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===Historical books online===
 
===Historical books online===
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====Histories and general====
 
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium'' by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
 
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium'' by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
 
**[http://www.1914-1918.net/official.html The Official Histories of the Great War] 1914-1918.net. Details the various volumes.
 
**[http://www.1914-1918.net/official.html The Official Histories of the Great War] 1914-1918.net. Details the various volumes.
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*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI]  Archive.org.
 
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI]  Archive.org.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/sixtysquadronraf00scot ''Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. : a History of the Squadron from its Formation''] by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott 1920 Archive.org. Originally Royal Flying Corps.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/sixtysquadronraf00scot ''Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. : a History of the Squadron from its Formation''] by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott 1920 Archive.org. Originally Royal Flying Corps.
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*[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland waterways and docks, royal engineers in war time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain  A E Battle, RE  ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116.  Includes mention of Train Ferries from 1917. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
 
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines  1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes chapters on France.
 
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines  1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes chapters on France.
 
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/a_record_of_the_battles_and_engagements_of_the_british_armies_1914-1918_0.pdf  ''A Record of the Battles and Engagements of the British Armies in France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by Captain E A James 48th (South Midland) Divisional Signals T A  1924. army.gov.au
 
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/a_record_of_the_battles_and_engagements_of_the_british_armies_1914-1918_0.pdf  ''A Record of the Battles and Engagements of the British Armies in France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by Captain E A James 48th (South Midland) Divisional Signals T A  1924. army.gov.au
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**[https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00buchrich ''The History of the South African Forces in France''] by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org
 
**[https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00buchrich ''The History of the South African Forces in France''] by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org
 
*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders''  by Arthur Conan Doyle [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl  ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl  ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft  ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign00doyluoft  ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920. Archive.org.
 
*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders''  by Arthur Conan Doyle [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl  ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl  ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft  ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign00doyluoft  ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207441 ''The Silent Cities: an illustrated guide to the war cemeteries and memorials to the 'Missing' in France and Flanders: 1914-1918''] by Sidney C. Hurst 1929. Photographs are  dark, without detail. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
 
*'''Medical Services'''
 
**''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services'', and other books regarding Medical Services. See [[First World War#Historical books online 2|First World War-Historical books online]].
 
**[https://archive.org/details/WW1ArmyMedDeptHistV8 ''The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War Volume 8: Field Operations''] Prepared under the direction of Maj Gen  M W Ireland, Surgeon General 1925.  Archive.org. Mainly about the Western Front. Other volumes in this series [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28medicine%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Medical+Department+of+the+United+States+Army+in+the+World+War%29&sort=-date Archive.org]
 
**[https://archive.org/details/withroyalarmyme00vivigoog ''With the Royal Army Medical Corps (R. A. M. C.) at the Front''] by E Charles Vivian 1914 Archive.org. Includes chapters on Composition and Duties, Training etc.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/surgeoninkhaki01mart ''A Surgeon in Khaki''] by Arthur Anderson Martin 1915 Archive.org. Includes the  process of the author’s commission, description of a Field Ambulance structure.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/withfieldambulan00boyduoft ''With a Field Ambulance at Ypres : being letters written March 7-August 15, 1915''] by William Boyd 1916. Archive.org. The author was a doctor.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/fieldambulancesk00londuoft ''Field Ambulance Sketches''] by A Corporal. 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
 
**[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower''(1934)] by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org]  Full title/some editions:  ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title  ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed  as Rat Officer to the Second Army.  The author was  a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917  who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC.1917. Archive.org.  The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany  c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
 
**[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org
 
**Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Hospitals%2C+charities%2C+etc%22&sort=-date  World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc] Many are about the Western Front.
 
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000004064699?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '' "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse''] [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Boylston was an American nurse  who left for France  with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at  General Hospital No. 22,  British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. [https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984-part-ii/ Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service] authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the ''Sue Barton, Nurse''  series of books for girls.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, during WW1 Leese was an Army Veterinary Surgeon on the Western Front working with horses, with a prior short period in East Africa, and later also purchased camels for the Army in Somaliland. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist polititian.
 
*'''Secret Service and Spies'''
 
**[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
 
**[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
 
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/allsfairstoryofb00henr ''All's Fair : the Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines''] by Captain Henry Landau 1934 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Landau_(captain) Henry Landau] Wikipedia.
 
*:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Secrets of the White Lady''] by Captain Henry Landau 1935 HathiTrust Digital Library
 
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527793 ''Mata Hari''] by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: ''Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy'', first published 1930. Archive.org,
 
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041190870?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Spies I Knew''] by Marthe McKenna 1934 HathiTrust Digital Library. Belgian  Marthe Cnockaert, 'Laura' of the British Intelligence Service.
 
**[https://archive.org/details/modernspiestellt00rich ''Modern spies tell their stories : personal narratives of many exploits in secret service''] edited by Richard W Rowan 1934 Archive.org.
 
*[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland waterways and docks, royal engineers in war time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain  A E Battle, RE  ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116.  Includes mention of Train Ferries from 1917. Melboune University Digital Collection.
 
 
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027946619 ''Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers''] by  Major H Hesketh-Prichard [1920].  Archive.org. First Army School of S.O.S.
 
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027946619 ''Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers''] by  Major H Hesketh-Prichard [1920].  Archive.org. First Army School of S.O.S.
 
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000050752.0x000002  ''Strategic Camouflage'']  by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file.
 
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000050752.0x000002  ''Strategic Camouflage'']  by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file.
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207441 ''The Silent Cities: an illustrated guide to the war cemeteries and memorials to the 'Missing' in France and Flanders: 1914-1918''] by Sidney C. Hurst 1929. Photographs are  dark, without detail. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
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====Medical Services including Veterinary====
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*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services'', and other books regarding Medical Services. See [[First World War#Historical books online 2|First World War-Historical books online]].
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*[https://archive.org/details/WW1ArmyMedDeptHistV8 ''The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War Volume 8: Field Operations''] Prepared under the direction of Maj Gen  M W Ireland, Surgeon General 1925.  Archive.org. Mainly about the Western Front. Other volumes in this series [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28medicine%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Medical+Department+of+the+United+States+Army+in+the+World+War%29&sort=-date Archive.org]
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*[https://archive.org/details/withroyalarmyme00vivigoog ''With the Royal Army Medical Corps (R. A. M. C.) at the Front''] by E Charles Vivian 1914 Archive.org. Includes chapters on Composition and Duties, Training etc.
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*[https://archive.org/details/surgeoninkhaki01mart ''A Surgeon in Khaki''] by Arthur Anderson Martin 1915 Archive.org. Includes the  process of the author’s commission, description of a Field Ambulance structure.
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*[https://archive.org/details/withfieldambulan00boyduoft ''With a Field Ambulance at Ypres : being letters written March 7-August 15, 1915''] by William Boyd 1916. Archive.org. The author was a doctor.
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*[https://archive.org/details/fieldambulancesk00londuoft ''Field Ambulance Sketches''] by A Corporal. 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
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*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower''(1934)] by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org]  Full title/some editions:  ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title  ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed  as Rat Officer to the Second Army.  The author was  a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917  who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
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*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC.1917. Archive.org.  The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany  c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
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*[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
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*[https://archive.org/details/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org
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*Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Hospitals%2C+charities%2C+etc%22&sort=-date  World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc] Many are about the Western Front.
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*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000004064699?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '' "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse''] [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Boylston was an American nurse  who left for France  with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at  General Hospital No. 22,  British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. [https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984-part-ii/ Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service] authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the ''Sue Barton, Nurse''  series of books for girls.
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*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, during WW1 Leese was an Army Veterinary Surgeon on the Western Front working with horses, with a prior short period in East Africa, and later also purchased camels for the Army in Somaliland. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist politician.
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====Secret Service and Spies====
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*[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
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*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.
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*[https://archive.org/details/allsfairstoryofb00henr ''All's Fair : the Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines''] by Captain Henry Landau 1934 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Landau_(captain) Henry Landau] Wikipedia.
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:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Secrets of the White Lady''] by Captain Henry Landau 1935 HathiTrust Digital Library
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527793 ''Mata Hari''] by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: ''Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy'', first published 1930. Archive.org,
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*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041190870?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Spies I Knew''] by Marthe McKenna 1934 HathiTrust Digital Library. Belgian  Marthe Cnockaert, 'Laura' of the British Intelligence Service.
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*[https://archive.org/details/modernspiestellt00rich ''Modern spies tell their stories : personal narratives of many exploits in secret service''] edited by Richard W Rowan 1934 Archive.org.
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====Indian Army====
 
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include some India Office Records relating to the First World War. A  search using the key word India, and adjustment of the dates will locate the documents,  or see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records/ europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu], or the direct links include
 
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include some India Office Records relating to the First World War. A  search using the key word India, and adjustment of the dates will locate the documents,  or see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records/ europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu], or the direct links include
 
**IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2384  [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/mil/17/5/2384 Indian Force for Europe]. India Office Military Dept, 6 Sep 1914
 
**IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2384  [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/mil/17/5/2384 Indian Force for Europe]. India Office Military Dept, 6 Sep 1914
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**[https://archive.org/stream/yearofchivalry00cand#page/102/mode/2up "The Drabi"] [Mule Driver] page 103.
 
**[https://archive.org/stream/yearofchivalry00cand#page/102/mode/2up "The Drabi"] [Mule Driver] page 103.
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
 
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
*'''Army Service Corps'''
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====Army Service Corps====
**[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoloosbe00stewuoft ''From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer''] by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.
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*[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoloosbe00stewuoft ''From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer''] by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/lofclinesofcommu00agatrich ''L. of C. (Lines of Communication): being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps''] by Captain James E Agate 1917 Archive.org.
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*[https://archive.org/details/lofclinesofcommu00agatrich ''L. of C. (Lines of Communication): being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps''] by Captain James E Agate 1917 Archive.org.
**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half 
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. The author  was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division.  Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum''  8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>
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*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half 
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. The author  was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division.  Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum''  8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>
*'''Artillery'''
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====Artillery====
**[https://archive.org/details/withguns00foof ''With the Guns''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/withguns00foof ''With the Guns''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/makingofgunner00streiala ''The Making of a Gunner''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
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:[https://archive.org/details/makingofgunner00streiala ''The Making of a Gunner''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/servantsofguns00mars ''Servants of the Guns''] by Jeffrey E Jeffery [catalogued Jeffrey E Marston] 1917 Archive.org. Most of the soldiers in the Battery were Welsh. The author became a Prisoner of War.
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*[https://archive.org/details/servantsofguns00mars ''Servants of the Guns''] by Jeffrey E Jeffery [catalogued Jeffrey E Marston] 1917 Archive.org. Most of the soldiers in the Battery were Welsh. The author became a Prisoner of War.
**[https://archive.org/details/carryonlettersin00daws ''Carry On: Letters In War-Time''] by Coningsby Dawson, Canadian Field Artillery. 1917 Archive.org.  Letters dated July 16, 1916, to February 6, 1917. The author was a  Canadian novelist . Also published under the title ''Khaki Courage: Letters In War-Time''
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*[https://archive.org/details/carryonlettersin00daws ''Carry On: Letters In War-Time''] by Coningsby Dawson, Canadian Field Artillery. 1917 Archive.org.  Letters dated July 16, 1916, to February 6, 1917. The author was a  Canadian novelist . Also published under the title ''Khaki Courage: Letters In War-Time''
*:[https://archive.org/details/gloryoftrenchesi01daws ''The Glory Of The Trenches: An Interpretation''] by Coningsby Dawson 1917 Archive.org
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:[https://archive.org/details/gloryoftrenchesi01daws ''The Glory Of The Trenches: An Interpretation''] by Coningsby Dawson 1917 Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/livingbayonetsre1919daws ''Living Bayonets: a Record of the Last Push''] by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. Letters from April 14, 1917 to October 6, 1918.  
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:[https://archive.org/details/livingbayonetsre1919daws ''Living Bayonets: a Record of the Last Push''] by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. Letters from April 14, 1917 to October 6, 1918.  
**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1895&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Letters of a Headmaster Soldier''] Letters of  Harry Sackville Lawson, [Lieutenant RFA] 1918. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German.  Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
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*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1895&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Letters of a Headmaster Soldier''] Letters of  Harry Sackville Lawson, [Lieutenant RFA] 1918. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German.  Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
**[https://archive.org/details/pushedreturnpush00nich ''Pushed and the Return Push''] by Quex    [G H Nichols,  RFA] 1919 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/pushedreturnpush00nich ''Pushed and the Return Push''] by Quex    [G H Nichols,  RFA] 1919 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot  Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force). Also includes service in Egypt.
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*[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot  Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force). Also includes service in Egypt.
**[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
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*[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
**Also see Fiction below for sketches written  by Boyd Cable,  the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.
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*Also see Fiction below for sketches written  by Boyd Cable,  the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.
 
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**[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org
 
**[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org

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As the First World War progressed more troops were needed for the Western Front. To meet this demand Expeditionary Force A from India was sent to reinforce the British Troops – particularly in France.[1]

Many men who fell during these campaigns are honoured by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Amongst these are 4,742 soldiers from India whose names are recorded on the Neuve Chapelle Memorial in France. In 1964 these names were expanded to also commemorate 210 servicemen of India whose graves at Zehrensdorf Indian Cemetery in East Germany could not be maintained.

Related articles

War Diaries

Included in the many records held at the National Archives Kew is the series WO 95 - War Office: First World War and Army of Occupation War Diaries.

Some War Diaries, many of which are handwritten, have been digitised and are available (on a pay basis) online from various sources: from the National Archives through the Discovery catalogue[2], from Naval and Military Archive[3], part of Naval & Military Press, which also publishes print and DVD-ROM versions, and through Ancestry which contains the database "UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920" (selected war diaries only)[4] (and another database for Gallipoli). The Ancestry database also contains War Diaries for some Indian, Australian, New Zealand, and other regiments. Some transcribed war diaries edited by Martin Gillott. publisher Great War Diaries, for British Army regiments, are available in Kindle editions which have a Search facility (anyone with Kindle Unlimited can read them for free). (Download of a free Kindle App is available, you don't need Kindle).

Also see External links below.

There is also a record series, consisting of of printed volumes at the British Library called "Indian Army First World War - War Diaries" IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2421-4246 : 1914-1921, which includes Western Front War Diaries. The relevant records appear to be IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2421-2499.

The Australian War Memorial website[5] contains Australian and New Zealand Army War diaries (available for free).

Recommended reading

Recommended by Peter Moore on the Military reading list
"Sepoy in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15 by Gordon Corrigan, Kent, UK; first edition. 1999; 16 plates; 9 maps; hardcover; 274 pp. An excellent, updated account of the sufferings and heroism of the Indian regiments sent to France in the bitterest of winters clad only in tropical uniforms until transferred to the Mesopotamian Campaign in 1915. The author, a retired Major (late Royal Gurkha Rifles and ex-10GR), 1998), has an authentic feel for the old Indian Army and the times".

“Well worth tracking a copy, both as a fascinating book and a display of how good military history should be written.“[6]

For an interview with the author Gordon Corrigan, see below.

Indian treacle (opium)

On the Western Front, Sikh troops were supplied with Indian treacle, an euphemism for opium, which was part of their ration.[7]

External links

Video and transcript: "Illiterate but Literary: The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-18" by Dr David Omissi, recorded on 2 November 2015 nam.ac.uk, including YouTube video.
See Historical books online, below.
Neuve Chapelle Memorial ww1cemeteries.com

Maps

This series contains Plans Directeurs maps. Information about these types of maps is included in the article "The Great War and Modern Mapping: WWI in the Map Division" May 15, 2015. New York Public Library.
  • French Maps Mostly "Cartes et plans directeurs de la bataille de la Somme, du 18 juin au 17 août 1916". Gallica BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) National Library of France.
  • The National Archives series WO 153 "War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans" is another source of maps, although the maps themselves do not appear to be available online. The catalogue may be searched through Discovery. The maps and plans in this series were collected from various sources, mainly for use by the Official War Historians, and as such were originally held in the Cabinet Office Historical Section. Many were extracted from regimental war diaries. More details, Western Front maps.
  • The Military Map; Elements of Modern Topography (French School of War) by Gerald Maxwell 1916 Archive.org
  • Maps and Artillery Boards. Reprinted 1917 by Army War College, Washington, [USA] from a Pamphlet issued by the British General Staff 1916
  • List of conventional signs and abbreviations in use on French and German maps compiled by Second Section, General Staff (Topography) [USA Army] 1918 Archive.org.
  • Also see next section for some maps, including locations of Prisoners of War camps.

Historical books online

Histories and general

Volume of 14 Maps National Library of Australia, with a description in the catalogue entry.
American Armies and Battlefields in Europe: a History, Guide, and Reference Book prepared by the American Battle Monuments Commission 1938 Archive.org. A revision of the 1927 publication A Guide to the American Battlefields in Europe HathiTrust Digital Library

Medical Services including Veterinary

Secret Service and Spies

Secrets of the White Lady by Captain Henry Landau 1935 HathiTrust Digital Library

Indian Army

Army Service Corps

Artillery

  • With the Guns by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
The Making of a Gunner by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
  • Servants of the Guns by Jeffrey E Jeffery [catalogued Jeffrey E Marston] 1917 Archive.org. Most of the soldiers in the Battery were Welsh. The author became a Prisoner of War.
  • Carry On: Letters In War-Time by Coningsby Dawson, Canadian Field Artillery. 1917 Archive.org. Letters dated July 16, 1916, to February 6, 1917. The author was a Canadian novelist . Also published under the title Khaki Courage: Letters In War-Time
The Glory Of The Trenches: An Interpretation by Coningsby Dawson 1917 Archive.org
Living Bayonets: a Record of the Last Push by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. Letters from April 14, 1917 to October 6, 1918.
Forty Years With Dogs by E H Richardson 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version. "A Biography of E H Richardson" k9history.com, probably based on the autobiography.
Hathi Trust Digital Library catalogue record for 17 Volumes, viewable by those in regions such as North America. All except the last are stated to be Public Domain in the USA.
Gallica: Bibliothèque nationale de France There are 13 digital files for this publication on Gallica, but they are classified by year published, not volume number. (1919 (4), 1920-1923, 2 each year, 1924 (1)), and it is unclear whether these contain the complete series of 17 volumes, or 13 volumes. The last one digitized on Gallica is classified as 1924, and has the title 5th Annee Tome XVII, Volume 17. There is a Search facility (whole collection) or individual book files. For individual book files, click on the icon for Table des matières, for contents. Volume 17, the final volume, contains a Contents section which appears to cover all 17 Volumes, click on the icon for Table des matières. It is then possible to click through to relevant articles, which may be located in other volumes.

Fiction

  • Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon 1930. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. About the book Wikipedia. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".[11]
  • Half-novel, half-autobiography: The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 by Frederic Manning 1929. Also published as Her Privates We. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. Considered “as being true to the actual experience of modern warfare in ways that nothing else had managed to be”.[15] On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".[11]
  • The Silence of Colonel Bramble by André Maurois. Translated from the French by Thurfrida Wake. Verses translated by Wilfrid Jackson. 1920 Archive.org. The author, writing under a non de plume which subsequently became his legal name, was an Interpreter, and subsequently Liaison Officer with the IXth (Scotch) Division, when the book was written.
  • Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant : a Romance of Married Life by Gilbert Frankau Seventh edition 1920. Archive.org. This book "is semi-autobiographical and gives an excellent feel for life as a Kitchener volunteer officer in both the infantry and then the RFA 1914-16… it was also one of the first books to reveal to the general public what Shell Shock was all about. A classic".[16]
  • Sketches by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, who was appointed Temporary Second Lieutenant 2nd September 1914 in the Royal Artillery where he served in France. By February 1917 he was Acting Captain while commanding a section of a Divisional Ammunition Column. In June 1918 he was awarded an OBE [Officer of the Order of the British Empire] at which time he was Captain, Propaganda Branch, Aircraft Production Department, Ministry of Munitions. Appointed Acting Lt-Colonel, whilst specially employed 12 November 1918.[17]
Between the Lines by Boyd Cable 3rd edition 1917, first published October 1915 Archive.org. Librivox Audiobook Between the Lines, read by Delmar H Dolbier. Archive.org.
Action Front by Boyd Cable 1916 Archive.org
Grapes of Wrath by Boyd Cable 1917 Archive.org
Front Lines by Boyd Cable 1918 Archive.org
Air Men o' War by Boyd Cable 1919 Archive.org
  • Novels by Sapper, the nom de plume of Herman Cyril McNeile , a writer of war stories that were hailed as realistic revelations of the truth about war. [18] He was the author of the later Bulldog Drummond series. Archive.org.
Men, Women and Guns 1916. Also available in an audio edition.
Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R. E. 1916
The Lieutenant and Others 1916
No Man's Land 1917
  • A novel: Across The Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. A novel about Indian (Punjabi) soldiers who have crossed the black waters, against all the advice of their forefathers that calamity would befall anyone who went overseas, to join the British and their allies on the Western Front. The author was born in Peshawar in 1905, so was too young for first-hand experience of the war, but the book has a very authentic feel, suggesting that he not only did his research in books but also listened to the stories of older men who came back. He grew up in military cantonments, according to the introduction.[19] Review by Randeep Wadehra, August 6, 2000 The Tribune
  • A novel: The Ravi Lancers by John Masters 1972. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. (Only one person at a time is able to borrow, so you may need to wait for the book to be returned. First you must register) . An Indian cavalry regiment is sent to France at the outbreak of the First World War.
  • A novel: Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy. Archive.org. Published in Britain as Hira Singh's Tale: When India Came to Fight in Flanders. Serialized in Adventure magazine, October 18 - December 3, 1917. Published in book form 1918. A fictional account of a cavalry regiment taken prisoners of war by the Germans.
  • William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton c 1919. Archive.org, missing pages 169-170, but file colour perhaps easier to read, Archive.org, all pages, Librivox audio recording Archive.org, missing pages 169-170. The author worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont and organised Concerts at the Front. The book, written in a tent within sound of guns and shells, won the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1919.[20]
  • Green Envelopes No author appears on the title page. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
  • A romantic novel: The Nurse's Story : In Which Reality Meets Romance by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. The book is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a review of this novel scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the Pittsburgh Press (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.
  • Rilla of Ingleside by L M Montgomert 1921 Archive.org. Librivox audio version, read by one reader, Librivox audio, multiple readers Archive.org. The final book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series for girls, set in Canada. The story of the life of the women at home whose family members fought on the Western Front.
  • Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter by Captain W E Johns 1954. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Contains thirteen short stories, eleven of which were originally published in The Camels Are Coming (1932) and two of which were originally published in Biggles Of The Camel Squadron (1934), originally written for older adolescents. Note however Wikipedia states “The early First World War books were reprinted in the 1950s, when the Biggles books had acquired a younger readership and were bowdlerised.

References

  1. India and the Western Front bbc.co.uk/history
  2. Discovery catalogue
  3. Naval and Military Archive
  4. UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920 consisting of WO 95/1096–3948 records. Ancestry. However, within this series, there appears to be a further selection of diaries available - not all are included.
  5. Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-18 War
  6. Great War Forum thread Indian Re-evaluation by David Filsell 17 July 2014
  7. page 66, ‪British Logistics on the Western Front: 1914-1919‬ by Malcolm Brown. quoting end notes 84, 85 WO 95/74 Director of Supplies, War Diary 29 October 1914, 1 November 1914 page 72
  8. Indian infantry unit war diaries go online The National Archives
  9. Larkin, Roy. The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918 Historic Military Vehicle Forum 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  10. Three Chevrons Naval and Military Press
  11. 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 11.5 11.6 Great War Dust Jackets page listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.
  12. Naval & Military Press
  13. CROONAERT German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals Great War Forum 21 March 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  14. charlie2. Free German Regimental History Books Great War Forum 1 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  15. "An outsider at war" by Richard Johnstone 4 June 2012. Inside Story.
  16. charlesmessenger Casemate Books - a question Great War Forum 12 November 2016. Retrieved 2016.
  17. Details from the London Gazette.
  18. "‘Sapper’ : From Realism to Melodrama", a paper originally delivered at the conference of Les Amis du Roman Populaire in Amiens, in 2014. Great War Fiction. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  19. Liz in Eastbourne. Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand Great War Forum 3 March 2106. Retrieved 4 March 2016
  20. William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton persephonebooks.co.uk.