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*[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, where pages are rotatable. [https://archive.org/details/StrategicCamouflage1920/page/n7 Archive.org version].
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5801 ''The Pill-boxes of Flanders''] by Col. E. G. L. Thurlow 1933. "The Great War Archive", a part of ''The First World War Poetry Digital Archive'', University of Oxford. The pages of this short book have been listed out of order. To read in book order, selected the following document pages 26, 11, 15 (Title page); 27, 23 Contents; 13, 2, 18, 4, 14, 24, 16, 3, 17, 25, 7, 19, 8, 21, 28, 1, 12, 5, 22, 9, 6, 10, 20.
*[https://archive.org/details/forsakeofexample00anth/page/n5 ''For the Sake of Example : Capital Courts-Martial, 1914-1920''] by Anthony Babington 1983 Archive.org Lending Library. Executions in the British Army.
*[https://digitallib.stou.ac.th/handle/6625047444/2661 ''The Sad Adventures of Big and Little Willie, during the First Six Months of the Great War, August 1914--January 1915''] by W K Haselden (William Kerridge) 1915 . Satirical caricature cartoons of the German Kaiser Wilhelm and his son, The Crown Prince. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours".
*[https://archive.org/details/firstsevendivis00hami/page/n7 ''The First Seven Divisions : being a detailed account of the fighting from Mons to Ypres''] by Ernest W Hamilton (Late Captain [[11th (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars|11th Hussars]]) 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/picnicbasket00spea ''The Picnic Basket''] by Major-General Sir Edward Spears. 1968. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes a chapter on a cavalry engagement at Nery 1st September 1914, pages 134-161, which involved the 11th Hussars, in which he had been an officer since 1910. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Spears Edward Spears] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/squadroon00beam/page/n8 ''The Squadroon''] by Ardern Beaman 1920 Archive.org. "Beaman, a regular officer of the 1st Cavalry, Indian Army, who won the DSO on the North- West Frontier in 1915, joined the [[4th (Queen's Own) Hussars]] as a combatant officer early in October 1917. He was present with the regiment at Cambrai & the regimental history records in detail his command of a ‘composite squadron’ in March 1918 & later “C” Squadron at Amiens &c. For reasons unknown he chose to present this Western Front ‘memoir’ from the point of view of the regimental chaplain".<ref name=TDJ>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190611114923/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf June 2019 catalogue] turnerdonovan.com.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/withcavalryinwes00aqui ''With the Cavalry in the West''] by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/infield19141915i00duporich ''In the field (1914-1915); The impressions of an officer of light cavalry''] by Marcel Dupont, translated by H W Hill Archive.org 1916. Book No. 3 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''. [https://archive.org/details/inthefield_fnh_librivox Libribox audio version] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/encampagne19141900dupouoft French edition] Archive.org. [https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Dupont_(historien) Marcel Dupont (historien)] (Wikipedia, French language). Pseudonym of Marcel Ernest Béchu, 7e Chasseurs à Cheval (7th Cavalry Chasseurs).
*[https://archive.org/details/bigfight00fall ''The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme'')] by Capt. David Fallon 1918 Archive.org. He served with the AIF (Australian Imperial Force) at Gallipoli , and subsequently became an officer with the [[43rd Regiment of Foot |Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]. He also flew as a military observer ([https://archive.org/stream/bigfight00fall#page/130/mode/2up "Chapter XI", page 131]), and briefly commanded a tank ([https://archive.org/stream/bigfight00fall#page/144/mode/2up "Chapter XII", page 144]).
*''Keeling letters & recollections''. [Frederic Hillersdon Keeling [Ben]] Edited by E.T. [Townshend, Mrs. (Emily)] 1918. The war years start [https://archive.org/details/keelinglettersre00keeluoft/page/182 page 183]. Archive.org. A committed socialist, it appears he became a private, and later Sergeant-Major, in the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (although the text initially says Duke of York’s). [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/collected-writings-of-john-maynard-keynes/frederic-hillersdon-keeling/6534E545B637EE1D68312EAEDD94B9E6 Summary of a chapter] titled "Frederic Hillersdon Keeling" from ''The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes''. cambridge.org [http://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/archive/frederic-hillersdon-keeling/ Biographical details] winchestercollegeatwar.com
*[https://archive.org/details/ifwereturnletter00manwrich/page/n5 ''If We Return; : Letters of a Soldier of Kitchener's Army''] by G B Manwaring (pseudonym of Geoffrey Manwaring Brown)<ref name=TDJ/> 1918 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/overtherebackint01smit/page/n7 ''Over there and back in three uniforms, being the experiences of an American boy in the Canadian, British and American armies at the front and through No man's land''] by Joseph Shuter Smith 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofdeadoffic00westrich ''The Diary of a Dead Officer, being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West''] c 1918. Archive.org. Includes Part V "Poems". [https://archive.org/details/diary_dead_officer_rg_librivox Librivox audio version]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Graeme_West Arthur Graeme West] Wikipedia. He joined as a private; in August 1916 he became a second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
