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*Books by two out of 25 volunteer members of the RAC [Royal Automobile Club] Contingent, who volunteered with their own car, who were sent officially by the War Office to drive officers of the General Headquarters Staff at the front. As a result, they were in constant contact with very senior officers, and personally observed the course of events over a wide field. It seems they officially joined the Army, and were given officer status.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Adventures on the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, then aged 47, volunteered as a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the Front, as part of the RAC Contingent. For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]].
**[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoypresw00cole frommonstoypresw0000cole/page/n5/mode/2up ''From Mons to Ypres with General French; : a Personal Narrativepersonal narrative''] by Frederic Coleman. 1916 Archive.org. Originally published under Published in London. Contains illustrations but missing at least first page of the Preface. USA title [https://archive.org/details/frommonstoypresw00cole ''From Mons to Ypres with General French : a personal narrativePersonal Narrative''] by Frederic Coleman. 1916 Archive.org. Edition without illustrations. He was a part of the RAC Contingent, who volunteered with his own car.
*:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208781 ''With Cavalry In 1915. The British Trooper in the Trench line : Through the second battle of Ypres''] by Frederic Coleman 1916. Archive.org. Also published with the title beginning ''With Cavalry in the Great War...''. He was attached, with his car, to the Head-quarters Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division. These two titles were later reprinted by Leonaur as ''A Twilight of Centaurs''
*:Frederic Coleman, an American resident in London, is elsewhere <ref>[https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/15398/lot/61/ Frederick Abernethy Coleman] bonhams.com</ref> described as the journalist and Motoring [figure], Frederick Abernethy Coleman, who popularized the White Steam car in England and was a prominent figure in English motoring. He appears to have spent time in China, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, possibly as a journalist. He was also the author of
