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Mesopotamia Campaign

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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120819163534/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Water_Mesopotamia/Water_Mesopotamia_01.htm "Watering the Regiment"] from ''The War Illustrated'', 6th July, 1918. "Here, in Mesopotamia, water is life".
**[http://web.archive.org/web/20120721002443/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Mesopotamia/Eden_01.htm "The Fight for the Garden of Eden"] from the book ''Many Fronts''
**[http://web.archive.org/web/20120203001248/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Mesopotamia/Wounded_01.htm "Wounded in Mesopotamia"] from an official report by [[List of doctors and surgeons#Bombay|Major R Markham Carter]]. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20230922183339/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/battles/p_meso_commission.htm Further information] The First World War, The National Archives [httphttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/+/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm online exhibition], archived.
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/podcasts/voices-of-the-first-world-war/podcast-18-mesopotamia Mesopotamia] Imperial War Museums. Podcast 18 in the series ''Voices of the First World War''. Extracts from soldiers accounts, with a transcript of the podcast.
*Transcribed [https://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/the-memoirs/beresford/ Diary of Stanley Cyril Beresford Mundey] Captain Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry ([[43rd Regiment of Foot|43rd]]). He went from India to Mesopotamia to rejoin his regiment in May 1915, flew with the RFC as an observing officer from 7th September 1915 (page The Union Jack Was Hoisted) and took part in the Siege of Kut, although there is no account of this period. The account for 1916 covers his time as a POW until December 1916. Trinity College Dublin tcd.ie
=====Regimental histories and accounts=====
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force‎|The Guides, (Cavalry and Infantry)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Regiment of Bengal Infantry|7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Infantry]]; [[26th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|26th Punjabis]]; [[41st Regiment of Dogra Infantry‎|41st Dogras]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[33rd Regiment of Madras Native Infantry|93rd Burma Infantry]]; [[104th Wellesley’s Rifles]]; [[105th Mahratta Light Infantry]]; [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[5th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]; [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal]], [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras]], [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]] for years to 1922;: For other Indian Army regimental histories on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website), see [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|20th (Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis]]; [[24th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|24th Punjabis]]; [[26th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|26th Punjabis]]; [[45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry|45th Rattray’s Sikhs]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[5th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers]];
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/356/mode/2up "Desert and Marsh in Arabistan"] by G E H page 356 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-December 1915. Archive.org. Pursuit of the Turkish Army by British and Indian troops.
*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n131/mode/1up/ "The Motor Cycle in Mesopotamia. Carrying Despatches Through Deep Mud and Blinding Dust"] page 70 ''The Motor Cycle'', Volume 17, July 27th 1916 with [https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n428/mode/1up/ photographs] page 287. Archive.org.
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