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*[https://archive.org/details/thirteenthhussar00dura ''The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War''] by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Archive.org. The Regiment served in Mesopotamia from c July 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811391 ''With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia : 1916-1917''] by One of its Officers. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/highlandregiment00blamuoft/page/n7/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org. The author is elsewhere stated to be Harold John Blampied, [[73rd Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)]].
: ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/1/mode/2up ''Volume One''] including 2nd Battalion in [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/230/mode/2up Mesopotamia] page 203. Digital Archive@McMaster University Library. [https://archive.org/details/historyblackwatch-vol1/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. One'', Archive.org version].
*[https://archive.org/stream/scottishhistoric16edinuoft#page/312/mode/2up "The Seaforth Highlanders, August 1914 to April 1916"] by H.H.E. Craster pages 309-324 ''Scottish Historical Review 16'', 1919 Archive.org. Includes a Battalion of the Seaforths in Mesopotamia from the end of 1915, taking part in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve Kut.
*[https://archive.org/details/leicestershiresb00thomrich ''The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad''] by Edward J Thompson MC 1919 Archive.org. The author was an Army chaplain, (Methodist), with the 2nd Leicesters, and a scholar & writer.<ref name=TDJ>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190611114923/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf June 2019 catalogue] turnerdonovan.com.</ref>. Also see Fiction below.
*[https://archive.org/details/caughtbyturks00yeatuoft ''Caught by the Turks''] by Francis Yeats-Brown 1919 Archive.org The author was a member of the Royal Flying Corps who was captured near Baghdad in 1915. Also by the same author ''Bengal Lancer'', (1930) which contains a chapter on his time in Mesopotamia prior to his capture: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58995 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208478 Another Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Golden Horn'' by Francis Yeats-Brown 1932 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209036 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. "A sketch of the political activities in Turkey from 1908 to the world war, and an account of the author's experiences as a prisoner of war of Turkey. This latter part (chap. V-XI) is a revision of the author's book published in 1919 under title: ''Caught by the Turks''." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonerinturkey00stiluoft ''A Prisoner in Turkey''] by John Still 1920 Archive.org. Contains some comments concerning the prisoners from Kut. A book in the ''On Active Service'' Series
=====Volunteer and other accounts=====
*[https://archive.org/details/tobagdadwithbrit00clar ''To Bagdad with the British''] by Arthur Tillotson Clark, 1918 Archive.org. The author, an American undergraduate student, volunteered to work with the YMCA in Mesopotamia, where he ran a YMCA hut in various locations, following the troops.
