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*"Learning The Hard Way: The Indian Army In Mesopotamia, 1914-1918" by Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bcmh.org.uk%2Farchive%2Fconferences%2F2012MespotUlrichsen.pdf Docs.google version] [http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/conferences/2012MespotUlrichsen.pdf original pdf] BCMH Summer Conference 2012 – Indian Armies (The British Commission for Military History bcmh.org.uk) (retrieved 8 May 2014)

*''The British Experience in Iraq from 1914-1926: What Wisdom Can The United States Draw From Its Experience?'' by Matthew W. Williams. A thesis presented to the Faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas 2004 [https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:hx0fjkgnB64J:www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD%3DADA429024+soldier+British+Army+Punjab+letters+mother+rain+1919s&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShx7U1MU5QTrrbBG4-BhGnhc9siePHV9KSqpOBDOKOLWpuGVxfoUqKuBSqs9ViAh_tGFucZ7yYo1rr7hl_mWsvymKtm_t9BVIe_PYG0r2HVZejQSNegZyR-kkSs_jQLclzWbHXZ&sig=AHIEtbSSD-pFzPffHdpPOqEGRkEzojpG9g html version], [http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA429024 pdf]

*[http://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/26th-gurkha-rifles-in-mesopotamia-1916/ Capt George Theodore Gill and 2/6th Gurkha Rifles in Mesopotamia 1916] from David Gill’s gillww1. ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131115081404/http://gillww1.wordpress.com/2012/09/07/26th-gurkha-rifles-in-mesopotamia-1916/ archive.org link])

*[http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,645563.0.html A collection of WW1 photographs, most probably taken in Mesopotamia]. Includes a few images of Indian soldiers. rootschat.com Forum thread.

*[http://www.turkishreview.org/tr/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=223337 The history hidden in Haydarpaşa Cemetery] by Vedika Kant 01 August 2013. Holds the graves of some 400 soldiers from what are now the Commonwealth realms who died in Turkey, mostly as POWs, in World War I.

*Articles by Amitav Ghosh: "Shared Sorrows: Indians and Armenians in the prison camps of Ras al-‘Ain, 1916-18". It is based on an account written by an Indian member of the Bengal Ambulance Corps (BAC), who became a prisoner after the fall of Kut. and ended up in the prison camps of Ras al-'Ain, in northern Syria, in 1916. “The reason the story has survived is that one of the Indian prisoners happened to write about about his war experiences forty years later. His name was Sisir Sarbadhikari and his book Abhi Le Baghdad (or On To Baghdad) appeared in 1958” It is in 18 parts, in reverse order, consisting of two pages. Scroll to the bottom of [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23&paged=2 this page] for part 1. Scroll to the bottom of [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23 this page] to continue. ( archive.org links [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509003716/http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23&paged=2 1] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509040810/http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=23 2]) The earlier part of the memoir, from joining up in Calcutta to the fall of Kut is described in [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?cat=12 "On to Baghdad"]. Scroll to the bottom of the page for part 1

*[http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=5004 “Yet another Indian First World War memoir found!”] Article about the ''War Memoirs'' of Captain Limaye, Indian Medical Service, written in Marathi. He was with the 87th Punjabis 1918-1921. He saw action in Mesopotamia and was involved in operations against the Kurdistanis in 1919 and in quelling the Arab Rebellion in 1920. amitavghosh.com. This book may be viewed online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, where the Introduction is in English.

*[http://www.reubique.com/IWT.htm Inland Water Transport and Docks] Reubique.com. The article mentions that this section of the Royal Engineers was founded in 1914 and was later responsible for alternate transportation during World War One in various theatres of war - including Mesopotamia where personnel from India and China were deployed.

====Historical books online====

*[https://archive.org/details/dwellerinmesopot00maxw ''A Dweller in Mesopotamia being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden, with sketches''] by Donald Maxwell 1921 Archive.org

*[http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/structure/188193 ''Report of the Commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the operations of war in Mesopotamia, together with a separate report''] by J. Wedgwood. With appendices, Mesopotamia Commission London 1917 menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de

*[http://archive.org/stream/navyinmesopotami00catouoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Navy in Mesopotamia, 1914 to 1917''] by Conrad Cato 1917 Archive.org

*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n129/mode/2up "Mesopotamia"] commences page 111 ''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org

**''Loyalties Mesopotamia 1914 -1917'' Arnold T Wilson 1930

**''The Tragedy Of Mesopotamia'' by Sir George Buchanan 1938. The author was Director-General of Port Administration and River Conservancy at Basra

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