httphttps://collections.royalarmouries.org/indexobject/rac-object-1761.php?a=wordsearch&s=gallery&w=elephant+armour&go=GO html Photographs of elephant Elephant armour from 1600] with a [http://www.royalarmouries.org/visit(bargustavan-us/leeds/leedsi-galleries/oriental/visitpil) (17th century -us/leeds/leeds-galleries/oriental/india/single-object/2 description18th century)] Click on Media for additional photographs. Royal Armouries, Leeds, UK*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150319050741/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/px2d10.jpg "An Artillery Elephant on Duty"], hand-coloured lithograph by Captain C. Gold; 1799 from [https://web.archive.org/web/20150128013125/http://www.lib.lsu.edu/special/exhibits/e-exhibits/india/chap2.htm British Voices from South Asia] Louisiana State University, now archived webpages.*[httphttps://bookscollection.googlenam.comac.uk/booksdetail.php?idacc=6eoFnaqQ0MQC&pg=PA26 1956-08-6-17 An elephant pulling a field gun, 1858] Photograph of by Felice Beato NAM. 1956-08-6-17. National Army Museum. Previously elsewhere identified as a Royal Artillery elephant battery at Lucknow 1858] <ref>''Victoria's Wars'', page 26 by Ian Frederick William Beckett 1998 previously available online on Google Books. The same [http://www.nam.ac.uk/, now unavailable online-collection/images/480/105000-105999/105876.jpg photograph] is also available at the National Army Museum with these [http:/</www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?q=searchType%3Dsimple%26simpleText%3Dindian%2520mutiny%26themeID%3D%26resultsDisplay%3Dlist%26page%3D6&pos=17&total=299&page=6&acc=1956-08-6-17 details] ref>*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3907822106/in/photostream Drawing of "Peshawur Mountain train in the line of March 1877"], showing guns loaded on the elephants' backs. flickr.com *[https://www.britishbattles.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/16-Elephant-battery.jpg Drawing: Royal Artillery Elephant Battery: Battle of Charasiab] from [http://www.britishbattles.com/second-afghan-war/charasiab.htm Drawing of "An elephant battery advances through the mountains "] from The Battle of Charasiab "] 6th October 1879, [[2nd Afghan War]] (scroll down) Britishbattles.com
*[http://www.harappa.com/hawkshaw/11.html Photograph of "Elephant Battery 12/9 R.A. in action - Morar Gwalior, 1881"] from Major Hawkshaw’s [http://www.harappa.com/hawkshaw/intro.html India Album] Harappa.com
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924000918486#page/n65/mode/2up Drawing of a "Shaft Elephant of Heavy Field Battery Gun (from the Artillery Manual)"] , between pages lii and liii of the Introduction in ''A manual of the diseases of the elephant and of his management and uses'' by John Henry Steel 1885 Archive.org
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/elephants1880s.jpg Photograph of "The Elephant Battery, Artillery Lines, Peshawar" c.1880's] from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1800_1899/britishrule/troops/troops.html this page] of Prof Fran Pritchett’s Indian Routes website
*[http://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cph.3b25942/ Photograph of "Elephant battery of heavy artillery along the Khyber Pass at Campbellpur, 1895"] with [http://lccn.loc.gov/2004707363 details] Library of Congress
*[http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/16854/lot/339 Photograph Elephant Battery Tirah Campaign 1897] bonhams.com. Click on the small picture to enlarge. From an album of views of the Tirah Campaign. Probably taken at the same time as the following photograph.*[http://books.google.com/books?id=6QXYfAi0FUsC&pg=PA18 Photograph of an elephant battery during the Pathan Revolt 1897], with guns loaded on the elephant backs. ''The British Army on Campaign 4 1882-1902'', page 18 by Michael Barthorp 1988 Google Books
*[http://www.search.staffspasttrack.org.uk/Details.aspx?&ResourceID=6145 Photograph of "Elephant Battery on Parade, Jhansi, India c 1899"] Staffordshire Past-Track
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20150925230931/http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargementstock-photo/rights-managed/HU052533.html /elephant-battery Photograph of "Elephant Battery Gwalior c 1935"] Heavy artillery is transported to a hill station by a team of Indian elephants. Corbis Images. , now an archived webpage, Gwalior was a [[Princely states|Princely State]]* An elephant battery: [http://imgzoomark.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt2n39r2zq/z1&order=2&brand=calisphere kt158026wp Photograph 1] and [http://imgzoomark.cdlib.org/Fullscreen.ics?ark=ark:/13030/kt6199r6rv/z1&order=2&brand=calisphere kt2n39r2zq photograph 2] from [http://content.cdlib.org/search?facet=type-tab&relation=calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu&style=cui&keyword=Military+elephants+india&x=35&y=12 a group of photographs, University of California]. Identified as a British Heavy Battery of around 1895, refer [[Artillery elephants#External links|External links]] below.*[http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1899-24712 Photograph: Battery division elephant c 1895]. superstock.com. An Indian mahout (elephant handler) dressed in military uniform and turban sits on the shoulders of an elephant working in the Heavy Battery division of the Royal Artillery.
==Historical books online==
*This [http://books.google.com/books?id=V50bAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA451 extract] includes wording from a 1784 book<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=YncIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA239 ''The History of Ayder Ali Khan, Nabob-Bahader: or, New Memoirs Concerning the East Indies. Volume 1''], page 239 by M. M. D. L. T. 1784 Google Books</ref> and refers to the skill of the elephants in the Army of Hyder Ali. "It can hardly be imagined how useful these elephants are, nor with what skill and intelligence they do their work". "Baggage of the Indian Army" ''Calcutta Review, Volume 11 January-June 1849'', page 445
*[http://7fd-regt-raa-association.com/Documents/UK%20Artlillery%20terms%20and%20abbreviations.doc Glossary of Royal Artillery. Terms and Abbreviations (Historical and Modern) by Philip Jobson]. Includes the entry 'Bail Battery'. These were Heavy Batteries in India in the 1890's comprised of Elephant drawn guns. "At the beginning ot the 20th Century, with the introduction of Breech-Loading guns for the Heavy Batteries, the Elephants and Bullocks were replaced with teams of eight heavy horses" 7fd-regt-raa-association.com. Note, this is a download, and depending on your browser, you may need to locate in your downloads folder.
*[https://sites.google.com/site/elephantartillery/ Elephant Artillery] sites.google.com "The Elephant Batteries were also known as Bail Batteries, Bail being the Hindustani for oxen"
*Victorian Wars Forum thread<ref>Frogsmile. [https://web.archive.org/web/20131114125457/http://www.victorianwars.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=6181 Identify details: photos of artillery elephants, India] ''Victorian Wars Forum'' 29 October 2011, now archived. </ref> by Frogsmile which dates and identifies two photographs (refer [[Artillery elephants#Photographs and drawings|above]]) and provides much additional information about elephant batteries.
*[http://www.kipling.org.uk/rg_majservants_heavies.htm "Heavy Batteries in India"] by Lt-Col Roger Ayers www.kipling.org.uk
*[http://theminiaturespage.com/boards/msg.mv?id=267290 Thread] about guns carried on elephants' backs. theminiaturespage.com
