Literature
- The Guides are the subject of George John Younghusband's book, The Story of the Guides, first published in March 1908.
- Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West" is about the Guides.
- M.M. Kaye's novel The Far Pavilions is about an officer in the Guides.
- Sir Peter Stark Lumsden & George Robert Elsmie, Lumsden of the Guides: A Sketch of the Life of Lieut.-Gen. Sir Harry Burnett Lumsden, KCSI, CB., with Selections from His Correspondence and Occasional Papers (London: J. Murray, 1900; facsimile edition by BiblioLife, 2010)
- Memoirs of General Sir Henry Dermot Daly, G.C.B., C.I.E. (1905) by Maj. H. Daly.
- The Leopard and the Cliff, a fictitious account of an incident in the North-West Frontier during the Third Anglo-Afghan War, was written by Wallace Breem, a Commissioned Officer in the Corps of Guides. Although not principally about the Guides it is contemporaneous and makes several references to them.
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