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**[https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00buchrich ''The History of the South African Forces in France''] by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/historyofsouthaf00buchrich ''The History of the South African Forces in France''] by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org
*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders''  by Arthur Conan Doyle [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl  ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl  ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft  ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign00doyluoft  ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920. Archive.org.
*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders''  by Arthur Conan Doyle [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl  ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl  ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft  ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign00doyluoft  ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920. Archive.org.
*''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services'', and other books regarding Medical Services. See [[First World War#Historical books online 2|First World War-Historical books online]].
*'''Medical Services'''
*[https://archive.org/details/WW1ArmyMedDeptHistV8 ''The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War Volume 8: Field Operations''] Prepared under the direction of Maj Gen  M W Ireland, Surgeon General 1925.  Archive.org. Mainly about the Western Front. Other volumes in this series [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28medicine%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Medical+Department+of+the+United+States+Army+in+the+World+War%29&sort=-date Archive.org]
**''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services'', and other books regarding Medical Services. See [[First World War#Historical books online 2|First World War-Historical books online]].
*[https://archive.org/details/withroyalarmyme00vivigoog ''With the Royal Army Medical Corps (R. A. M. C.) at the Front''] by E Charles Vivian 1914 Archive.org. Includes chapters on Composition and Duties, Training etc.  
**[https://archive.org/details/WW1ArmyMedDeptHistV8 ''The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War Volume 8: Field Operations''] Prepared under the direction of Maj Gen  M W Ireland, Surgeon General 1925.  Archive.org. Mainly about the Western Front. Other volumes in this series [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28medicine%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Medical+Department+of+the+United+States+Army+in+the+World+War%29&sort=-date Archive.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/surgeoninkhaki01mart ''A Surgeon in Khaki''] by Arthur Anderson Martin 1915 Archive.org. Includes the  process of the author’s commission, description of a Field Ambulance structure.
**[https://archive.org/details/withroyalarmyme00vivigoog ''With the Royal Army Medical Corps (R. A. M. C.) at the Front''] by E Charles Vivian 1914 Archive.org. Includes chapters on Composition and Duties, Training etc.  
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower''(1934)] by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org]  Full title/some editions:  ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title  ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed  as Rat Officer to the Second Army.  The author was  a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917  who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
**[https://archive.org/details/surgeoninkhaki01mart ''A Surgeon in Khaki''] by Arthur Anderson Martin 1915 Archive.org. Includes the  process of the author’s commission, description of a Field Ambulance structure.
*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC.1917. Archive.org.  The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany  c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
**[https://archive.org/details/withfieldambulan00boyduoft ''With a Field Ambulance at Ypres : being letters written March 7-August 15, 1915''] by William Boyd 1916. Archive.org. The author was a doctor.
*[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/fieldambulancesk00londuoft ''Field Ambulance Sketches''] by A Corporal. 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
*[https://archive.org/details/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org
**[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower''(1934)] by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org]  Full title/some editions:  ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title  ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed  as Rat Officer to the Second Army.  The author was  a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917  who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Hospitals%2C+charities%2C+etc%22&sort=-date  World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc] Many are about the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC.1917. Archive.org.  The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany  c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000004064699?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '' "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse''] [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Boylston was an American nurse  who left for France  with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at  General Hospital No. 22,  British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. [https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984-part-ii/ Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service] authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the ''Sue Barton, Nurse''  series of books for girls.
**[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org
**Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader as [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Hospitals%2C+charities%2C+etc%22&sort=-date  World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc] Many are about the Western Front.
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000004064699?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 '' "Sister"; the War Diary of a Nurse''] [during 1918] by Helen Dore Boylston 1927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Boylston was an American nurse  who left for France  with the Harvard Surgical Unit, where she worked at  General Hospital No. 22,  British Expeditionary Force at Étaples. [https://authorsreallives.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/helen-dore-boylston-1895-1984-part-ii/ Helen Dore Boylston (1895-1984)- Part II: War Service] authorsreallives. She subsequently became a well known author of the ''Sue Barton, Nurse''  series of books for girls.
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, during WW1 Leese was an Army Veterinary Surgeon on the Western Front working with horses, with a prior short period in East Africa, and later also purchased camels for the Army in Somaliland. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist polititian.
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, during WW1 Leese was an Army Veterinary Surgeon on the Western Front working with horses, with a prior short period in East Africa, and later also purchased camels for the Army in Somaliland. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist polititian.
*Secret Service and Spies
*'''Secret Service and Spies'''
**[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts''] by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
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**[https://archive.org/stream/yearofchivalry00cand#page/102/mode/2up "The Drabi"] [Mule Driver] page 103.
**[https://archive.org/stream/yearofchivalry00cand#page/102/mode/2up "The Drabi"] [Mule Driver] page 103.
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
*[https://archive.org/stream/heroesheroicdeed00mackiala#page/98/mode/2up "Indians' Daring Feats"], page 99 ''Heroes and Heroic Deeds of the Great War'' by Donald A Mackenzie 1916. Archive.org. A book for younger readers.
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half 
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. The author  was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division.  Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum''  8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>'']
*'''Army Service Corps'''
*Artillery
**[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoloosbe00stewuoft ''From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer''] by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/lofclinesofcommu00agatrich ''L. of C. (Lines of Communication): being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps''] by Captain James E Agate 1917 Archive.org.
**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half 
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. The author  was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division.  Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum''  8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>'']
*'''Artillery'''
**[https://archive.org/details/withguns00foof ''With the Guns''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/withguns00foof ''With the Guns''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/makingofgunner00streiala ''The Making of a Gunner''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
*:[https://archive.org/details/makingofgunner00streiala ''The Making of a Gunner''] by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
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**[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot  Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force). Also includes service in Egypt.
**[https://archive.org/details/leavesfromoffice00craw ''Leaves from an Officer's Notebook''] by Eliot  Crawshay-Williams 1918 Archive.org. The author was in a Battery of the Royal Horse Artillery (Territorial Force). Also includes service in Egypt.
**[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
**[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
*Despatch Riders
*'''Despatch Riders'''
**[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org
*:Captain WHL Watson was also the author of ''Tales of a Gaspipe Officer'' by Despatch Rider. ‘Military cyclists are popularly known as Gaspipe Cavalry’ ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Nos 198, 199 and 201, December 1915-March 1916, and January 1917  Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/794/mode/2up/ Page 795], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/76/mode/2up page 76], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/246/mode/2up page 246], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/360/mode/2up page 360], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/44/mode/2up/ page 45].
*:Captain WHL Watson was also the author of ''Tales of a Gaspipe Officer'' by Despatch Rider. ‘Military cyclists are popularly known as Gaspipe Cavalry’ ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Nos 198, 199 and 201, December 1915-March 1916, and January 1917  Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/794/mode/2up/ Page 795], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/76/mode/2up page 76], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/246/mode/2up page 246], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/360/mode/2up page 360], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/44/mode/2up/ page 45].
**[https://archive.org/details/daredevilofarmye00aust ''The Daredevil of the Army : Experiences as a "Buzzer" and Despatch Rider''] by Captain A P Corcoran 1918 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/daredevilofarmye00aust ''The Daredevil of the Army : Experiences as a "Buzzer" and Despatch Rider''] by Captain A P Corcoran 1918 Archive.org
*Machine Guns
*'''Machine Guns'''
**[https://archive.org/details/overtopbyamerica00empe ''"Over the Top" by an American soldier who went. Arthur Guy Empey, Machine Gunner, serving in France. Together with  Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches''] 1918 Archive.org. The author, an American, joined the British Army (Royal Fusiliers). After a period he  served in the Brigade Machine Gun  Company (page 158), then  became a a special MP detailed on intelligence work in the front line (page 193). Also available as an audio book from [https://archive.org/details/overthetop_0812_librivox Librivox], Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/overtopbyamerica00empe ''"Over the Top" by an American soldier who went. Arthur Guy Empey, Machine Gunner, serving in France. Together with  Tommy’s Dictionary of the Trenches''] 1918 Archive.org. The author, an American, joined the British Army (Royal Fusiliers). After a period he  served in the Brigade Machine Gun  Company (page 158), then  became a a special MP detailed on intelligence work in the front line (page 193). Also available as an audio book from [https://archive.org/details/overthetop_0812_librivox Librivox], Archive.org.
*:[https://archive.org/details/talesfromadugout00empeiala ''Tales from a Dugout''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918 Archive.org.
*:[https://archive.org/details/talesfromadugout00empeiala ''Tales from a Dugout''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918 Archive.org.
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**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003297938.0x000002 ''A Brief Narrative of the Guards Machine Gun Battalion during the year 1918''] by Lieut.-Colonel R. Bingham. With an appendix entitled "Machine-Gun Tactics and Organisation." 1931.  Typescript manuscript. British Library Digital Collection.  
**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003297938.0x000002 ''A Brief Narrative of the Guards Machine Gun Battalion during the year 1918''] by Lieut.-Colonel R. Bingham. With an appendix entitled "Machine-Gun Tactics and Organisation." 1931.  Typescript manuscript. British Library Digital Collection.  
**[https://archive.org/details/canadianemmagees00grafuoft ''The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps''] by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/canadianemmagees00grafuoft ''The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps''] by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 Archive.org
*Tanks  
*'''Tanks'''
**[https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin_0 ''The "Tanks" : (by request, and with permission)'']  by Colonel E.D. Swinton, Royal Engineers. 1918. Reprinted from ''The World’s Work'' (a monthly magazine, published in New York). [https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin Same title, reprinted from the ''Strand Magazine''] 1925 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin_0 ''The "Tanks" : (by request, and with permission)'']  by Colonel E.D. Swinton, Royal Engineers. 1918. Reprinted from ''The World’s Work'' (a monthly magazine, published in New York). [https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin Same title, reprinted from the ''Strand Magazine''] 1925 Archive.org.
*:[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007039616;view=1up;seq=11 ''Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, Including the Genesis of the Tank''] by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1933 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210464 Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection] 1932 edition.  
*:[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015007039616;view=1up;seq=11 ''Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, Including the Genesis of the Tank''] by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1933 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available on [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210464 Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection] 1932 edition.  
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**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035242844?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The Fighting Tanks since 1916''] by Ralph Ernest Jones, Robert Joseph Icks and George Howard Rarey 1933.  Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284287 pdf download, Digital Library of India].  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284287 Archive.org]
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035242844?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The Fighting Tanks since 1916''] by Ralph Ernest Jones, Robert Joseph Icks and George Howard Rarey 1933.  Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284287 pdf download, Digital Library of India].  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284287 Archive.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/withcavalryinwes00aqui ''With the Cavalry in the West''] by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withcavalryinwes00aqui ''With the Cavalry in the West''] by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
*[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. He was one of a group of 25 volunteers, organised by the Royal Automobile Club (R A C). For a  book about later military related service  by this author, see [[Norperforce]].
*[https://archive.org/details/onrightofbritish01nobb ''On the Right of the British Line''] by Captain Gilbert Nobbs (late L.R. B.) [London Rifle Brigade] 1917 Archive.org. Some editions are titled ''Englishman, Kamerad! Right of the British Line''. The author was blinded in battle, and became a POW. [https://qormuseum.org/soldiers-of-the-queens-own/nobbs-henry-gilbert/ Biographical details] qormuseum.org
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org.  Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia.  
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org.  Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia.  
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by  Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by  Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam  ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org.  Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam  ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org.  Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish.
*[https://archive.org/details/combedout00voiguoft ''Combed Out''] by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/combedout00voiguoft ''Combed Out''] by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[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. He was one of a group of 25 volunteers, organised by the  Royal Automobile Club (R A C). For a  book about later military related service  by this author, see [[Norperforce]].
*[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame : a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen 1934, first published 1926 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame : a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen 1934, first published 1926 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu  ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu  ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq  ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. First you must register.  Only one person at a time is able to read the book, as in a 'real' library, so you may need to go on a waiting list.
 
*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many  influential contacts with officers in  the Army's highest ranks.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq  ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. First you must register.  Only one person at a time is able to read the book, as in a 'real' library, so you may need to go on a waiting list.  
*[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War''] by  Will Irwin. 1918. The author was an American journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Irwin The author's Wikipedia page].
*[https://archive.org/details/warpicturesbehin00malc ''War Pictures Behind the Lines''] by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work.  
*Prisoners of War
*Prisoners of War
**[https://archive.org/details/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich ''Map of the main prison camps in Germany and Austria, with Gazeteer''] by Mrs Pope Hennessy. Catalogued 1920. Printed in London.  Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich#page/n5/mode/1up Map]
**[https://archive.org/details/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich ''Map of the main prison camps in Germany and Austria, with Gazeteer''] by Mrs Pope Hennessy. Catalogued 1920. Printed in London.  Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/ofmainprisoncmap00poperich#page/n5/mode/1up Map]
**[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JUTM5NV4GRHSMEKA6RUKYA6RZZ67WQJH German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] 1917.  Karte der wichtigsten französischen Gefangenenlager, Arbeitskommandos u. Lazarette. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Some additional camps are also mentioned.<ref>CROONAERT [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/248554-german-map-of-the-main-french-prison-camps-labor-commandos-and-hospitals/&do=findComment&comment=2506307 German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] ''Great War Forum'' 21 March 2017.  Retrieved  8 April 2017.</ref>
**[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/JUTM5NV4GRHSMEKA6RUKYA6RZZ67WQJH German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] 1917.  Karte der wichtigsten französischen Gefangenenlager, Arbeitskommandos u. Lazarette. Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Some additional camps are also mentioned.<ref>CROONAERT [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/248554-german-map-of-the-main-french-prison-camps-labor-commandos-and-hospitals/&do=findComment&comment=2506307 German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals] ''Great War Forum'' 21 March 2017.  Retrieved  8 April 2017.</ref>
**[https://archive.org/details/prisonerofwar00warnuoft ''Prisoner of War''] by  André Warnod. Tranlated by M Jourdain 1916 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/captured00doug ''Captured: Sixteen Months as a Prisoner of War''] by Lieut. J Harvey Douglas, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. 1918 Archive.org. Later in his captivity the author was transferred to Switzerland,
**[https://archive.org/details/captured00doug ''Captured: Sixteen Months as a Prisoner of War''] by Lieut. J Harvey Douglas, 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles. 1918 Archive.org. Later in his captivity the author was transferred to Switzerland,
**[https://archive.org/details/britishinternedi00pico ''The British interned in Switzerland''] by Lieut.-Colonel  H P Picot 1919 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/britishinternedi00pico ''The British interned in Switzerland''] by Lieut.-Colonel  H P Picot 1919 Archive.org.
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*:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022553586.0x000002?bt=europeanaapi#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-916.7904%2C0%2C4102.5809%2C2958 Issue No 16 February 15, 1916] British Library Digital file. The British Library has additional digital files for Issues 17-27 (September 1916). To access, through the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Main Catalogue], use the search term BLL01016586686 Then click on "I want this', select the required edition, and click Go. Alternatively, rather than using the Main Catalogue, the digital file for Issue 16, on the right hand side of the page, has an item "View the catalogue record".
*:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022553586.0x000002?bt=europeanaapi#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-916.7904%2C0%2C4102.5809%2C2958 Issue No 16 February 15, 1916] British Library Digital file. The British Library has additional digital files for Issues 17-27 (September 1916). To access, through the [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?menuitem=0&fromTop=true&fromPreferences=false&fromEshelf=false&vid=BLVU1 Main Catalogue], use the search term BLL01016586686 Then click on "I want this', select the required edition, and click Go. Alternatively, rather than using the Main Catalogue, the digital file for Issue 16, on the right hand side of the page, has an item "View the catalogue record".
**Also see [[First World War#Historical books online|First World War - Historical books online]] for more online books about Prisoners of War.
**Also see [[First World War#Historical books online|First World War - Historical books online]] for more online books about Prisoners of War.
*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many  influential contacts with officers in  the Army's highest ranks.
*[https://archive.org/details/reporteratarmage00irwirich ''A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War''] by  Will Irwin. 1918. The author was an American journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Irwin The author's Wikipedia page].
*[https://archive.org/details/warpicturesbehin00malc ''War Pictures Behind the Lines''] by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work.
*[https://archive.org/details/irishnunsatypres00coluuoft  ''The Irish Nuns at Ypres : an Episode of the War''] by D M C [Dame M Columban], (Member of the Community) [Benedictines] 1915 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/irishnunsatypres00coluuoft  ''The Irish Nuns at Ypres : an Episode of the War''] by D M C [Dame M Columban], (Member of the Community) [Benedictines] 1915 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/scavengerinfranc00bellrich ''A Scavenger in France : being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917-19''] by William Bell 1920 Archive.org. The author was a member of the F W V R C, Friends’ War-Victims’ Relief Committee, a  Quaker organization.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishwardogsth00richrich ''British War Dogs, their Training and Psychology''] by Lt.-Colonel E H Richardson, late Commandant of the British War Dog School. C 1920. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/britishwardogsth00richrich ''British War Dogs, their Training and Psychology''] by Lt.-Colonel E H Richardson, late Commandant of the British War Dog School. C 1920. Archive.org.
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/221023  ''Forty Years With Dogs''] by  E H Richardson 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221023 Archive.org]. [http://www.k9history.com/WWI-biography-ehrichardson.htm "A Biography of E H Richardson"] k9history.com, probably based on the autobiography.
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/221023  ''Forty Years With Dogs''] by  E H Richardson 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.221023 Archive.org version]. [http://www.k9history.com/WWI-biography-ehrichardson.htm "A Biography of E H Richardson"] k9history.com, probably based on the autobiography.
*[https://archive.org/details/enemywithinhit00john ''The enemy within, hitherto unpublished details of the great conspiracy to corrupt and destroy France''] by Severance Johnson. Translation by Edgard Leon. 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/enemywithinhit00john ''The enemy within, hitherto unpublished details of the great conspiracy to corrupt and destroy France''] by Severance Johnson. Translation by Edgard Leon. 1920 Archive.org.
*''Les Archives de la Grande Guerre [et de l'histoire contemporaine]''. French language.
*''Les Archives de la Grande Guerre [et de l'histoire contemporaine]''. French language.

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As the First World War progressed more troops were needed for the Western Front. To meet this demand Expeditionary Force A from India was sent to reinforce the British Troops – particularly in France.[1]

Many men who fell during these campaigns are honoured by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Amongst these are 4,742 soldiers from India whose names are recorded on the Neuve Chapelle Memorial in France. In 1964 these names were expanded to also commemorate 210 servicemen of India whose graves at Zehrensdorf Indian Cemetery in East Germany could not be maintained.

Related articles

War Diaries

Included in the many records held at the National Archives Kew is the series WO 95 - War Office: First World War and Army of Occupation War Diaries.

Some War Diaries, many of which are handwritten, have been digitised and are available (on a pay basis) online from various sources: from the National Archives through the Discovery catalogue[2], from Naval and Military Archive[3], part of Naval & Military Press, which also publishes print and DVD-ROM versions, and through Ancestry which contains the database "UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920" (selected war diaries only)[4] (and another database for Gallipoli). The Ancestry database also contains War Diaries for some Indian, Australian, New Zealand, and other regiments. Some transcribed war diaries edited by Martin Gillott. publisher Great War Diaries, for British Army regiments, are available in Kindle editions which have a Search facility (anyone with Kindle Unlimited can read them for free). (Download of a free Kindle App is available, you don't need Kindle).

Also see External links below.

There is also a record series, consisting of of printed volumes at the British Library called "Indian Army First World War - War Diaries" IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2421-4246 : 1914-1921, which includes Western Front War Diaries. The relevant records appear to be IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2421-2499.

The Australian War Memorial website[5] contains Australian and New Zealand Army War diaries (available for free).

Recommended reading

Recommended by Peter Moore on the Military reading list
"Sepoy in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15 by Gordon Corrigan, Kent, UK; first edition. 1999; 16 plates; 9 maps; hardcover; 274 pp. An excellent, updated account of the sufferings and heroism of the Indian regiments sent to France in the bitterest of winters clad only in tropical uniforms until transferred to the Mesopotamian Campaign in 1915. The author, a retired Major (late Royal Gurkha Rifles and ex-10GR), 1998), has an authentic feel for the old Indian Army and the times".

“Well worth tracking a copy, both as a fascinating book and a display of how good military history should be written.“[6]

For an interview with the author Gordon Corrigan, see below.

Indian treacle (opium)

On the Western Front, Sikh troops were supplied with Indian treacle, an euphemism for opium, which was part of their ration.[7]

External links

Video and transcript: "Illiterate but Literary: The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-18" by Dr David Omissi, recorded on 2 November 2015 nam.ac.uk, including YouTube video.
See Historical books online, below.
Neuve Chapelle Memorial ww1cemeteries.com

Maps

This series contains Plans Directeurs maps. Information about these types of maps is included in the article "The Great War and Modern Mapping: WWI in the Map Division" May 15, 2015. New York Public Library.
  • French Maps Mostly "Cartes et plans directeurs de la bataille de la Somme, du 18 juin au 17 août 1916". Gallica BnF (Bibliothèque nationale de France) National Library of France.
  • The National Archives series WO 153 "War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans" is another source of maps, although the maps themselves do not appear to be available online. The catalogue may be searched through Discovery. The maps and plans in this series were collected from various sources, mainly for use by the Official War Historians, and as such were originally held in the Cabinet Office Historical Section. Many were extracted from regimental war diaries. More details, Western Front maps.
  • The Military Map; Elements of Modern Topography (French School of War) by Gerald Maxwell 1916 Archive.org
  • Maps and Artillery Boards. Reprinted 1917 by Army War College, Washington, [USA] from a Pamphlet issued by the British General Staff 1916
  • List of conventional signs and abbreviations in use on French and German maps compiled by Second Section, General Staff (Topography) [USA Army] 1918 Archive.org.
  • Also see next section for some maps, including locations of Prisoners of War camps.

Historical books online

Volume of 14 Maps National Library of Australia, with a description in the catalogue entry.
Forty Years With Dogs by E H Richardson 1935. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org version. "A Biography of E H Richardson" k9history.com, probably based on the autobiography.
Hathi Trust Digital Library catalogue record for 17 Volumes, viewable by those in regions such as North America. All except the last are stated to be Public Domain in the USA.
Gallica: Bibliothèque nationale de France There are 13 digital files for this publication on Gallica, but they are classified by year published, not volume number. (1919 (4), 1920-1923, 2 each year, 1924 (1)), and it is unclear whether these contain the complete series of 17 volumes, or 13 volumes. The last one digitized on Gallica is classified as 1924, and has the title 5th Annee Tome XVII, Volume 17. There is a Search facility (whole collection) or individual book files. For individual book files, click on the icon for Table des matières, for contents. Volume 17, the final volume, contains a Contents section which appears to cover all 17 Volumes, click on the icon for Table des matières. It is then possible to click through to relevant articles, which may be located in other volumes.

Fiction

  • Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon 1930. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. About the book Wikipedia
  • Half-novel, half-autobiography: The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 by Frederic Manning 1929. Also published as Her Privates We. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. Considered “as being true to the actual experience of modern warfare in ways that nothing else had managed to be”. [13]
  • Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant : a Romance of Married Life by Gilbert Frankau Seventh edition 1920. Archive.org. This book "is semi-autobiographical and gives an excellent feel for life as a Kitchener volunteer officer in both the infantry and then the RFA 1914-16… it was also one of the first books to reveal to the general public what Shell Shock was all about. A classic".[14]
  • Novels by Sapper, the non de plume of Herman Cyril McNeile , a writer of war stories that were hailed as realistic revelations of the truth about war. [15] He was the author of the later Bulldog Drummond series. Archive.org.
Men, Women and Guns 1916. Also available in an audio edition.
Sergeant Michael Cassidy, R. E. 1916
The Lieutenant and Others 1916
No Man's Land 1917
  • A novel: Across The Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. A novel about Indian (Punjabi) soldiers who have crossed the black waters, against all the advice of their forefathers that calamity would befall anyone who went overseas, to join the British and their allies on the Western Front. The author was born in Peshawar in 1905, so was too young for first-hand experience of the war, but the book has a very authentic feel, suggesting that he not only did his research in books but also listened to the stories of older men who came back. He grew up in military cantonments, according to the introduction.[16] Review by Randeep Wadehra, August 6, 2000 The Tribune
  • A novel: The Ravi Lancers by John Masters 1972. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. (Only one person at a time is able to borrow, so you may need to wait for the book to be returned. First you must register) . An Indian cavalry regiment is sent to France at the outbreak of the First World War.
  • A novel: Hira Singh: When India Came to Fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy. Archive.org. Published in Britain as Hira Singh's Tale: When India Came to Fight in Flanders. Serialized in Adventure magazine, October 18 - December 3, 1917. Published in book form 1918. A fictional account of a cavalry regiment taken prisoners of war by the Germans.
  • A romantic novel: The Nurse's Story : In Which Reality Meets Romance by Adele Bleneau 1915 Archive.org. The hero of this romantic novel is a Captain in the Ludhiana Sikhs (page 97). There are suggestions that when it was published the book was considered to be fictionalized memoirs, perhaps not written under the author’s actual name. A film based on the book was made in 1919. The book is from the collection of the US National Library of Medicine, so perhaps is considered to have a realistic nursing background. For a review of this novel scroll if necessary to page 7, 5th column of the Pittsburgh Press (newspaper) dated August 7, 1917.

References

  1. India and the Western Front bbc.co.uk/history
  2. Discovery catalogue
  3. Naval and Military Archive
  4. UK, WWI War Diaries (France, Belgium and Germany), 1914-1920 consisting of WO 95/1096–3948 records. Ancestry. However, within this series, there appears to be a further selection of diaries available - not all are included.
  5. Australian Imperial Force unit war diaries, 1914-18 War
  6. Great War Forum thread Indian Re-evaluation by David Filsell 17 July 2014
  7. page 66, ‪British Logistics on the Western Front: 1914-1919‬ by Malcolm Brown. quoting end notes 84, 85 WO 95/74 Director of Supplies, War Diary 29 October 1914, 1 November 1914 page 72
  8. Indian infantry unit war diaries go online The National Archives
  9. Larkin, Roy. The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918 Historic Military Vehicle Forum 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.
  10. Naval & Military Press
  11. CROONAERT German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals Great War Forum 21 March 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  12. charlie2. Free German Regimental History Books Great War Forum 1 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  13. "An outsider at war" by Richard Johnstone 4 June 2012. Inside Story.
  14. charlesmessenger Casemate Books - a question Great War Forum 12 November 2016. Retrieved 2016.
  15. "‘Sapper’ : From Realism to Melodrama", a paper originally delivered at the conference of Les Amis du Roman Populaire in Amiens, in 2014. Great War Fiction. Retrieved 29 July 2016.
  16. Liz in Eastbourne. Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand Great War Forum 3 March 2106. Retrieved 4 March 2016