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*[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://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 politician.
*[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 politician.
====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/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://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/allsfairstoryofb00henr ''All's Fair : the Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines''] by Captain Henry Landau 1934 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Landau_(captain) Henry Landau] Wikipedia.
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Secrets of the White Lady''] by Captain Henry Landau 1935 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527793 ''Mata Hari''] by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: ''Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy'', first published 1930. Archive.org,
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041190870?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Spies I Knew''] by Marthe McKenna 1934 HathiTrust Digital Library. Belgian  Marthe Cnockaert, 'Laura' of the British Intelligence Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/modernspiestellt00rich ''Modern spies tell their stories : personal narratives of many exploits in secret service''] edited by Richard W Rowan 1934 Archive.org.
====Indian Army====
====Indian Army====
*Also see [[Western Front#Histories and general|Histories and general]], above
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include some India Office Records relating to the First World War. A  search using the key word India, and adjustment of the dates will locate the documents,  or see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records/ europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu], or the direct links include
*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include some India Office Records relating to the First World War. A  search using the key word India, and adjustment of the dates will locate the documents,  or see [http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/tag/india-office-records/ europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu], or the direct links include
**IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2384  [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/mil/17/5/2384 Indian Force for Europe]. India Office Military Dept, 6 Sep 1914
**IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2384  [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/mil/17/5/2384 Indian Force for Europe]. India Office Military Dept, 6 Sep 1914
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*[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.
*Also see Fiction below for sketches written  by Boyd Cable,  the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.
*Also see Fiction below for sketches written  by Boyd Cable,  the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.
*'''Despatch Riders'''
====Cavalry====
**[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].
**[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'''
**[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/firstcall00empe ''First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918. A guide for new recruits into the American Army, and their families.
*:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guy_Empey Arthur Guy Empey] Wikipedia
**[https://archive.org/details/coveredwithmudgl00laforich ''Covered with mud and glory; a machine gun company in action ("Ma mitrailleuse")''] by Georges Lafond [of the French Army]. Translated by Edwin Gile Rich 1918 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/threechevrons00bidd ''Three Chevrons''] by "Orex" (Major H F Bidder) 1919. Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.  Called up from the Reserve in 1914, at first  Bidder was with 1 S Staffs and later as Brigade (21st) MG Officer and CO 1st Bn MGC. <ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/three-chevrons.html  ''Three Chevrons''] Naval and Military Press</ref> Elsewhere it is stated the 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent year. 
**[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5732  "The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn MGC: No 1 Arras March 21-28 1918"] page 15, ''3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps Magazine'', Issue no 1, May 1919. ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk. The British Library holds issues 1, and also 2 and 4-5 (at least 6 appear to have been published) - these latter also contain  "Chronicles". These issues are available on the subscription website database ProQuest "Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War", which is available at the British Library and elsewhere - see  [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for access through some libraries.     
**[https://archive.org/details/historymemoirof300unse ''History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G. Companies''] Written and Illustrated by Members of the Battalion 1919 Archive.org. Sometimes  attributed to Graham Seton Hutchison, Divisional Machine Gun Officer of the 33rd Division.
**[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625 ''Footslogger''] by Graham Seton 1933. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Footslogger; An autobiography'', by Graham Seton [pseud.] (Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison ...)
**[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
*'''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://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://archive.org/details/lifeintank00haiguoft ''Life in a Tank''] by Richard Haigh, Captain of the Tank Corps 1918 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/tanktales00foot ''Tank Tales''] by "Tank Major" [Stephen Foot] and Eric Wood 1919 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835168 ''Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918''] by Brevet-Colonel J F C Fuller (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) 1920 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/companyoftanks00watsrich ''A Company of Tanks''] by  Major WHL Watson, 1920 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/tankinaction00browrich ''The Tank in Action''] by Captain D G Browne 1920 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/152/mode/2up "The Call: The Tale of a Tank"] by Major FE Hotblack page 152 ''The Long Road to Victory'' edited by John Buchan 1920.
**[https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/180/mode/2up "The Tanks at Cambrai'"] by Lieutenant J C MacIntosh, Tank Corps page 181 ''The Long Road to Victory'' edited by John Buchan 1920.
*:[https://archive.org/details/mentanks00maciiala ''Men and Tanks'']  by J C MacIntosh. 1921 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
**[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
*'''Infantry and others'''
====Infantry and others====
**[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/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. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets  page] listing  "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by  Great War Dust Jackets  and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>
*[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. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets  page] listing  "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by  Great War Dust Jackets  and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>
**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by  Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11232 Gutenberg.org edition], with cartoons collected at the front of the file. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bairnsfather Bruce Bairnsfather] Wikipedia. He was an officer in the  Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who became very well known for his cartoons.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by  Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11232 Gutenberg.org edition], with cartoons collected at the front of the file. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bairnsfather Bruce Bairnsfather] Wikipedia. He was an officer in the  Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who became very well known for his cartoons.
*:[https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-025 ''Fragments from France''] by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as ''The Bystander's fragments from France''. [https://archive.org/details/morefragmentsfro00bair ''More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII''] c 1918 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-025 ''Fragments from France''] by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as ''The Bystander's fragments from France''. [https://archive.org/details/morefragmentsfro00bair ''More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII''] c 1918 Archive.org.
*:''From Mud to Mufti''  by Bruce Bairnsfather 1919 Archive.org  [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairrich American edition, with  American Preface], [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairuoft London edition].
:''From Mud to Mufti''  by Bruce Bairnsfather 1919 Archive.org  [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairrich American edition, with  American Preface], [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairuoft London edition].
**[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> On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[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> On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
**[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/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish.
**[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]).
*[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]).
**[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.
*[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.
**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1  ''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".
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1  ''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/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.
*[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.
**[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.
**[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. The author was a Lieutenant in the  United States Army, and subsequently became an author and poet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Allen Hervey Allen] Wikipedia.  
*[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. The author was a Lieutenant in the  United States Army, and subsequently became an author and poet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Allen Hervey Allen] Wikipedia.  
**[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081555660?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment'']  by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010945122?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2nd  Hathi Trust file]. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American  novelist and journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Vincent_O%27Brien  Howard Vincent O'Brien]  Wikipedia.  Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081555660?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment'']  by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010945122?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2nd  Hathi Trust file]. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American  novelist and journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Vincent_O%27Brien  Howard Vincent O'Brien]  Wikipedia.  Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.
**[https://archive.org/details/subalternonsomme00mark ''A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916''] by Mark VII [Max Plowman] 1928, first published 1927. Archive.org. 10th West Yorks.  On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternonsomme00mark ''A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916''] by Mark VII [Max Plowman] 1928, first published 1927. Archive.org. 10th West Yorks.  On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
**[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu  ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org. Subaltern in Royal Sussex at the Somme & Passchendaele. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu  ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org. Subaltern in Royal Sussex at the Somme & Passchendaele. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
**[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap  ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933.  Archive.org Lending Library, see next entry.  He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was  gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap  ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933.  Archive.org Lending Library, see next entry.  He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was  gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
**[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/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.  
==== In the Air====
*[https://archive.org/details/inroyalnavalairs00roshiala ''In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/inroyalnavalairs00roshiala ''In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternssharei00deverich ''A Subaltern's Share in the War, Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.''] 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternssharei00deverich ''A Subaltern's Share in the War, Home Letters of the late George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.''] 1917 Archive.org
*'''Prisoners of War'''
====Despatch Riders====
**[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/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org
**[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 2017Retrieved 8 April 2017.</ref>
: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/prisonerofwar00warnuoft ''Prisoner of War''] by  André Warnod. Tranlated by M Jourdain 1916 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
**[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,
====Machine Guns====
**[https://archive.org/details/britishinternedi00pico ''The British interned in Switzerland''] by Lieut.-Colonel  H P Picot 1919 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/threeyearsprison00thorrich ''Three Years a Prisoner in Germany''] by Major J C Thorn, a First Canadian Contingent Officer 1919 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/talesfromadugout00empeiala ''Tales from a Dugout''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/2864905upenn ''The Wooden City; a Journal for British Prisoners of War'']. Issues 1-15.  Published at Göttingen 1915. Archive.org. Includes Lists of POWs at Göttingen.
:[https://archive.org/details/firstcall00empe ''First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin''] by Arthur Guy Empey 1918. A guide for new recruits into the American Army, and their families.  
*:[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".
:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guy_Empey Arthur Guy Empey] Wikipedia
**Also see [[First World War#Historical books online|First World War - Historical books online]] for more online books about Prisoners of War.
*[https://archive.org/details/coveredwithmudgl00laforich ''Covered with mud and glory; a machine gun company in action ("Ma mitrailleuse")''] by Georges Lafond [of the French Army]. Translated by Edwin Gile Rich 1918 Archive.org
*'''Volunteers and others'''
*[https://archive.org/details/threechevrons00bidd ''Three Chevrons''] by "Orex" (Major H F Bidder) 1919. Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.  Called up from the Reserve in 1914, at first  Bidder was with 1 S Staffs and later as Brigade (21st) MG Officer and CO 1st Bn MGC. <ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/three-chevrons.html  ''Three Chevrons''] Naval and Military Press</ref> Elsewhere it is stated the 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent year. 
**[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]].
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5732  "The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn MGC: No 1 Arras March 21-28 1918"] page 15, ''3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps Magazine'', Issue no 1, May 1919. ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk. The British Library holds issues 1, and also 2 and 4-5 (at least 6 appear to have been published) - these latter also contain  "Chronicles". These issues are available on the subscription website database ProQuest "Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War", which is available at the British Library and elsewhere - see  [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for access through some libraries.     
**''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/historymemoirof300unse ''History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G. Companies''] Written and Illustrated by Members of the Battalion 1919 Archive.org. Sometimes  attributed to Graham Seton Hutchison, Divisional Machine Gun Officer of the 33rd Division.
**[https://archive.org/details/roadsideglimpses01swee ''Roadside Glimpses of the Great War''] by Arthur Sweetser 1916 Archive.org. Hw was  an American journalist who was in France from the early days of the war.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625 ''Footslogger''] by Graham Seton 1933. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Footslogger; An autobiography'', by Graham Seton [pseud.] (Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison ...)
**[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].
*[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/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/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/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.
====Tanks====
**[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/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://archive.org/details/lifeintank00haiguoft ''Life in a Tank''] by Richard Haigh, Captain of the Tank Corps 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/tanktales00foot ''Tank Tales''] by "Tank Major" [Stephen Foot] and Eric Wood 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835168 ''Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918''] by Brevet-Colonel J F C Fuller (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/companyoftanks00watsrich ''A Company of Tanks''] by  Major WHL Watson, 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/tankinaction00browrich ''The Tank in Action''] by Captain D G Browne 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/152/mode/2up "The Call: The Tale of a Tank"] by Major FE Hotblack page 152 ''The Long Road to Victory'' edited by John Buchan 1920.  
*[https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/180/mode/2up "The Tanks at Cambrai'"] by Lieutenant J C MacIntosh, Tank Corps page 181 ''The Long Road to Victory'' edited by John Buchan 1920.  
:[https://archive.org/details/mentanks00maciiala ''Men and Tanks''by J C MacIntosh. 1921 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
*[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]
 
====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/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://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015063000031?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Intelligence Service within the Canadian Corps, 1914-1918''] by Major J E Hahn, James Emanuel late General staff, 4th Canadian Division CEF 1930 HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/allsfairstoryofb00henr ''All's Fair : the Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines''] by Captain Henry Landau 1934 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Landau_(captain) Henry Landau] Wikipedia.
:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744646?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Secrets of the White Lady''] by Captain Henry Landau 1935 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527793 ''Mata Hari''] by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: ''Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy'', first published 1930. Archive.org,
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015041190870?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Spies I Knew''] by Marthe McKenna 1934 HathiTrust Digital Library. Belgian  Marthe Cnockaert, 'Laura' of the British Intelligence Service.
*[https://archive.org/details/modernspiestellt00rich ''Modern spies tell their stories : personal narratives of many exploits in secret service''] edited by Richard W Rowan 1934 Archive.org.
====Volunteers and others====
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$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]].
*''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/roadsideglimpses01swee ''Roadside Glimpses of the Great War''] by Arthur Sweetser 1916 Archive.org. Hw was  an American journalist who was in France from the early days of the war.
*[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/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.
====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://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/britishinternedi00pico ''The British interned in Switzerland''] by Lieut.-Colonel  H P Picot 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/threeyearsprison00thorrich ''Three Years a Prisoner in Germany''] by Major J C Thorn, a First Canadian Contingent Officer 1919 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/2864905upenn ''The Wooden City; a Journal for British Prisoners of War'']. Issues 1-15.  Published at Göttingen 1915. Archive.org. Includes Lists of POWs at Göttingen.
:[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.
====Miscellaneous====
*[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 version]. [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.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919].  State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers. Examples: Chat (n) - A Louse;  Chat (v) -  To examine clothing  in order to remove lice; Chatty (adj) - verminous.
*[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.
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010316334 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.
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/010316334 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.
:[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32701275j/date  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. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6582541w/f9.item 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.
:[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb32701275j/date  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. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6582541w/f9.item 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.
*'''German Army'''
====Vocabularies====
**''My War Memories, 1914-1918'' by General Ludendorff 1919.  [https://archive.org/details/mywarmemories19101lude  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/mywarmemories19102lude Volume II] Archive.org. Also published under the title: ''Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918. The Great War from the siege of Liege to the Signing of the armistice as viewed  from the Grand Headquarters  of the German Army'' by Erich Von Ludendorff Quartermaster-General of the German Army.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919].  State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers. Examples: Chat (n) - A Louse;  Chat (v) -  To examine clothing  in order to remove lice; Chatty (adj) - verminous.
*:''The General Staff and its problems : the history of the relations between the high command and the German Imperial Government as revealed by official documents''  by General Ludendorff... translated by F. A. Holt. 1920 [https://archive.org/details/generalstaffitsp00lude Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/generalstaffitsp02ludeuoft Volume II] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/vocabularygerma00britgoog ''Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations''] by Army War College [USA] “Reprint of a British Document” 1917 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/generalheadquart00falk  ''General Headquarters, 1914-1916, and its Critical Decisions''] by  Erich von  Falkenhayn. 1919 Archive.org.    Also published in the USA under the title ''The German General Staff and its Decisions, 1914-1916''.
*[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedest00pariuoft ''Dictionnaire des termes militaires et de l'argot poilu''] [1916] Archive.org
**''Handbook of the German Army in War''. Issued by the General Staff, British Army ”For Official Use Only”. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003075164.0x000002 ''January, 1917''];  [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100009749073.0x000002 ''November, 1918'']. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 ''Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German Army which participated in the war (1914-1918)''] Compiled from records of Intelligence Section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces at General Headquarters, Chaumont France 1919. Published 1920 Archive.org.
====German Army====
**[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3NG25HN72MPUGPHOB7GZHRKQOETGF57Q  Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter. [...<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Ehemals preußische Truppenteile] 44 German Army Regimental online histories, (German language),  from Deutsche Digital Bibliothek, from the collection of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
*''My War Memories, 1914-1918'' by General Ludendorff 1919.  [https://archive.org/details/mywarmemories19101lude  Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/mywarmemories19102lude Volume II] Archive.org. Also published under the title: ''Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918. The Great War from the siege of Liege to the Signing of the armistice as viewed  from the Grand Headquarters  of the German Army'' by Erich Von Ludendorff Quartermaster-General of the German Army.
*:[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=141&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1  Die württembergischen Regimenter im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918] Links to multiple volumes of different  württembergischen Regimenter (German language).  Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. If URL Is not permanent, use [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start/ Suchen].
:''The General Staff and its problems : the history of the relations between the high command and the German Imperial Government as revealed by official documents''  by General Ludendorff... translated by F. A. Holt. 1920 [https://archive.org/details/generalstaffitsp00lude Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/generalstaffitsp02ludeuoft Volume II] Archive.org
*:[http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra Digital Library of Wielkopolska (Network of Polish Digital Libraries}] contains some online German Regimental Histories (German language).<ref>charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/232455-free-german-regimental-history-books/&do=findComment&comment=2520070  Free German Regimental History Books] ''Great War Forum'' 1 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/generalheadquart00falk  ''General Headquarters, 1914-1916, and its Critical Decisions''] by  Erich von  Falkenhayn. 1919 Archive.org.    Also published in the USA under the title ''The German General Staff and its Decisions, 1914-1916''.
*'''Vocabularies'''
*''Handbook of the German Army in War''. Issued by the General Staff, British Army ”For Official Use Only”. [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003075164.0x000002 ''January, 1917''];  [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100009749073.0x000002 ''November, 1918'']. British Library Digital Collection.
**[https://archive.org/details/vocabularygerma00britgoog ''Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations''] by Army War College [USA] “Reprint of a British Document” 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 ''Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German Army which participated in the war (1914-1918)''] Compiled from records of Intelligence Section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces at General Headquarters, Chaumont France 1919. Published 1920 Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedest00pariuoft ''Dictionnaire des termes militaires et de l'argot poilu''] [1916] Archive.org
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3NG25HN72MPUGPHOB7GZHRKQOETGF57Q  Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter. [...<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Ehemals preußische Truppenteile] 44 German Army Regimental online histories, (German language),  from Deutsche Digital Bibliothek, from the collection of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
**[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
:[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=141&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1  Die württembergischen Regimenter im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918] Links to multiple volumes of different  württembergischen Regimenter (German language).  Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. If URL Is not permanent, use [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start/ Suchen].
*'''Post War British Occupation of Germany'''
:[http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra Digital Library of Wielkopolska (Network of Polish Digital Libraries}] contains some online German Regimental Histories (German language).<ref>charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/232455-free-german-regimental-history-books/&do=findComment&comment=2520070  Free German Regimental History Books] ''Great War Forum'' 1 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.</ref>
**[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/LERYSOSSOM3YL4FB4TTXBCPVUHOGJUVV ''Life in the Occupied Area''] by Katharine Tynan 1925 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.  [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th-march-1925/28/life-in-the-occupied-area-by-katharine-tynan-hutch Spectator review, 1925]
====Post War British Occupation of Germany====
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/LERYSOSSOM3YL4FB4TTXBCPVUHOGJUVV ''Life in the Occupied Area''] by Katharine Tynan 1925 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek.  [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/14th-march-1925/28/life-in-the-occupied-area-by-katharine-tynan-hutch Spectator review, 1925]
====Fiction====
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123680 ''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. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_an_Infantry_Officer About the book] Wikipedia. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123680 ''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. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_an_Infantry_Officer About the book] Wikipedia. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>

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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

Histories and general

Volume of 14 Maps National Library of Australia, with a description in the catalogue entry.
American Armies and Battlefields in Europe: a History, Guide, and Reference Book prepared by the American Battle Monuments Commission 1938 Archive.org. A revision of the 1927 publication A Guide to the American Battlefields in Europe HathiTrust Digital Library

Medical Services including Veterinary

Indian Army

Army Service Corps

Artillery

  • With the Guns by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
The Making of a Gunner by F. O. O. [Forward Observation Officer] [Cecil J. C. Street] 1916 Archive.org
  • Servants of the Guns by Jeffrey E Jeffery [catalogued Jeffrey E Marston] 1917 Archive.org. Most of the soldiers in the Battery were Welsh. The author became a Prisoner of War.
  • Carry On: Letters In War-Time by Coningsby Dawson, Canadian Field Artillery. 1917 Archive.org. Letters dated July 16, 1916, to February 6, 1917. The author was a Canadian novelist . Also published under the title Khaki Courage: Letters In War-Time
The Glory Of The Trenches: An Interpretation by Coningsby Dawson 1917 Archive.org
Living Bayonets: a Record of the Last Push by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. Letters from April 14, 1917 to October 6, 1918.

Cavalry

Infantry and others

Fragments from France by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as The Bystander's fragments from France. More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII c 1918 Archive.org.
From Mud to Mufti by Bruce Bairnsfather 1919 Archive.org American edition, with American Preface, London edition.

In the Air

Despatch Riders

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. Page 795, page 76, page 246, page 360, page 45.

Machine Guns

Tales from a Dugout by Arthur Guy Empey 1918 Archive.org.
First Call: Guide Posts to Berlin by Arthur Guy Empey 1918. A guide for new recruits into the American Army, and their families.
Arthur Guy Empey Wikipedia

Tanks

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 Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection 1932 edition.
Men and Tanks by J C MacIntosh. 1921 Archive.org. Part of the series On Active Service.

Secret Service and Spies

Secrets of the White Lady by Captain Henry Landau 1935 HathiTrust Digital Library

Volunteers and others

Prisoners of War

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 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".

Miscellaneous

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.

Vocabularies

German Army

  • My War Memories, 1914-1918 by General Ludendorff 1919. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org. Also published under the title: Ludendorff's Own Story, August 1914-November 1918. The Great War from the siege of Liege to the Signing of the armistice as viewed from the Grand Headquarters of the German Army by Erich Von Ludendorff Quartermaster-General of the German Army.
The General Staff and its problems : the history of the relations between the high command and the German Imperial Government as revealed by official documents by General Ludendorff... translated by F. A. Holt. 1920 Volume I, Volume II Archive.org
Die württembergischen Regimenter im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918 Links to multiple volumes of different württembergischen Regimenter (German language). Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. If URL Is not permanent, use Suchen.
Digital Library of Wielkopolska (Network of Polish Digital Libraries} contains some online German Regimental Histories (German language).[14]

Post War British Occupation of Germany

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. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".[10]
  • 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”.[15] On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".[10]
  • The Silence of Colonel Bramble by André Maurois. Translated from the French by Thurfrida Wake. Verses translated by Wilfrid Jackson. 1920 Archive.org. The author, writing under a non de plume which subsequently became his legal name, was an Interpreter, and subsequently Liaison Officer with the IXth (Scotch) Division, when the book was written.
  • 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".[16]
  • Sketches by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, who was appointed Temporary Second Lieutenant 2nd September 1914 in the Royal Artillery where he served in France. By February 1917 he was Acting Captain while commanding a section of a Divisional Ammunition Column. In June 1918 he was awarded an OBE [Officer of the Order of the British Empire] at which time he was Captain, Propaganda Branch, Aircraft Production Department, Ministry of Munitions. Appointed Acting Lt-Colonel, whilst specially employed 12 November 1918.[17]
Between the Lines by Boyd Cable 3rd edition 1917, first published October 1915 Archive.org. Librivox Audiobook Between the Lines, read by Delmar H Dolbier. Archive.org.
Action Front by Boyd Cable 1916 Archive.org
Grapes of Wrath by Boyd Cable 1917 Archive.org
Front Lines by Boyd Cable 1918 Archive.org
Air Men o' War by Boyd Cable 1919 Archive.org
  • Novels by Sapper, the nom de plume of Herman Cyril McNeile , a writer of war stories that were hailed as realistic revelations of the truth about war. [18] 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.[19] 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.
  • William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton c 1919. Archive.org, missing pages 169-170, but file colour perhaps easier to read, Archive.org, all pages, Librivox audio recording Archive.org, missing pages 169-170. The author worked at the Scottish Women's Hospital at Royaumont and organised Concerts at the Front. The book, written in a tent within sound of guns and shells, won the Prix Femina-Vie Heureuse in 1919.[20]
  • Green Envelopes No author appears on the title page. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
  • 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.
  • Rilla of Ingleside by L M Montgomert 1921 Archive.org. Librivox audio version, read by one reader, Librivox audio, multiple readers Archive.org. The final book in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series for girls, set in Canada. The story of the life of the women at home whose family members fought on the Western Front.
  • Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter by Captain W E Johns 1954. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Contains thirteen short stories, eleven of which were originally published in The Camels Are Coming (1932) and two of which were originally published in Biggles Of The Camel Squadron (1934), originally written for older adolescents. Note however Wikipedia states “The early First World War books were reprinted in the 1950s, when the Biggles books had acquired a younger readership and were bowdlerised.

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. 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 Great War Dust Jackets page listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.
  11. Naval & Military Press
  12. Three Chevrons Naval and Military Press
  13. CROONAERT German Map of the main French prison camps, labor commandos and hospitals Great War Forum 21 March 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  14. charlie2. Free German Regimental History Books Great War Forum 1 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
  15. "An outsider at war" by Richard Johnstone 4 June 2012. Inside Story.
  16. charlesmessenger Casemate Books - a question Great War Forum 12 November 2016. Retrieved 2016.
  17. Details from the London Gazette.
  18. "‘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.
  19. Liz in Eastbourne. Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand Great War Forum 3 March 2106. Retrieved 4 March 2016
  20. William – an Englishman by Cicely Hamilton persephonebooks.co.uk.