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=== Entry Papers<br /> ===

'''East India Company'''<br />Entry papers for officer cadets 1789-1860: L/MIL/9/107-254. Name of cadet, birth/baptism details, parentage, educational testimonials. Index shelved in the Reading Room. For recruitment registers and embarkation lists for other ranks, see I.A. Baxter, India Office Library and Records: A Brief Guide to Biographical Sources.

For records of service for officers, surgeons, departmental warrant officers, Non-Commissioned Officers (NCO) and privates, see Ian A. Baxter's ''India Office Library and Records:'' ''A Brief Guide to Biographical Sources'' (FHL book 016.954 B334b). For officers of the Bengal Army 1758-1834, see V.C.P. Hodson, ''List of the Officers of the Bengal Army'', 4 vols (London, 1927-1947) (FHL book 942 M23h). For surgeons, see D.G. Crawford's ''Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930 ''(London, 1930) (FHL film 454,945). Also see D.G. Crawford's ''A List of Indian Medical Service 1600-1913'' (FHL film 454,944).

'''Maritime Service Statements'''<br />Statements were compiled in 1834 when maritime servants received compensation payments at the abolition of the East India Company mercantile marine: L/MAR/C/849-850G. The payment applied only to those still serving in 1834 and was given to officers, surgeons, boatswains, carpenters and gunners.

* Baptism certificates and certificates of competence for midshipmen 1820-1830: L/MAR/C/671. <br />

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'''Poplar Pension Fund'''<br />This fund was applied to officers and seamen of the East India Company mercantile marine and their families. The main series are the Application Papers 1809-1838: L/MAR/C/789-840. Indexes: L/MAR/C/785-786. Complete service records given, also details of marriages and of baptisms of children.

'''Lord Clive Military Fund'''<br />This fund provided benefits for officers and other ranks of the East India Company armies and for their widows but not their children c1770-c1893: L/AG/23/2 series. These were ''ex gratia'' pensions awarded on a charitable basis and not as of right; there were no subscriptions to the Fund. The records include pensions paid both in India and Britain. The volume has an index giving the names of officers and widows who were beneficiaries.

'''Bengal Military Fund'''<br />This fund provided benefits for the widows of officers, surgeons and chaplains of the Bengal Army: L/AG/23/6 series. Index: L/AG/23/6/12. Closed to new subscribers 1862. Subscriber's name, date of birth and marriages, promotions, date of retirement and death, date of wife's/wives' birth and death.

'''Bengal Military Orphan Society'''<br />This fund provided benefits for the children (both legitimate and illegitimate) of officers, chaplains and (until 1823) surgeons of the Bengal Army: L/AG/23/7 series. Index: L/AG/23/6/12. Closed to new subscribers 1861. Names of deceased subscribers' children, their dates of birth and amounts paid to them.

'''Madras Military Pension Fund'''<br />This fund provided benefits for the widows and children of officers, chaplains and (until 1823) surgeons of the Madras Army. Closed to new subscribers 1862. A volume of information edited from L/AG/23/10 is shelved in the Reading Room. Name of subscriber, dates of birth/baptism, marriages, retirement and death; name of wife/wives and dates of birth, remarriage and death; names of children, their dates of birth, dates of daughters' marriage, sometimes with husband's name.

'''Madras Medical Fund'''<br />This fund provided benefits for the widows and children of surgeons and veterinary surgeons of the Madras Army: L/AG/23/12. Closed to new subscribers 1862. The information provided is similar to other Funds.

'''Bengal, Madras and Bombay Civil Funds'''<br />These funds provided benefits for the widows and children of members of the East India Company/Indian Civil Service: L/AG/23/5, L/AG/23/8, and L/AG/23/11. Closed to new subscribers c1882-1885. The information provided is similar to other Funds.

'''Indian Military Service Family Pension Fund'''<br />This fund was established 1873. Closed to new subscribers 1914. Provided benefits for the widows and children of officers, surgeons and chaplains of the Indian Army. For family details of those who joined between 1873 and 1893, see L/AG/23/16/4-9 (Index: L/AG/23/16/10), and for those who joined between 1893 and 1914, see L/AG/23/16/31-41 (Indexes: L/AG/23/16/42-43). The information provided is similar to other Funds.

'''Indian Military Widows' and Orphans' Fund'''<br />Established 1915 in succession to the Indian Military Service Pension Fund. For family details of those who joined between 1915 and 1943, see L/AG/23/17/19-35 (Index: L/AG/23/17/36). The information provided is similar to other Funds.