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*[https://archive.org/details/scoutingthrills00mckerich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Scouting Thrills''] by Captain G B McKean, VC, MC, MM 14th Battalion Canadian Infantry 1919 Archive.org. The Battalion scouts were generally part of the Intelligence section, along with observers and snipers. Pages 8-9 state the book is primarily written for boys. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burdon_McKean George Burdon McKean] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor ''A Handful of Ausseys''] by C. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungenpurl/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 bsz40749670X ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. 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/glimpsesgreatwar/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25528 ''Q. 6. A and Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917, and 1918''] by Francis Buckley 1920. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/q6aandotherplaces00buckuoft Archive.org version]. Reprinted in 2015 with the title [https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofg0000buck/mode/2up ''Recollections of the Great War : three years on campaign in France and Flanders with the Northumberland Fusiliers''] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was a subaltern, from Jan. 1916 onwards, and later company commander, 1st/7th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
*[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrich/page/n7 ''A Galloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures''] by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish 1920. Archive.org. Butler was ADC to the General of the 7th Division.
