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Mesopotamia Campaign

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*[https://archive.org/details/loyalnorthlancashirereg/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Volume 2 1914-1919''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1933. Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunrunninggulf/page/145/mode/2up "Rifle Thieves of Iraq"] page 146 ''Gun-running in the Gulf and Other Adventures'' by Brig.-Gen. H H Austin (Herbert Henry) 1926 Archive.org
*Articles from ''The Army Quarterly'', all Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv3-1921/page/77/mode/2up '"The Memory of a Side-Show"] by H B R page 77 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 3, 1921 October- 1922 January. Kurna Mesopotamia, the land of the Marsh Arabs.
**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv6-1923/page/n33/mode/2up "Kut-Ul-Amarah"] by Major-General J C Rimington page 17 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 6, 1923 April- July.
**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv7-1923/page/329/mode/2up Notes on the Military Geography of Iraq] by Captain R J Wilkinson I A page 329 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 7, 1923 October- 1924 January
**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv7-1923/page/n377/mode/2up “A Tribal War”] by R H D page 345 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 7, 1923 October- 1924 January. The Persian road in Mesopotamia in 1918.
**"Some Aspects of Maude’s Campaign in Mesopotamia" by Major R H Dewing R E.
***[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv13-1926/page/297/mode/2up Part 1] page 297 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 13, 1926 October- 1927 January.
***[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv14-1927/page/69/mode/2up Part 2] page 69; [https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv14-1927/page/n417/mode/2up Part 3] page 347 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 14, 1927 April- July
 
======Siege of Kut and Prisoner of War accounts======
Includes accounts by Medical Officers and Royal Flying Corps members.
:[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32379/page/5321 Four Despatches from the Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force]: Despatch No 1, dated 17th January 1920 from MacMunn, covering the period November 1919 to 17th January 1920. Despatches from Lieutenant-General Haldane, covering the periods: 18th January 1920 to 30th June 1920 in Mesopotamia and NW Persia. [Despatch No 2 dated 23rd August 1920. Page 5323]; 1st July 1820 to 19th October 1920 [Despatch No 3 dated 8th November 1920, page 5329] Despatch No 4, dated 8th February 1921 (page 5347) ''The London Gazette'' 1 July 1921 Issue: 32379 Page:5321.
*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/39/5/354.full.pdf "Narrative of a March into Kurdistan during the Rebellion of 1919"] by Captain J. C. Burns ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1922;39:5 pages 354-371
*[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv11-1925/page/85/mode/2up "The Campaign in South Kurdistan, 1919"] by the Rev. J Cethin Jones (Chaplain to Fraser’s Force) page 86 ''The Army Quarterly Volume 11, 1925 October- 1926 January''. Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t3319zt4k?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Review of the civil administration of Mesopotamia''] by Gertrude L Bell. Issued by the India Office December 1920. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/reviewofciviladm00iraqrich/page/n2 Archive.org].
:''The Letters of Gertrude Bell'' published 1927. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209780 ''Volume I''], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.70327 ''Volume II'']. Mainly letters sent to her family. ''Volume II'' is in respect of her time in Baghdad 1917-1926.
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