Western Front

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.

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.

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• First World War
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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.

In addition to Battalion war diaries, there may be higher level Brigade and Division war diaries, which may provide information about Battalions not be found in the relevant Battalion diaries, or Battalion diaries may not have survived. The vast majority of war diaries for RFA units [Royal Artillery] were kept at the brigade level.

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, from Naval and Military Archive, 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, and at times, part war diaries only)(search hints) (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 (where the handwriting has been deciphered for you!) edited by Martin Gillott, series title (and publisher) Great War Diaries, for British Army and Indian Army regiments, are available through Amazon.co.uk 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 onto a PC, Mac or tablet - you don't need Kindle). The transcribed Indian Army Great War Diaries currently (2017/12) available are 15th Ludhiana Sikhs War Diary 1914-15: Indian Army on the Western Front; 57th (Wilde's) Rifles (Frontier Force) War Diary 1914-15: The Indian Army on the Western Front; 59th (Scinde) Rifles (FF) War Diary 1914-15: Indian Army on the Western Front.

Also see External links below.

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

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. Includes War Diary [Collection], Army Headquarters India, Indian Expeditionary Force 'A' [France]. GSI, 1914-19. 26 vols IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3086-3149. This record series also includes records which do not specifically include the words "War Diaries" in the title, which may relate to the Western Front such as IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2421-2499. Note: this record series is not available online.

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.“

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

Time zones

During the First World War, France was in the same time zone as Great Britain, (Greenwich Mean Time). Germany was one hour ahead (GMT+1). Germany first introduced Daylight Saving time Sunday, 30 April 1916, 23:00:00 when clocks were forwarded one hour. France followed on Wednesday, 14 June 1916, 23:00:00 pm when clocks were forwarded 1 hour. (Details.)

Indian treacle (opium)

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

External links

• The Great War in a Different Light, now an archived website. “Accounts and Galleries from Great War Period Books, Magazines and Publications with more than 8000 Authentic Photos, Illustrations and Newsarticles”. Mainly relates to the Western Front.
• First World War regimental diaries of the Indian Infantry units deployed to the Western Front are available online to download via The National Archives's First World War 100 portal. At September 2014, 171 were available. They are not personal diaries. See TNA’s British Army war diaries 1914-1922 for more details about this type of record. Searching is free, but there may be a charge to download documents. Also see War Diaries above.
• India and the Western Front Article by Dr David Omissi on BBC History website.
• What were the experiences of the Indian Infantry on the Western Front between August 1914 and December 1915? by Riyaz Husein Dhalla 2006, A dissertation, probably/possibly University of Nottingham. academia.edu
• Khudadad Khan and Ghulam Haider of the 129th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Baluchis cwgc.org, now an archived webpage. For his remarkable courage, at the village of Hollebeke, near Ypres in Belgium. Khudadad Khan was the first Indian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
• Lieutenant Frank de Pass nam.ac.uk. Lieutenant Frank de Pass of the 34th Prince Albert Victor’s Own Poona Horse was the first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross (VC) and also the first Indian Army officer to win the award in the First World War. It was awarded for conspicuous bravery near Festubert, in the Artois region of France on the western front, on the 24th November 1914.
  • Lieutenant de Pass in uniform 1914 nam.ac.uk
  • Memorial honours first Jewish WW1 hero Ministry of Defence.
• "The last post: letters home to India during the first world war" by Daljit Nagra 21 February 2014. The Guardian. "Letters from Indian Soldiers, 26 September 1915" 26 September 2015. British Library Untold lives blog. Letters from the West Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France. generalist.org.uk.

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.

• Podcast: India in the First World War William Spencer and others. 12 March 2015. The National Archives. The battle of Neuve Chapelle.
• The Indian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle with Photographs. undereveryleaf.wordpress.com

Neuve Chapelle Memorial ww1cemeteries.com

• Indian Forces Memorial, Ypres greatwar.co.uk
• Valour and Sacrifice. The First Indian Soldiers in Europe 1914-1916 Website of High Commission of India in London.
• "The men who cut the war short" by Sidin Vadukut June 28 2014 Livemint. An interview with Gordon Corrigan, author of Sepoy in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15
• Record Of Work [in France] Of Queen Alexandra’s Military Nursing Service For India Scarletfinders
• Royal Pavilion in Brighton, Sussex UK Used as a hospital for troops from the Indian corps who had been wounded during WW1 in France and Flanders and now contains the Indian Military Hospital gallery.
  • In Pictures: Brighton Pavilion's Indian military hospital BBC.
    
  • Doctor Brighton's Pavilion is an 'Online Exhibit' from sikhmuseum.com with much information.
  • Brighton, England : Remains of a faraway battle by Sidin Vadukut May 11 2013. www.livemint.com. The Chattri Memorial to Indian soldiers who fought in World War I
• Brockenhurst a First World War Hospital village 1914. [England]. newforestheritage.org. The Lady Hardinge Hospital for Wounded Indian Soldiers, used from the outbreak of war until the end of 1915. when the Indian Army Corps which it supported, was transferred to Egypt. In 1916 it became No 1 New Zealand General Hospital. Also see Nurse.
• A series of photographs depicting the Indian Army in the First World War, by H.D. Girdwood held by the British Library. flickr.com. Each photograph has a link to the British Library online photograph, where a zoom facility is available. The photographs were mainly taken on the Western Front, but some taken at the Indian hospitals at Brighton are also included. The set also includes British Army soldiers.
• "North East India and the First World War" by Pratap Chhetri February 4, 2016. The Indian Labour Corps: Lushai Labour Corps, Khasi Labour Corps, Garo Labour Corps, Naga Labour Corps, Manipur Labour Corps and enlistments from Tripura. "The Centre for Hidden Histories" [WW1]
• "The Infantry cannot do with a gun less": The Place of the Artillery 
in the British Expeditionary Force, 1914-1918 by Sanders Marble gutenberg-e.org. Colombia University Press. Based on the author's Ph D thesis, University of London, 1998.
• The Dynamics of Doctrine: The Changes in German Tactical Doctrine During The First World War by Timothy T. Lupfer 76 Pages Published: 1981. A publication in the series Leavenworth Papers. Link to a pdf download (scroll down) [US] Army University Press. Also available Archive.org version.
• The German General Staff in World War I by Larry D Bruns 1983. A Masters Thesis presented to the Faculty of the US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Archive.org, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Collection.
• Sanitation, Sand & Shells: The War Diary of Alfred M. Cockburn 2nd London Sanitary Company, Royal Army Medical Corps who served in Egypt and France. Produced for an exhibition at the Museum of Military Medicine. Diary extracts and images. gatewaysfww.org.uk
• General Haig's Dental Surgeon from Paris : Sir Auguste Charles Valadier, a Pioneer in Maxillo-Facial Surgery: A Historical Update by William P Cruse 7 April 1986 US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA. Archive.org, Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Collection. Valadier was an officer in the RAMC.
• "The Other British War on the Western Front in the Great War: The Hygiene War." by Dr David Payne c 2006. Archived page from westernfrontassociation.com
• "The medical response to trench nephritis in World War One" by R. L. Atenstaedt Kidney International Volume 70, Issue 4, 2 August 2006, Pages 635-640
• "Women's War-Work" edwardianpromenade.com. Stated on the website to be from the 1922 edition of the Encyclopedia Britanica. Includes details of volunteer organisations, including hospitals and other facilities run by these organisations, including on the Western Front.
• YouTube video: Soldiers: Part 3. Gunner. Includes WW1 footage, including commentary at 3.00 by Patrick James Campbell, 150th Brigade R.F.A, who wrote The Ebb & Flow of Battle c 1977 and In the Cannon's Mouth, 1979, the latter also published in an 1979 edition which included the former. The video is from an 1985 eight part series, most of which are also available on YouTube.
• Kategorie:Infanterie-Regiment im Ersten Weltkrieg GenWiki. German language. Google Translate English version Category: Infantry Regiment in the First World War or enter individual web page links in Google Translate.

Sketches

• The Western Front. Drawings by Muirhead Bone 1917 gutenberg.org. Archive.org version
• Australia at War : Drawings at the Front by Lieut. Will Dyson, Official Artist A. I. F. Title page is Australia at War: A Winter Record made by Will Dyson on the Somme and at Ypres during the Campaigns of 1918 and 1917. Published 1918. Contents gallica.bnf.fr
• [World War I sketches] drawn by Leslie Hore Mainly Western Front, (a few from Gallipoli, see more sketches). State Library of NSW, catalogue reference PXE 703. Biographical details L. F. S. Hore MC (1870–1935)anzacportal.dva.gov.au. Originally with the AIF. he went to France as Brigade Machine Gun Officer of the 6th Infantry Brigade.
• Boulogne. A Base in France : being 32 drawings from the sketchbook of Capt. Martin Hardie. Catalogued [1918]. List of Illustrations. Archive.org. Also available on Gallica. gallica.bnf.fr. Note the two digital files differ in colour.

Maps

• "How to read a Trench Map" by Howard Anderson, October 2008 Western Front Association, now an archived webpage.
• Western Front Maps from McMaster University, Canada. Text Search using Place Name or Trench Name.
• National Library of Scotland WW1 Trench Maps. View maps overlaid on a modern map. Allows you to swap between trench map and modern map. On the left hand side you will see a slider to change the transparency between the trench map and the underlying modern map.
• Great War British Trench Map Coordinates Converter muninn-project.org. Allows you to enter specific map references.
• Trench maps of the Western Front from the collection of the Australian Army History Unit. Mainly British maps, with the focus on battlefields where the Australian Imperial Force fought, but includes a few German maps.
• Carte du théâtre des opérations: (front occidental) avec répertoire alphabétique (Map of the theater of operations [Western Front] with alphabetical directory) is a set of 15 detailed military maps produced in 1915 by the Geographical Service of the French Army. World Digital Library, a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, from National Library of Brazil.

• Maps of the French Artillery Survey Group, 1917 - ca. 1919. USA Army versions, based on French military maps. Contains 9 online French Trench Maps. Click on “Search within this series”, then click on “Archival Descriptions with digital objects” (Left hand side of webpage). Website of The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

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.

Initial Burial Plats for World War I American Soldiers, 1920 – 1920 Digitised maps detailing the location of American soldier battlefield grave sites. Series RG92: WWI Grave Plats. Click on “Search within this series”. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

• 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.
• Le Front : Atlas dépliant de 32 cartes en six couleurs 11th edition 1915, with maps from August 1914 to December 1914.

Volume II 10th edition with maps to 1918. Gallica BnF

• Digital map Collection: Illinois National Guard World War I Intelligence Maps Illinois Digital Archives. Consists of maps used during World War I and brought back to Illinois by the 33rd Infantry Division of the Illinois National Guard. Index to Collection. Includes French maps, trench works, location of German troops etc
• A free digitised collection of WWI German Army General Staff Maps showing the location of French, British and Belgian forces on the Western Front from Feb 1916 to Nov 1918, may be requested from the website Digital History Archive, category WWI Document & Photo Collections, scroll to bottom of the page. Maps are from a Russian archive.
• The National Archives [Kew] Research guide: Military maps of the First World War. The National Archives maps are not available online.

Includes the National Archives series WO 153 "War Office: War of 1914-1918: Maps and Plans". 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.

• "Maps of The First World War: An Illustrated Essay and List of Select Maps in The Library of Congress" by Ryan J. Moore 2014 The Occasional Papers. Series No.7. A Philip Lee Phillips Map Society Publication. loc.gov
• 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.

Conventional map signs, British and French [Military] Also some German. Printed by U.S. Geological Survey, 1918. Harvard University Digital Library.

• Download Accurate POI [Point Of Interest] Satnav files for free! Useful when visiting CWGC cemeteries. poigraves.uk
• Also see next section "Historical books online" for some maps, including sections "Histories and General", "Prisoners of War" and "German Army"

Historical books online

Also see First World War - Historical books online, including general histories such as The Times History of the War with illustrations, and periodical publications with illustrations such as The Illustrated War News.

Histories and general

• History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
  • The Official Histories of the Great War longlongtrail.co.uk. Details the various volumes.
  • Volume I August-October 1914: 1922 edition, Revised text 1937 edition
  • Volume II October-November 1914 1925 Archive.org
  • From the Digital Library of India, available as pdf downloads. Note mirror versions of these files are available on Archive.org, with the ability to read online, or download. One volume from HathiTrust.
    • 1915 Volume I, Archive.org; 1915 Volume II, Archive.org
    • 1916 Volume I , Archive.org; 1916 Appendices, Volume I , Archive.org; 1916 Volume II , Archive.org; 1916, Appendices, Volume II , Archive.org.
    • 1917 Volume I, Archive.org The German Retreat to the Hindenberg Line and the Battle of Arras; 1917 Appendices, Volume I, Archive.org.

    1917 Volume II 7th June-10th November Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele) published 1948. HathiTrust Digital Library. Note, perhaps may not be viewable in USA.

    • 1918: The German March Offensive and its Preliminaries (1935) Archive.org; 1918 Volume II, Archive.org; Volume III, Archive.org
  • The Ancestry owned pay website fold3 contains many online books in the above series, perhaps the entire series, consisting of online versions of reprints from Naval & Military Press, under the title Military Operations France & Belgium, a total of 9421 digital pages from multiple books. (Located in World War II/ Military Books/France, letter M)
• Despatch, dated 23rd December, 1916, from General Sir Douglas Haig, G.C.B., relating to the operations on the western front including the Battle of the Somme London : Printed under the authority of H.M.S.O. 1917. Harvard University Digital Library.

Despatch from Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig ... covering the period from 8th December, 1917, to 30th April, 1918 London : Printed under the authority of H.M.S.O. 1918. Harvard University Digital Library.

• The Despatches of Lord French : Mons, the Marne, the Aisne, Flanders, Neuve Chapelle, the second battle of Ypres, Loos, Hohenzollern Redoubt, and a complete list of the officers and men mentioned 1917 Archive.org.
• Books by two out of 25 volunteer members of the RAC [Royal Automobile Club] Contingent, who volunteered with their own car, who were sent officially by the War Office to drive officers of the General Headquarters Staff at the front. As a result, they were in constant contact with very senior officers, and personally observed the course of events over a wide field. It seems they officially joined the Army, and were given officer status.
  • 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, as part of the RAC Contingent. For a book about later military related service by this author, see Norperforce.
  • From Mons to Ypres with General French; a Personal Narrative by Frederic Coleman. 1916 Archive.org. Originally published under the title From Mons to Ypres with French  : a personal narrative. He was a part of the RAC Contingent, who volunteered with his own car.

  With Cavalry In 1915. The British Trooper in the Trench line : Through the second battle of Ypres by Frederic Coleman 1916. Archive.org. Also published with the title beginning With Cavalry in the Great War.... He was attached, with his car, to the Head-quarters Staff of the 1st Cavalry Division. These two titles were later reprinted by Leonaur as A Twilight of Centaurs

  Frederic Coleman, an American resident in London, is elsewhere described as the journalist and Motoring [figure], Frederick Abernethy Coleman, who popularized the White Steam car in England and was a prominent figure in English motoring. He appears to have spent time in China, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, possibly as a journalist. He was also the author of

  Our boys over there; to the young American in khaki - what he will find when he gets to France by Frederic Coleman 1918 Archive.org

• The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. About the book Wikipedia. Article "The Guns of August showed me how history could bring the past to life" by Margaret MacMillan The Guardian 4 August 2014.
• Reputations, Ten Years After by Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart 1928.Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". An examination of 10 leading personalities of WWI, including Joffre, Foch, Petain, Lundendorff, Pershing, and others.

Real War 1914-1918 by B H Liddell Hart 1930 Archive.org. An enlarged edition was published as: A History of the World War, 1914-1918, 1934. Reprinted as

History of the First World War by B. H. Liddell Hart 1972 Archive.org Lending Library. B. H. Liddell Hart Wikipedia.

• A History of the Great War 1914-1918 by CRMF Cruttwell 1934 2nd Edition, with additions and corrections, 1940/(1936) Index Archive.org.

The Role Of British Strategy In The Great War by CRMF Cruttwell 1936 Archive.org

• Collected stories
  • Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water by Logan Marshall 1915 Archive.org
  • Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring edited by Elwyn A Barron 1920 Archive.org

  A similar series of books is Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War, etc. Published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents (naval-military-press.com) advises 56 VCs are covered. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000891226 .

• The Indian Corps in France by Lt-Colonel J.W.B. Merewether and Sir Frederick Smith, 1918 which appears to be a simple reprint of the first edition December 1917. Archive.org. A 1919 revised second edition from archive.org is catalogued as The Indian Corps in Rance and may require a DjVu plug in, or individual pages can be accessed which use the Tiff format. The 1919 second edition is also available as three different pdf downloads on the Digital Library of India: Pdf 1, Archive.org mirror version; Pdf 2, Archive.org; Pdf 3, Archive.org
• With the Indians in France by Sir James Willcocks 1920 Archive.org Index, page 383
  • List of 'Promotions and Rewards' page 347-382
• A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919 by A G Lind DSO 1933. Wikimedia Commons. Direct pdf link Archive.org pdf. May be slow to open. Includes France 1914-1915.
• For Indian Army regimental histories, see 1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse); 2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse); Hodson's Horse; 38th Central India Horse; 9th Bhopal Infantry; Garhwal Rifles; 59th Scinde Rifles; 67th Punjabis; 127th Baluchis; the histories being on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website).

Other regimental histories, see 2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles); 8th Gurkha Rifles- the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles had many deaths on the Western Front; 2nd Bombay Pioneers;

• Report giving the history of the Chinese Labour Corps used behind the lines in France 1917-19 British Library Mss Eur F288/110. Part of the family papers of Sir Leslie Fry, Mss Eur F288, (so possibly written by a family member?) British Library Digital.
• History of the Great War based on Official Documents Transportation on the Western Front, 1914-1918 compiled by Colonel AM Henniker, R E (ret) 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library. Pdf to download from the Digital Library of India, Archive.org mirror version

Volume of 14 Maps National Library of Australia, with a description in the catalogue entry.

• Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. The 12 Volumes include France. Australian War Memorial website.
• The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash [1920] Archive.org. John Monash Wikipedia. In May 1918 he became commander of the Australian Corps.
• From the Australian Front. 1917. Reproductions of official photographs, and cartoons and sketches by members of the A. I. F [Australian Imperial Force] Gutenberg.org version, Archive.org version
• US Army Centre of Military History online books Order of Battle of the United States Land Forces in the World War (5 Volumes) and United States Army In The World War (17 Volumes). Links to Pdf downloads.

World War I Collection Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library.

The Army behind the Army by Major Alexander Powell USA 1919 Archive.org

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

• American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) website. Includes "Search ABMC Burials and Memorials".

The U.S. Air Service In World War I in four volumes, edited by Maurer Maurer, The Office of Air Force History. 1978 Archive.org.

• Official History of The Canadian Forces in the Great War, 1914-1919 Scroll to various volumes. Canadian Forces website.

The Canadian Forestry Corps; its inception, development and achievements by C.W. Bird and J.B. Davies HMSO London 1919 Archive.org. Includes a chapter "Operations in France", which includes a brief mention, page 42, of the use of Indian labour. The final chapter from page 50 "An Imperial Link" is missing.

• French Official Histories: Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre sga.defense.gouv.fr. French language. Eleven Tomes, some with multiple volumes, mostly about the Western Front. With online maps (Cartes) and at times panoramic sketches (Croquis panoramiques).

Gallica – The BnF Digital Library contains many publications, mostly French language. Use specific search terms, or the Advanced Search for Sujet search terms such as Guerre mondiale ( 1914 -1918) -- Histoire des unités or Guerre mondiale ( 1914 -1918) -- Campagnes et batailles.

• German Official, or semi Official Histories: Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: die militärischen Operationen zu Lande 16 Volumes. Schlachten des Weltkrieges 22 Volumes. German language. Maps (Karten) are often at the back of individual volumes, and there may be photographs, all of which can be located by clicking on the Thumbnail gallery, and then selecting specific pages. The Digital State Library of Upper Austria.

Also available from the Universty of Hamburg Library as pdf downloads: Der Weltkrieg and Schlachten des Weltkrieges, or if these URLs are not permanent, use Recherche [Digitalisierte Bestände].

• The German Air Force in the Great War by Major Georg Paul Neumann, late of the German Air Force, translated by J E Gurdon 1920 Archive.org. From the original Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege 1920 Archive.org.

Deutschlands Krieg in der Luft : ein Rückblick auf die Entwicklung und die Leistungen unserer Heeres-Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege by Ernst Wilhelm Arnold von Hoeppner 1921. Archive.org. German language. Also available National Library of Estonia - English webpage option available.

• Some Regimental and Divisional Histories, and some Manuals from the British Library Digital Collection may be accessed by Searching the British Library Main Catalogue, using search term such as Army Great Britain or War Office Great Britain, or specific search terms. Then use side filters, Online, Books. Note: Selecting the filter for date does not appear to be accurate, so it is best to re-order the Search results according to date, and then select those applicable to WW1.

Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader "World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories Great Britain". Also use the Search.

Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader "World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns" Includes some regimental histories.

The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 by its Commander Brigadier General Count Gleichen (now Major-General Lord Edward Gleichen) 1917 Archive.org

A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918 [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol III (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th Battalions). Volume III transcribed edition lib.militaryarchive.co.uk.

An internet Search using the term lib.militaryarchive.co.uk may find other histories from this source.

• The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Archive.org mirror version Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force.
• Army Service Corps of the British Army, and, the organization of the transport and transportation at the front in France : lectures delivered before the officers of the Quartermaster Corps and Quartermaster Reserve Corps at Washington, D.C., May 1917 by Lieut. Col. F K Puckle, A S C, British Army. Archive.org.
• A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org mirror version. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I).
• The Signal Service in the European War of 1914-1918 (France) by R E Priestley (Late Major, R E) 1921 Archive.org. Includes information about the use of carrier pigeons (Index entry)
  • Page 11 includes a very brief reference to the Indian Telegraph units of the Indian Army. These were very likely to have been men from the Post and Telegraphs Department in India, who were appointed to the Army at the outbreak of war. Also see the following book.
• The Post Office of India in the Great War edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. Officers and men of the Post and Telegraphs Department in India who became the military postal service of the Indian Army. Includes chapters on the Western Front.
  • "From an Indian Post Office in France" page 538 Blackwood’s Magazine, no 197 January- June 1915. Archive.org.
• The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series History of the Great War based on official documents. Volume I, Volume II, Volume III, Volume IV, Volume V, Volume VI Archive.org.
  • Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. : a History of the Squadron from its Formation by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott 1920 Archive.org. Originally Royal Flying Corps.
  • Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I by George K Williams 1999. Archive.org.
• "Inland waterways and docks, royal engineers in war time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)" by Captain A E Battle, RE Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes mention of Train Ferries from 1917. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
• Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes chapters on France.
• A Record of the Battles and Engagements of the British Armies in France and Flanders 1914-1918 by Captain E A James 48th (South Midland) Divisional Signals T A 1924. army.gov.au
• The Western Front: A General Outline by Major Alan B. Steele, Australian Staff Corps 1930. Written following a lecture in 1930 and “designed to assist officers in the detailed study of this campaign". Australian Army website.
• Books by John Buchan Archive.org.
  • For volumes of Nelson's History of the War by John Buchan, 24 volumes published 1915-1919, and the revised, condensed A History of the Great War in 4 volumes, published 1923, see First World War - Historical books online.
  • The Battle of the Somme by John Buchan [1917] Archive.org. An overview.
    • The Battle of the Somme, First Phase by John Buchan [1917] Archive.org. A more detailed account.
    • The Battle of the Somme, Second Phase [1917] A more detailed account.
  • The Long Road to Victory edited by John Buchan 1920. Each chapter is a personal account. Contents
  • The History of the South African Forces in France by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org
• Books by Philip Gibbs, mainly Archive.org. Philip Gibbs Wikipedia. Along with four other men he was officially accredited as a war correspondent, his work appearing in the Daily Telegraph and Daily Chronicle.
  • The Soul of the War 1916, first published 1915
  • The Battles of the Somme 1917. With maps at the back of the book.
  • The Germans on the Somme 1917
  • From Bapaume to Passchendaele: on the Western Front, 1917 1918 . Reprinted as The Struggle in Flanders: on the Western Front, 1917 with a new introduction.
  • The Way to Victory, published 1919. Volume 1: The Menace HathiTrust Digital Library. Volume 2 The Repulse 1919. USA editions. Published in the UK in 1919 in one volume (552 p) Open Warfare : the Way to Victory europeana.eu with link to a pdf from Future Library (Greece); note however digital pages contain a watermark.
  • Realities of War by Philip Gibbs 1920. Also published under the title Now It Can Be Told 1920. Now It Can Be Told Librivox audio version. This book was written after the war, and not subject to the censorship restrictions applying during the war. All Archive.org.
  • More That Must Be Told by Philip Gibbs 1921 Archive.org
  • Adventures in Journalism by Philip Gibbs. 1923. Autobiographical. Page 193 onward covers the years from 1912. Link to pdf download, Digital Repository of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune India. Locate in your downloads folder.
• The British Campaign in France and Flanders by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mainly Archive.org. 1914 Volume I 2nd Edition 1916; 1915 Volume II 2nd Edition 1917; 1916 Volume III 1918; 1917 Volume IV 1919; January to July 1918 Volume V 1919; July to November 1918 Volume VI 1920, Volume VI Project Gutenberg Australia transcribed version where maps may be clearer.
• The victory of the Marne : the enemy's onslaught, order to stand firm, the battle, immediate results, historic consequences by Louis Madelin ; translated from the original French by Lilly M. Grove 1917. Part of the series Studies and documents on the war. Harvard University Digital Library. [1914]
• The Last Days of Fort Vaux, March 9-June 7, 1916 by Henry Bordeaux, translated by Paul V Cohn [c 1917] Archive.org.
• The Old Front Line by John Masefield 1917 Archive.org. The old front line as it was when the Battle of the Somme began.
• The First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook 1972 Archive.org Lending Library. Includes interviews with many survivors, both British and German.
• The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 by Alistair Horne 1964 "This specially abridged edition first published in Penguin Books 1964." (Originally published 1962). Archive.org Lending Library. Horne also wrote Death of a generation: from Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and the Somme 1970 which encapsulates some of the earlier book.
• The Story of the Fourth Army in the Battles of the Hundred Days, August 8th to November 11th, 1918 by Major-General Sir Archibald Montgomery, General Staff, Fourth Army 1919 Archive.org.

Maps issued in a separate case [Volume 2]: 19 maps and 5 photographs National Library of Australia

• Notes from Calais Base, and pictures of its many activities by C E Montague 1918 Archive.org
• Quick training for war  : a few practical suggestions illustrated by diagrams by Lieut.General Sir Robert Baden-Powell. 1914 Archive.org. A digitised microfilm.
• Training for the Trenches: a Practical Handbook. Based upon personal experience during the first two years of the war in France by Captain Leslie Vickers, late Lieut. Seaforth Highlanders 1917 Archive.org

Specimens of British trench orders. This book discusses the duties of the Canadian Corps trench officers, based on examples from the British Army. Includes trench orders, battalion trench standing orders, brigade standing orders for the trenches, and the 55th (West Lancashire) Division trench orders. Archive.org.

• Hand Grenades: a Handbook on Rifle and Hand Grenades by Major Graham M Ainslie 1917 Archive.org
• Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers by Major H Hesketh-Prichard [1920]. Archive.org. First Army School of S.O.S.
• Strategic Camouflage by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file.
• Mr. Punch's History of the Great War Published by arrangement with the Proprietors of Punch. 1919 Archive.org
• For Army Manuals, see Military periodicals online - Army Regulations, Equipment, Manuals etc

Medical Services including Veterinary

• History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services, and other books regarding Medical Services. See First World War-Historical books online.
• 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 Archive.org
• Report on the medico-military aspects of the European War from observations taken behind the allied armies in France by Surgeon A M Fauntleroy US Navy. 1915 Archive.org.
• The Anatomy of Courage by Lord Moran, Medical Officer to the 1st Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers, (later Physician to Winston Churchill). 1967 American edition, first published 1945. Archive.org Lending Library. A later addition has the title The Anatomy of Courage: The Classic WWI Account of the Psychological Effects of War.
• Notes for Army Medical Officers by Lt-Col. T H Goodwin RAMC 1917. Archive.org. Includes the medical organisation and sanitation matters. Based on lectures given in USA.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Field Ambulance Sketches by A Corporal. 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series On Active Service.
• Mine Rescue Work on the Western Front by Lieut.-Colonel D Dale Logan, RAMC. 40/Medical/1955. 1920. HMSO London. State Library of Victoria.
• Memoirs Of A Camp Follower(1934) by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org mirror version 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 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. Review of the book. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
• 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.
• Wade in, Sanitary! The Story of a Division Surgeon in France by Richard Derby Lt.-Col. USA, Division Surgeon, Second Division. 1919. Archive.org
• From a Surgeon's Journal : 1915-1918 by Harvey Cushing 1936 Archive.org. The author, a neurosurgeon, was a volunteer with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance, and later was with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), and with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).
• 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.
• 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 World War, 1914-1918 -- Hospitals, charities, etc and "1914-1918--Hospitals", with some overlap. Many are about the Western Front. For accounts by nurses, see the Great War Forum topic "Online books-accounts by nurses etc", with some overlap.
• "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. 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.
• The Forbidden Zone by Mary Borden 1929. A transcription. American Field Service website. A later (2008) edition was published under the title The Forbidden Zone : a Nurse's Impressions of the First World War. The Chicago-born millionaire's daughter funded and managed her own hospital unit for the French Army, L’Hôpital Chirurgical Mobile No.1, which moved location several times, including the Hospital of Evacuation 32 at Bray-sur-Somme, a dangerous location within artillery range of the front line.

"At the Somme" [War Poetry] by Mary Borden-Turner published in The English Review, August 1917, page 97. Mary Borden Wikipedia.

• The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse by Ellen N. La Motte 1916. Archive.org. The author worked in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium. The dedication in the book indicates the hospital was run by Mary Borden-Turner, see previous entry.
• The Cellar-house of Pervyse : a tale of uncommon things from the journals and letters of the Baroness T'Serclaes and Mairi Chisholm by G E Mitton 1917 Archive.org. Volunteer ambulance drivers Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm in Belgium. Audio LibriVox recording Archive.org

Elsie and Mairi Go To War : two extraordinary women on the Western Front by Diane Atkinson 2010 Archive.org Lending Library

Also see Fiction below, for a book where there is a representation of these two women, but not as the main character.

• V.R. 76 : a French Military Hospital by Harold James Reckitt. 1921. Archive.org. A military hospital with a non-military administration. (Fondation Johnstone-Reckitt). The author was a previous British MP, with a family history of philanthropy.
• War Letters of an American Woman by Marie Van Vorst. 1916 Archive.org. A novelist, she worked as a volunteer nurse at the American Ambulance [Hospital]. Wikipedia
• Diary of a French Army Chaplain by Abbé Félix Klein, American Hospital, Neuilly, Paris. Translated by M. Harriet M Capes. 1915 Archive.org. Original title La Guerre vue d’une Ambulance, par l'abbé Félix Klein, aumônier de l'Ambulance américaine.
• Army Veterinary Service in War by Major-General Sir John Moore AVS 1921 Archive.org. Includes WW1.
• The Army Veterinary Corps : its work and its needs, and how it is helped by the R.S.P.C.A by John Galsworthy 1915 Archive.org. Includes a section "The AVC at the Front"
• A History of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, 1796-1919 by Sir Frederick Smith 1927. Click through to the various sections. Page 234 WW1. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk.
• 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.
• The Military Surgeon : Journal of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States HathiTrust Digital Library. Full view editions from 1907 to Volume 51, 1922 . There is an Index at the back of the volumes.
• Article: "Dermatology In A British General Hospital In France Including the Differentiation of "I. C. T." (Inflammation Connective Tissue)" by Frank Crozer Knowles, M.D. Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) October 19, 1918. Includes a comment regarding the prevalence of body lice [pediculus humanus humanus] and pubic lice on the majority of battlefield casualties.
• Mine Rescue Work on the Western Front by Lieut.-Colonel D Dale Logan RAMC 1920 HMSO. State Library of Victoria.
• Surgery at a Casualty Clearing Station by Cuthbert Wallace, Consulting Surgeon, British Armies in France, and John Fraser 1918 Archive.org. A medical book.

Indian Army

• Also see Histories and general, above
• 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 europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu, or the direct links include
  • IOR/L/MIL/17/5/2384 Indian Force for Europe. India Office Military Dept, 6 Sep 1914
  • IOR/V/27/281/33 Neuve Chapelle, India's Memorial in France, 1914-18. Published by authority of the Imperial War Graves Commission London 1927
  • Reports of the Censor of Indian Mails in France [Letters from Indian soldiers]:
    • IOR/L/MIL/5/825/1-8 Dec 1914-Apr 1915, Mar 1915-Apr 1915, Apr 1915-May 1915, Jun 1915-Aug 1915, Aug 1915-Sep 1915, Sep 1915-Oct 1915, Oct 1915-Nov 1915, Oct 1915-Dec 1915
    • IOR/L/MIL/5/826/1-9 Dec 1915-Jan 1916, Jan 1916-Mar 1916, Feb 1916-Apr 1916, Mar 1916-May 1916, May 1916-Jul 1916, Jul 1916-Aug 1916, Aug 1916-Oct 1916, Sep 1916-Nov 1916, Nov 1916-Dec 1916
    • IOR/L/MIL/5/827/1-6 Dec 1916-Feb 1917, Feb 1917-May 1917, Apr 1917-Jul 1917, May 1917-Oct 1917, Aug 1917-Dec 1917, Dec 1917-Mar 1918
    • IOR/L/MIL/5/828/1-3 Jul 1915-May 1918, Dec 1914-Jul 1918, Jun 1915-May 1918
• Our Indians at Marseilles by Massia Bibikoff ; with an introduction by Maurice Barrès ; translated by Leonard Huxley ; with 50 illustrations by the author. 1915 Archive.org
• On Two Fronts - Being the Adventures of an Indian Mule Corps in France and Gallipoli by Major H M Alexander DCO, S & T Corps, Indian Army 1917 Archive.org. A book in the series Soldiers' Tales of the Great War.
• The Year of Chivalry by Edmund Candler 1916. Archive.org. Many of the sketches first appeared in The Times or The Daily Mail.
  • "The Drabi" [Mule Driver] page 103.
• "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.

Army Service Corps

• From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.
• 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.
• On the road from Mons with an Army Service Corps Train by its commander (Capt. A. Clifton-Shelton, A.S.C.) 2nd edition 1917. HathiTrust Digital Library/
• 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.

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

• Battery Flashes by "Wagger" [Cecil W Longley] 1916 Archive.org. He was an artillery signaller, (who subsequently became an officer) and is considered to have been in the 2nd Gloucester Battery of 1st South Midland Brigade RFA (240 Bde).
• My .75 : reminiscences of a French gunner of a .75mm battery in 1914 by Paul Lintier, translated 1917 from the original French Ma Pièce. Souvenirs d'un canonnier, 1914. (Avec une batterie de 75.) published 1916. Archive.org. A book in the series Soldiers' Tales of the Great War.
• 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.

The Test of Scarlet, a Romance of Reality by Coningsby Dawson 1919 Archive.org. A 2011 edition was published under the title The Test of Scarlet: Experiences of an Artillery Officer During the First World War.

• The Breaking of the Storm by Captain C A L Brownlow RFA 1918 Archive.org.
• Letters of a Headmaster Soldier Letters of Harry Sackville Lawson, [Lieutenant RFA] 1918. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
• 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.
• Pushed and the Return Push by Quex [G H Nichols, RFA] 1919 Archive.org
• 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. Gutenberg.org version where photographs may be easier to view.
• A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations 1921 Archive.org. During WW1 he was on the Western Front with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
• The War Diary of the Master of Belhaven, 1914-1918 by Ralph GA Hamilton 1924. University of Oxford Digital Collection. Alternative direct pdf link, same website. Diary of the Hon. Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton, Master of Belhaven. Served as an interpreter with the Expeditionary Force in 1914 until wounded, returned to France in September 1915 as O/C “C” Bty., 108 Bde. Royal Field Artillery, 24th Div. Later rose to command the brigade. Killed in action 31st March 1918.
• WW1 period page 241 Sword And Stirrup by Hervey De Montmorency 1936 Archive.org. Initially the author commanded D Battery, 75th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. After the war he worked as an Intelligence Officer in Ireland.
• Moments of Memory: Recollections and Impressions by Herbert Asquith 1938. Archive.org. The author was the son of H H Asquith who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the commencement of the war until December 1916, and an officer in the Royal Marine Artillery. Herbert Asquith (poet)
• Also see In The Air, below, for letters of George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.
• Also see Fiction below for sketches written by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.

Cavalry

• With the Cavalry in the West by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
• The Picnic Basket by Major-General Sir Edward Spears. 1968. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes a chapter on a cavalry engagement at Nery 1st September 1914, pages 134-161, which involved the 11th Hussars, in which he had been an officer since 1910. Edward Spears Wikipedia.
• In the field (1914-1915); The impressions of an officer of light cavalry by Marcel Dupont, translated by H W Hill Archive.org 1916. Book No. 3 in the series Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War. Libribox audio version Archive.org. French edition Archive.org. Marcel Dupont (historien) (Wikipedia, French language). Pseudonym of Marcel Ernest Béchu, 7e Chasseurs à Cheval (7th Cavalry Chasseurs).
• Fighting the Hun from Saddle and Trench by Sergt. Major William R Jones, Royal Canadian Dragoons 1918 Archive.org
• The Cavalry Journal. Journal of the United States Cavalry Association. A; B; C includes full view V.30-31 1921-1922. Includes articles about the Western Front. Mainly full view HathiTrust.
• The Cavalry Journal. Published in London. A, B Hathi Trust. Restricted access -USA and equivalent access only Volume 1, 1906 to Volume 12, 1922. Index of articles up to Volume 23

Chaplains (Army)

• The Cross at the Front; Fragments from the Trenches by Thomas Tiplady, Chaplain to the Forces. 1917 Archive.org. Also published under the title The Kitten in the Crater. He was a Chaplain in the 56th Division of London Territorials.

The Soul of the Soldier; Sketches from the Western Battle-Front by Thomas Tiplady, Chaplain to the Forces. 1918 Archive.org. Includes "Chapter XI “Missing”" page 130, which explains when this classification was used.

• Letters of an Army Chaplain by William Duncan Geare 1918. Classified by IWM as Royal Army Chaplains Department, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 7, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 9. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer".
• A Padre in France by George Birmingham, the pseudonym for James Owen Hannay, c 1919. Archive.org. He was appointed to the Chaplains Department, British Army

Infantry and others

• With my Regiment; From the Aisne to La Bassée by "Platoon Commander" [Arthur F. H. Mills (Wikipedia)] 1915 Archive.org. Book No. 1 in the series Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War. It is stated elsewhere he was in the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.

Hospital Days by "Platoon Commander" 1916 Archive.org.

• The First Hundred Thousand, being the Unofficial Chronicle of a Unit of "K(1)" by Ian Hay (actual name John Hay Beith Wikipedia) 1915. American Edition with Publisher’s Note advises the author was with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Archive.org

Carrying on - After the First Hundred Thousand by Ian Hay 1917 Archive.org. Also published under the title All in It : K(1) Carries On: A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand.

• Leaves from a Field Note-Book by J. H. Morgan Late Home Office Commissioner with the British Expeditionary Force 1916 Archive.org. J. H. Morgan Wikipedia

Gentlemen At Arms by "Centurion" a Captain in the British Army who has served in France [J H Morgan] 1918 Archive.org. Stated elsewhere to be Volume 13 in the series Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War.

• Temporary Heroes by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1917. Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. He was a Lieutenant, 1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Letters from February 22, 1915 to July 27, 1916. For another book see Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)
• "Contemptible" by "Casualty", a Subaltern. 1916 Archive.org. Book 6, or 7 (numbers seen can vary) in the series Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War. The IWM website catalogues him as Arnold Alfred Ernest Gyde, 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshire Regiment.
• The Great Push : an Episode of the Great War by Patrick MacGill, 1917 Archive.org. The author served with the London Irish Rifles. Patrick MacGill (Wikipedia) Irish journalist, poet and novelist. An earlier book: The Amateur Army by Patrick MacGill 1915 Archive.org. Initial training in the UK.
• 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. Biographical details qormuseum.org
• 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. Vernon Bartlett Wikipedia. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".
• The Immortal First: a Private Soldier's Diary of his Experiences with the Original B.E.F., France by F Gaunt 1917. Ex Private 4th Royal Fusiliers. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer". Also available State Library of Victoria.
• Bullets & Billets by Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org. Gutenberg.org edition, with cartoons collected at the front of the file. Bruce Bairnsfather Wikipedia. He was an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who became very well known for his cartoons.

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. Vol. I, More Fragments from France 
Vol. II, Still more Fragments from France 
Vol. III, Fragments from France 
Vol. IV University of Wisconsin Digital Collections; 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.

• The Adventures of an Ensign by Vedette 1917 Archive.org "...the autobiography, thinly disguised as fiction and very cleverly written, of a subaltern who joined the Guards in France just before the battle of the Somme, in which he was wounded... The best chapters recount the magnificent advance of the Guards towards Lesboeufs on September 15th, 1916, the first day on which the tanks were used."
• Trench Pictures from France by Major William Redmond, MP [Member of Parliament], killed in action June 1917. [1917] Archive.org. The articles which make up the bulk of the book were originally contributed to the Daily Chronicle under a pseudonym. He joined the Royal Irish Division, Royal Irish Regiment.
• Twenty-two Months Under Fire by Henry Page Croft 1917 Archive.org. The author belonged to 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment.
• "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. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".
• "Ladies from Hell" by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish.
• 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 Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. He also flew as a military observer ("Chapter XI", page 131), and briefly commanded a tank ("Chapter XII", page 144).
• Keeling letters & recollections. [Frederic Hillersdon Keeling [Ben]] Edited by E.T. [Townshend, Mrs. (Emily)] 1918. The war years start page 183. Archive.org. A committed socialist, it appears he became a private, and later Sergeant-Major, in the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (although the text initially says Duke of York’s). Summary of a chapter titled "Frederic Hillersdon Keeling" from The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes. cambridge.org Biographical details winchestercollegeatwar.com
• If We Return; Letters of a Soldier of Kitchener's Army by G B Manwaring 1918 Archive.org.
• The Diary of a Dead Officer, being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West, c 1918. Archive.org. Includes Part V "Poems". Librivox audio version. Arthur Graeme West Wikipedia. He joined as a private; in August 1916 he became a second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
• A Private in the Guards by Stephen Graham 1919 Archive.org. Stephen Graham (author) Wikipedia. Also see a further book under Miscellaneous below.
• 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".
• 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.
• How I filmed the war; a record of the extraordinary experiences of the man who filmed the great Somme battles, etc. by Lieut Geoffrey H Malins 1920. Archive.org. For two years he was one of the official War Office Kinematographers, having previously done some free lance war work. How I Filmed the War LibriVox recording Archive.org.
• A Galloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish 1920. Archive.org. Butler was ADC to the General of the 7th Division.
• Combed Out by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. Frederick Augustus Voigt Wikipedia.
• The Confessions of a Private by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
• 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. Hervey Allen Wikipedia.
• Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. 2nd Hathi Trust file. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American novelist and journalist. Howard Vincent O'Brien Wikipedia. Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.
• 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".
• 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".
• Goodbye To All That by Robert Graves. New edition revised, November 1957, 2nd edition March 1958. First published 1929. Archive.org. (Catalogued with a different author). Graves was in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a Special Reserves Officer. Robert Graves Wikipedia
• Siegfried Sassoon was an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. See his entry under Fiction, below, which also includes a link to his handwritten Journals.
• A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. 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]. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".
• A Brass Hat in No Man's Land by Brig.-Gen. F P Crozier 1930. Archive.org.

The Men I Killed by Brigadier General F P Crozier 1937 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Frank Percy Crozier Wikipedia. He commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) Brigade and subsequently commanded the 119th (Welsh) Brigade.

• My Story of the Great War by Captain O H Woodward [Oliver Holmes], 1st Tunnelling Company AIF. Published Adelaide SA 1932. 1933 title: The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force. A series of 17 extracts appearing weekly in The Recorder Port Pirie, SA, 25 February 1933 to 17 June 1933, with Introductory article and book review both 13 February 1933, same newspaper. trove.nla.gov.au. Includes the firing of Hill 60 mines. Pre war, the author held a senior position in a mining company. Brief Chronology of the 1st Aust Tunnelling Coy, allocated to the Second Army tunnellers.net
• Scots Guard by W. H. G. Ewart [Wilfrid Herbert Gore] 1934. Posthumously published papers of Wilfrid Ewart, with reminisces of service as an officer with the Scots Guards from 1915 to the Armistice. Link to a pdf from the University of Oxford. Direct pdf. Also see Fiction below.
• From Mons to 1933 by Gerald Lowry 1934. Archive.org. A Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Royal Irish Rifles, he was blinded by a sniper on 26 October 1914. He subsequently qualified as a masseur, then as an osteopath.
• "The Winter of 1916-17" by Capt G D Mitchell 10th and 48th Battns AIF, a series of articles appearing in Reveille, published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch, commencing in December 1934, page 15 (digital 17) and continuing each month to at least October 1935. reveille.dlconsulting.com. Scroll from one issue to the next.There is reference elsewhere to further articles in Feb 1936 and Sept/Oct 1936. Mitchell, George Deane (1894–1961) Australian Dictionary of Biography. Also see Gallipoli for another series of articles.
• "L. M. 8046" : an intimate story of the Foreign Legion by David Wooster King 1927 Archive.org. An American, he joined the French Foreign Legion in August 1914, based in France, transferred to the French Army October 1915, and subsequently transferred to the American Army, including an Intelligence role. Some biographical details oac.cdlib.org, and more.
• American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918 by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.

List of Books about the French Foreign Legion booksandwriters.co.uk

• The Liddell Hart Memoirs 1895-1938 Volume I 1965. Archive.org Lending Library. The author became an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. B. H. Liddell Hart Wikipedia. Military historian and military theorist.

In the Air

• In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family 1916 Archive.org
• An Airman's Outings by "Contact" [Captain Alan Bott, R F C] 5th Impression 1917. Archive.org. Also published under the titles The Flying Ace (better digital file) Archive.org; Cavalry of the Clouds.
• 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
• Winged Warfare : Hunting the Huns in the Air by Major [William Avery] Bishop, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. Billy Bishop Wikipedia . He was the top Canadian ace of the war.
• The Royal Flying Corps in the War by "Wing Adjutant" 1918 Archive.org. The author is catalogued as W. T. (Wilfrid Theodore) Blake. Sketches, some personal experiences. Digitised microfiche.

Plane Tales from the Skies by "Wing Adjutant" [Wilfrid Theodore Blake] 1918 Archive.org

• Above the Battle by Vivian Drake 1918 Archive.org. Royal Flying Corps. Digitised microfiche.
• Lafayette Escadrille

The Story of the Lafayette Escadrille told by its Commander, Captain Georges Thenault. Translated by Walter Duranty 1921 Archive.org

The Lafayette Flying Corps ed. by James Norman Hall & Charles Bernard Nordhoff Volume I, Volume II 1920. Archive.org

Victor Chapman's Letters from France 1917. He was a member of the Franco-American Aviation Corps, who was killed 23 June 1916. Archive.org

With the French Flying Corps by Carroll Dana Winslow 1917 Archive.org

The Way of the Eagle by Major Charles J Biddle 1919 Archive.org. He was an American who joined the French Foreign Legion, Aviation Section, who flew in Escadrille Lafayette and subsequently in the AEF.

One Man's War : the Story of the Lafayette Escadrille by Lieutenant Bert Hall and Lieutenant John J. Niles 1929 Archive.org

• Air Service Medical Manual by [USA] War Department: Air Service. Division of Military Aeronautics, Washington, D.C 1918. Archive.org. With many photographs.
• An Aviator’s Field Book, being the Field Reports of Oswald Bölcke, from August 1, 1914 to October 28, 1916. Translated from the German by Robert Reynold Hirsch 1917 Archive.org. Oswald Boelcke (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
• The Red Battle Flyer by Captain Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen . Translated by T Ellis Barker 1918 Archive.org. UK title: The Red Air Fighter.(1918) Der Rote Kampfflieger 1917 Gutenberg.org. 1917 reprint German edition Archive.org. There was a 1933 German edition with additional text, originally censored, for which there was a 1969 English translation by Peter Kilduff The Red Baron. Manfred von Richthofen (Wikipedia). German flying ace.
• "Green Balls," the Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Paul Bewsher 1919 Archive.org
• Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. LibriVox audio recording Archive.org
• An Explorer in the Air Service by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org
• The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I by Stephen Longstreet 1970 Archive.org Lending Library.
• Horses Don't Fly by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. Captain Frederick Libby rafmuseum.org.uk. HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy" by Derek O’Connor.
• Also see Fiction, below.

Despatch Riders

• Adventures of a Despatch Rider by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated that editions after the first edition were heavily edited for censorship reasons, but as this edition was published in 1915, it may be the original edition.

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.

• The Daredevil of the Army : Experiences as a "Buzzer" and Despatch Rider by Captain A P Corcoran 1918 Archive.org

Machine Guns

• "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 Librivox, Archive.org.

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

• 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
• 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. 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.
• "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.
• 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.
• 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 ...)
• 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.
• The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 Archive.org
• Machine Guns by Julian S Hatcher, Glenn P Wilhelm, Harry J Malony of the Machine Gun School, Harlingen,Texas, USA. 1917. Archive.org
• See Sketches, above for sketches by Leslie Gore. Originally with the AIF. he went to France as Brigade Machine Gun Officer of the 6th Infantry Brigade, and subsequently took command of the 6th M.G. Coy.

Tanks

• The Tank Corps by Major Clough Williams-Ellis, M. C., and A. Williams-Ellis 1919 Archive.org. Although the digital file contains some images, some appear to be missing. HathiTrust Digital Library version which appears to contain more images.
• 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). Same title, reprinted from the Strand Magazine 1925 Archive.org.

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.

• Tanks, 1914-1918; the Log-Book of a Pioneer by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Albert G Stern 1919. Missing at least the first illustration. 2nd file Both Archive.org
• Life in a Tank by Richard Haigh, Captain of the Tank Corps 1918 Archive.org
• Tank Tales by "Tank Major" [Stephen Foot] and Eric Wood 1919 Archive.org
• Tanks in the Great War, 1914-1918 by Brevet-Colonel J F C Fuller (Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry) 1920 Archive.org
• A Company of Tanks by Major WHL Watson, 1920 Archive.org
• The Tank in Action by Captain D G Browne 1920 Archive.org
• "The Call: The Tale of a Tank" by Major FE Hotblack page 152 The Long Road to Victory edited by John Buchan 1920.
• "The Tanks at Cambrai'" by Lieutenant J C MacIntosh, Tank Corps page 181 The Long Road to Victory edited by John Buchan 1920.

Men and Tanks by J C MacIntosh. 1921 Archive.org. Part of the series On Active Service.

• 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 pdf download, Digital Library of India. Archive.org

Secret Service and Spies

• The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org. Also see a postwar book below. The author was/became a news reporter and post-war foreign correspondent.
• Detective & Secret Service Days by Edwin T Woodhall 1929. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". Extracts from the book: "Book I" pages 31-122, "Book II Secret Service Days", pages 125-162, of 282 pages in total. Archive.org. The 1937 edition was titled Detective and Secret Service Days. The author chronicles his experiences beginning briefly with his early days in 1906 in the London Metropolitan Police Force, and then on to when he subsequently became attached to the CID at Scotland Yard, the Special Political Department, the Secret Service Department and the Special Central Department. Details of the author casebook.org. Elsewhere it is stated that Chapter III "Military Ishmaels", page 143 is about Toplis who is discussed in an article, and that Chapter IV, "A Charming Spy", relates to Mata Hari, see below. He was also the author of Spies of the Great War : adventures with the Allied Secret Service by Edwin T. Woodhall 1932.
• Secret Service by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
• 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.
• All's Fair : the Story of the British Secret Service Behind the German Lines by Captain Henry Landau 1934 Archive.org. Henry Landau Wikipedia.

Secrets of the White Lady by Captain Henry Landau 1935 Missing at least page 13 which is found in a 2nd digital file, also missing at least one page. Both editions HathiTrust Digital Library. The White Lady was the codename for an underground intelligence network which operated in German-occupied Belgium during World War I. Dame Blanche (resistance) Wikipedia.

• Mata Hari by Major Thomas Coulson 3rd impression. Full title: Mata Hari Courtesan and Spy, first published 1930. Archive.org,

Also see Chapter IV "A Charming Spy" in Detective & Secret Service Days by Edwin T Woodhall 1929, above.

Official French files Margueritte Gertrude Zelle (French language), part of the database of those who were shot during the First World War. Click on the eye icons for the files. memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr. If this link is not permanent, try the website Search, using the French version website.

The National Archives Kew has two records KV2/1-2 "'Mata Hari' alias MCCLEOD Margaretha Geertruida (Marguerite Gertrude)", both available as a pay download. Catalogue record

• Spies I Knew by Marthe McKenna 1934 HathiTrust Digital Library. Belgian Marthe Cnockaert, 'Laura' of the British Intelligence Service.
• Modern spies tell their stories : personal narratives of many exploits in secret service edited by Richard W Rowan 1934 Archive.org.

Volunteers and others

• The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington 1920. [An autobiography]. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org. 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.
• The diary of an English resident in France during twenty-two weeks of war time by Rowland Strong 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated Rowland Strong was/had been the Paris correspondent for the Observer, the Morning Post and the New York Times.

The diary of an English resident in France during war time. Second series, Jan.-Dec. 1915 by Rowland Strong 1916 Archive.org.

• Over the Front in an Aeroplane, and Scenes inside the French and Flemish Trenches by Ralph Pulitzer 1915 Archive.org. The author was a New York newspaper proprietor.
• Roadside Glimpses of the Great War by Arthur Sweetser 1916 Archive.org. He was an American journalist who was in France from the early days of the war.
• Men, Women and War by Will Irwin 1915 Archive.org. The author was an American journalist. The author's Wikipedia page.

A Reporter at Armageddon: Letters from the Front and Behind the Lines of the Great War by Will Irwin. 1918. Archive.org.

"The Next War"; an Appeal to Common Sense by Will Irwin 1921 Archive.org.

• Some of my Experiences in the Great War by Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, war correspondent of the Daily Telegraph. 1918 Archive.org. The initial chapter concerns his escape from Vienna in late July 1914, pursued by war.
• For books by British journalist Philip Gibbs, including the autobiographical Adventures in Journalism, see Histories and general above.
• War Pictures Behind the Lines by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work.
• Padre, a Red Cross Chaplain in France by Sartell Prentice 1919 Archive.org. An American, he worked at an American Army hospital.
• The war years from page 90 Paint And Prejudice by C.R.W. Nevinson 1938. An artist, initially he was with the Red Cross as an ambulance driver/medical volunteer. He was subsequently a private in the RAMC until he was discharged on medical grounds probably c mid 1915. His father was a war correspondent, see Gallipoli.
• 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.
• Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
  • Article "The 100th anniversary of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps" by Elisabeth Shipton. thehistorypress.co.uk. “It was clarified that the women had enrolled as civilians and would not be enlisted in the army”.
  • Report. Commission of Enquiry. Minister of Labour. Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in France [dated March 20th 1918], transcribed version, archived page scarletfinders.co.uk.
  • The Sword of Deborah, first-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France by F. Tennyson Jesse 1919 Archive.org. Librivox audio version Archive.org.
• A Minstrel in France by Harry Lauder 1918 Archive.org. Harry Lauder (Wikipedia) was a very well known Scottish singer and comedian who had achieved international success.
• Canteening Overseas, 1917-1919 by Marian Baldwin 1920 Archive.org. The author was mostly with the American YMCA in France.
• 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

• Map of the main prison camps in Germany and Austria, with Gazeteer by Mrs Pope Hennessy. Catalogued 1920. Printed in London. Archive.org. Map
• 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.
• Prisoner of War by André Warnod. Tranlated by M Jourdain 1916 Archive.org. A book in the series Soldiers' Tales of the Great War.
• 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,
• The British interned in Switzerland by Lieut.-Colonel H P Picot 1919 Archive.org.
• Three Years a Prisoner in Germany by Major J C Thorn, a First Canadian Contingent Officer 1919 Archive.org.
• Within Four Walls: A Classic of Escape by Major M C C Harrison, Royal Tank Corps, late the Royal Irish Regiment, and Captain H A Cartwright, late The Duke of Cambridge’s Own) Middlesex Regiment). First published 1930. Archive.org.
• 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.

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".

• The First Springbok Prisoner in Germany by Corporal E Doitch 1st S A I. 1917. Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. The website is in German, the book in English. Read online, or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
• Books on Archive.org, classified by the uploader "World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons, German" and "World War, 1914-1918 -- Prisoners and prisons", with some overlap.
• Also see First World War - Historical books online for more online books about Prisoners of War.
• Kriegsgefangene Völker. Band I. Kriegsgefangenen Haltung und Schicksal in Deutschland von Wilhelm Doegen. 1921 Archive.org. German language. [Prisoners of War, Volume I: POWs attitude and destiny in Germany].

Miscellaneous

• Notes on uniforms and insignia : French, Belgian, British, German compiled and edited at the [USA] Army War College, December 1917. Harvard University Digital Library.
• 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories Reprinted from the London Evening News. 1920 Archive.org
• Self pronouncing 9,000 names of places in the war zones: Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, Switzerland, Austria-Hungary, Italy, France 1919, published USA. Archive.org
• The Care of the Dead 1916 Archive.org. A short pamphlet about the Army’s Graves Registration Units.
• The Silent Cities: an illustrated guide to the war cemeteries and memorials to the 'Missing' in France and Flanders: 1914-1918 by Sidney C. Hurst 1929. Photographs are dark, without detail. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
• Various Michelin Guides to the Battlefields. Scroll down to publication dates 1917 -1920 Archive.org.
• The Challenge of the Dead. A vision of the war and the life of the common soldier in France, seen two years afterwards between August and November, 1920 by Stephen Graham 1921 Archive.org. Stephen Graham (author) Wikipedia. Also see a previous book under Infantry and others above.
• Shootings at Dawn: The Army Death Penalty at Work by Ernest Thurtle MP. Published 1920s. Archive.org. Ernest Thurtle Wikipedia. He campaigned in the 1920s to bring about the abolition of the death penalty for cowardice or desertion in the British Army.
• The Horse and the War by Captain Sidney Galtrey. Illustrated from drawings by Captain Lionel Edwards and from photographs. 1918 Archive.org
• 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.

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.

• Birds and the War by Hugh Stewart Gladstone 1919 Archive.org. Includes "Chapter 1: Birds as Messengers"
• 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.

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

• A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward S Farrow, late of the United States Military Academy. Revised edition 1918. Archive.org.
• 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.
• Dictionnaire des termes militaires et de l'argot poilu [1916] Archive.org
• The soldier's service dictionary of English and French terms, embracing 10,000 military, naval, aeronautical, aviation, and conversational words and phrases used by the Belgian, British, and French armies, with their French equivalents carefully pronounced, the whole arranged in one alphabetical order, designed especially for instant use in the United States service Edited by Frank H Vizetelly 1917 Archive.org
• Handbook of English and French terms for the use of military aviators by G Chinard and ER Hedrick 1917 Archive.org
• Vocabulary of German Military Terms and Abbreviations by Army War College [USA] “Reprint of a British Document” 1917 Archive.org
• Handbook of simple German words and phrases : with map of the Rhineland "Printed by A.I.F. Printing Section -- in the Field." 1918. State Library of Victoria
• 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

German Army

• Also see Histories and general above.
• The German War Book: being "The Usages of War on Land" issued by the Great General Staff of the German Army translated with a critical introduction by J H Morgan 1915 Archive.org. The USA title was The War Book of the German General Staff… Translation of Kriegsbrauch im Landkriege Archive.org

Germany's Dishonoured Army by Professor J H Morgan (Late Home Office Commissioner with the British Expeditionary Force) 1915 Archive.org

German Atrocities: An Official Investigation by J H Morgan 1916 Archive.org.

• 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

• 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.
• Summary of recent information regarding the German Army and its methods by General Staff (Intelligence) General Headquarters. January, 1917. Archive.org.
• Handbook of the German Army in War. Issued by the General Staff, British Army ”For Official Use Only”. January, 1917; November, 1918. British Library Digital Collection.
• 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.
• Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter. [...], Ehemals preußische Truppenteile 44 German Army Regimental online histories, (German language), from Deutsche Digital Bibliothek, from the collection of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.

Deutsche National Bibliothek catalogue entry: Infanterieregimenter Select the main category and subcategories, then select Publikationen, then use the filter on the RHS of the page "Online (frei zugänglich)". (German language). Also see the Great War Forum topic "Regimental histories at the German National Library (DNB)". Deutsche National Bibliothek catalogue entry: Deutsches Heer includes links to categories Kavallerie, Artillerie etc, however only a few titles appear to have been digitised.

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. Use the search term Weltkrieg, or Infanterie Regiment to locate many other regimental histories and and other publications. Also from this website Kriegsgeschichte der 12. Batterie Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr 13.

Digital Library of Wielkopolska (Network of Polish Digital Libraries) contains some online German Regimental Histories (German language).

Links to further regimental histories (German language) may be found in the Great War Forum topic "Free German Regimental History Books" and "More German Regimental histories due soon". For some of the latter Search SLUB Dresden Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) Dresden.

German language digitised documents from State Archives of the Russian Federation. German language webpage, Google Translate English webpage. Includes KriegsTageBuch (KTB) and German maps. tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org

• Die graue Felduniform der deutschen Armee 5th edition [1915] Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Read online, or download. File of images, Archive.org 1910 edition
• With the German Armies in the West by Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by H G de Walterstorff 1915 Archive.org. Another version Archive.org where illustrations may be clearer. The author travelled from Sweden, which was a neutral nation, so that he could view the war with his own eyes, and study the psychology of war.
• In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers by Ernst Jünger 1922. Gutenberg.org. German language. There are English translations, not available online, under the title Storm of Steel (Wikipedia).

Post War including British Occupation of Germany

• The Occupation of the Rhineland : 1918-1929 by J. E Edmonds, (James Edward, Sir). Originally published under restricted circulation 1944. Series: History of the Great War. Available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in World War II/Military Books/Germany.

• The Present State Of Germany. A Lecture delivered in the University of London on November 20th, 1923, with an Introduction by J H Morgan [John Hartman]. 2nd impression 1924. Archive.org. For more online books by J H Morgan, see other sections, above, and also First World War. Morgan also wrote Assize of Arms: The Disarmament of Germany and her Rearmament (1919–1939) (1945).
• Cockpit of Peace 1919-1925 by Ferdinand Tuohy 1926. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand. Note, this website has been noticed to be unavailable at times, possibly it may only be accessible during "office hours". The author was a post-war foreign correspondent. Also see his book under Secret Service and Spies, above.
• Life in the Occupied Area by Katharine Tynan 1925 Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Direct link to book Bavarian State Library website. Spectator review, 1925
• Peace Patrol by Lt.-Col. Stewart Roddie 1932. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Roddie was a member of the Inter- Allied Commission of Control in Germany in the 1920s.

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". Its predecessor, also an autobiographical novel, is Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, first published 1928. Archive.org Lending Library. The third book in the trilogy is Sherston's Progress, first published 1936. Archive.org Lending Library.
  • Sassoon Journals Cambridge Digital Library. Links to handwritten Journals.
• All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. Archive.org Lending Library. Other digital files are available to borrow. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War"..

Audio version: All Quiet On The Western Front Archive.org

About the book Wikipedia. First published 1929, original German title Im Westen nichts Neues Archive.org.

• Half-novel, half-autobiography, the author states the events described actually happened : The Middle Parts of Fortune: Somme and Ancre, 1916 by Frederic Manning 1929. Pdf download of a transcription, University of Sydney Digital Collection. Subsequently published in an expurgated version as Her Privates We by Private 19022. 1930 Archive.org. Considered “as being true to the actual experience of modern warfare in ways that nothing else had managed to be”. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".
• The Secret Battle by A P Herbert 1919. Archive.org. One of three novels published in 1919 praised for its convincing account of war, and recommended by Churchill. The first part of the book is set at Gallipoli, the latter part on the Western Front. The Secret Battle Librivox audio book by A P Herbert. Archive.org. A. P. Herbert Wikipedia.
• 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.
• Verdun The Prelude, and The Battle by Jules Romains. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. 1940, first published in English 1939. Archive.org Note: Lacks title page. Book 15 Prélude à Verdun and Book 16 Verdun (published 1938), Volume 8 (some editions), from the 27 volume series Men of Goodwill (Les Hommes de bonne volonté). 2nd Archive.org file
• 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".
• Way of revelation : a novel of five years by Wilfrid Ewart 1922 Archive.org. Ewart was an officer in the Scots Guards, refer Infantry and others above.
• The Spanish Farm Trilogy 1914-1918 by R H Mottram, originally published 1924-1926. Trilogy edition 1927 Archive.org. "The underappreciation of R. H. Mottram's World War I novels" by Patrick Reardon 10 December 2015 Chicago Tribune. Ralph Hale Mottram Wikipedia.
• 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.

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

• Publisher’s note about the author c page 3

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. 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

• Edgar Wallace who subsequently became known as the ‘King of Thrillers’ wrote, between 1904 and 1918, a large number of mostly humorous sketches about life in the British Army relating the escapades and adventures of privates Smith (Smithy), Nobby Clark, Spud Murphy and their comrades-in-arms, including

Smithy and the Hun by Edgar Wallace 1915

Nobby: Jam for the Enemy by Edgar Wallace 1915

Nobby On Getting Commissions by Edgar Wallace 1915 . Transcriptions from Roy Glashan’s Library formerly FreeRead freeread.com.au.

• Young Hilda at the Wars by Arthur H Gleason 1915 Archive.org. The photograph at the front of the book is stated to be that of Helen, the author’s wife. Other characters in the book are stated to be based on Ambulance drivers Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm who worked as volunteers in Belgium.
• 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. A review says "These are the familiar "green envelopes" of active service during the war. ...letters which were really written…" (names changed). The British Library catalogue entry includes the words "A novel", however in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, the book is classified WW1 Personal narratives, British. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
• 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. 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.
• 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". "Biggles" by Daniel Tangri. friardale.co.uk.
• Dastral of the Flying Corps by Rowland Walker. First published 1917. Gutenberg.org. Archive.org version About the author. The author was in the RFC. An adventure story.
• Adventure stories for younger readers
  • By Herbert Strang. Gutenberg.org.

  A Hero of Liége: A Story of the Great War 1914.

  Fighting with French: A Tale of the New Army 1915.

  Burton of the Flying Corps. 1916

  • The Boy Allies… Multiple titles by two authors, Robert Drake and Clair W Hayes, published from 1915. Archive.org. Multiple titles Gutenberg.org
  • The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line, or With the Allies in France by Ralph Marlow 1916 Gutenberg.org Archive.org version