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:Other chapters from this book containing deployments in the region [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=323 Chapter 22 page 259] and [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=512 Chapter 35 page 430].
:[https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
* Account of [https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/161/mode/2up "Seaman Gunner Stan Smith", page 161] ''The True Glory : the Royal Navy, 1914-1939'' by Max Arthur 1996. A [https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth/mode/2up 2nd file] where the account commences page 227. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Smith was held as a prisoner at Baku by the Bolsheviks in very harsh conditions, also referred to as the "Black Hole of Baku". [https://web.archive.org/web/20201020234304/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-stan-smith-1524828.html "Obituary: Stan Smith"] by G K Johnson 9 Dec. 1995. independent.co.uk, archived
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Royal_Navy_mission_to_Enzeli 1920 Royal Navy mission to Enzeli] Wikipedia.
*"Spotting Mines from a Balloon" by Lieut. Audrey L C White [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BSZwdyVs8lYC&pg=PA37 pages 37-38] and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BSZwdyVs8lYC&pg=PA56 page 56] ''Popular Aviation January 1931''. Google Books. Post war mine clearing the sea for shipping and reopening the port of Constantinople. (The Balloonists may have been part of the RAF).
