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 Great War: France and Flanders" by Tom Donovan 2015. Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India.
• 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
• George Morton-Jack talks about sources of the personal stories used in his book The Indian Empire at War 6 July 2020. YouTube video.
• 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, now archived. 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 Frank Alexander de Pass VC, 1914 Photograph. 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.

"Illiterate but Literary: The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-18" by Dr David Omissi, recorded on 2 November 2015. YouTube video, NationalArmyMuseumUK. Transcript of the video nam.ac.uk, now archived.

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. Transcript of an interview with Gordon Corrigan, author of Sepoy in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front, 1914-15.

Video: "Sepoys in the Trenches: The Indian Corps on the Western Front 1914-15" Major Gordon Corrigan MBE (Retd, Royal Gurkha Rifles), talks about the vital but unrecognised role of the Indian Army in the First World War, highlighting the Sikh contribution. A talk from a symposium convened by the UK Punjab Heritage Association on 31 August 2014. YouTube.

• 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 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.
• "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.
• British Cavalry on the Western Front 1916-1918 by David Kenyon 2008 PhD Thesis, Department of Defence Management and Security Analysis, Cranfield University, UK.
• 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.
• "Clearing the Dead" by Peter E. Hodgkinson from WWI Resource Centre vlib.us. The process of the clearance and burial of the remains of British soldiers from the Great War battlefields.
• 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. 100 drawings. Archive.org version images only, no text.

War Drawings by Muirhead Bone. From the Collection presented to the British Museum by His Majesty's Government in six Parts, total 60 drawings. published 1917-1918. British Library Digital file, where images may be rotated. There appears to be some overlap.

• 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. Gutenberg.org edition.
• [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.
• War Paintings & Drawings by British Artists: exhibited under the auspices of the Ministry of information, London 1919. Mostly black and white plates, and many are at the back of the book. Archive.org

Maps

• Guides and articles
  • "How to read a Trench Map" by Howard Anderson, October 2008 Western Front Association, now an archived webpage.
  • 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.

  • Guide: "Finding First World War maps: Western Front" Australian War Memorial.
  • Great War Mapping 1914-1918 1stmiddlesex.com. Contains links to Report on Survey of The Western Front 1914-1918 by Colonel E.M. Jack HMSO 1920, see further down this section.
  • Article "Mapping The Front" Western Front Association.
  • "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
• Western Front Maps from McMaster University, Canada. Text Search using Place Name or Trench Name.

World War I (1914-1918) [Maps] Digital Archive@McMaster University Library.

• 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.
• Gazetteer of the Western Front - 2020 - part of the tMapper Suite. tmapper.com. An expanded update of the 2013 publication Gazetteer of the Western Front by John Reed. Search parameters include Trench name. "Each successful search elicits a trench map reference and latitude, longitude and these form the database anchor for a researcher wishing to delve deeper, asking to see nearby towns, populations, elevation, Victoria Cross recipients, battles and Commonwealth War Graves cemeteries within a defined range". Details.
• British Trench Maps Ontology Specification - 1.0. An ontology to markup information on the British Trench Map Coordinate system used during the Great War. The Muninn Project

Great War British Trench Map Coordinates Converter muninn-project.org. Allows you to enter specific map references but note "Still Experimental" and "For development purposes only". May require Chrome as browser.

• Trench maps of the Western Front (select Imagery and Maps) from the collection of the Australian Army History Unit, located under Our Heritage/History/Primary Materials/1914 to 1918 - World War One/Imagery and Maps. Mainly British maps, with the focus on battlefields where the Australian Imperial Force fought, but includes a few German maps.
• World War I Maps North Carolina Digital Collections, digital.ncdcr.gov. Mainly France and Belgium. Click on maps to enlarge.
• 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
• German maps of France and Belgium 1916-1918 Feldmässig hergestellte Fliegkarte (Field produced flying map) catalogued as Repülőtérkép Brügge-Párizs-Genf területére, catalogue reference B V a 207. Hungaricana - Hungarian Cultural Heritage Portal. A series of 26 maps.
• 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 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. Archive.org. Transcription of this Pamphlet 1stmiddlesex.com
• Report on Survey on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Great Britain: War Office: General Staff: Geographical Section (E M Jack) (London: HMSO, 1920). Scanned version, Transcribed version Both 1stmiddlesex.com. Also available linked from Heritage Material, NZSappers. Many of the guides and articles above list this book as a useful reference.
• Volume II Maps to accompany A Military History of the World War by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Archive.org.
• A Military Atlas of the First World War by Arthur Banks 1975 Archive.org Lending Library.
• 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.
• War Books : a Critical Guide by Cyril Falls 1930. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

British Autobiographies : an annotated bibliography of British autobiographies published or written before 1951 by William Matthews. Index page 372: World War I. 1984 reprint edition, first published 1955. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Sample pages Google Books

A subject bibliography of the First World War : books in English, 1914-1978 by A. G. S. Enser 1979. 1990 revised edition including title wording 1914-1987 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

A later book is World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919 by Edward G. Lengel 2004, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013277719 . Lengel has a website which includes information about WW1 books.

Official Histories and Battles

• 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. Often there were separate volumes/cases of maps which generally have not been digitised.
  • Volume I August-October 1914: 1922 edition, Revised text 1937 edition
  • Volume II October-November 1914 1925 Archive.org
  • Originally from the Digital Library of India. 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, Maps from Separate case, Volume I, 1918 Archive.org-Contents The maps available are 2-13, but they are not in numerical order in the digital file; 1918 Volume II, Archive.org; 1918 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 Military Books-located by the Search/France, letter M). It is thought the separate volumes of maps are all included.
• History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4 all by Major A.F. Becke (London: HMSO, 1935-1945) are available in reprint editions, which in turn are available as one digital book of 1224 pages titled Order of Battle of Divisions on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain.
• Report of the Committee on the Lessons of the Great War 13 Oct 1932 includes two Appendices on the Western Front. (Details.) A War Office report, also known as the Kirke Report it is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain. Also available at the National Archives, Kew, WO 33/1297.
• Army. The official names of the battles and other engagements fought by the military forces of the British Empire during the Great War, 1914-1919, and the Third Afghan War, 1919. Report of the Battles Nomenclature Committee as approved by the Army Council. This publication is available on the subscription website UK Parliamentary Papers, reference Command Papers/ Accounts and Papers/ Session: 1921/Paper Number: Cmd. 1138. See Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories for details and suggested access. Your Library needs to have subscribed for the module for this period. Also available at the National Archives, Kew, WO 161/102.
• 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.
• 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.

Sir Douglas Haig's Despatches (December 1915-April 1919) edited by Lieut.-Colonel J H Boraston (Private Secretary to Earl Haig) 1919. Microform edition has a series of maps (in sections). Archive.org

• Germany in Defeat. A Strategic History of the War by Count Charles de Souza. First Phase 3rd edition 1916. Joint author Major Haldane MacFall; Second Phase 1916; Third Phase 1916; Fourth Phase 1919. All Archive.org
• 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

• The First World War : an Illustrated History by A J P Taylor. 1980? edition, originally published 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• The First World War : a Complete History by Martin Gilbert 1994 File 1, File 2, File 3 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Martin Gilbert Wikipedia. British historian. Also see his book further below Somme : the Heroism and Horror of War.
• The First World War by John Keegan 1999. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. About the book penguinrandomhouse.com which says "The definitive account of the Great War and national bestseller". John Keegan Wikipedia. Military historian.
• A World Undone : the Story of the Great War, 1914-1918 by G J Meyer 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A popular history (712 digital pages) whose objectives were to weave together all of the story’s most compelling elements “in the most readable form possible…”.
• 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. Archive.org mirror version, originally from Digital Library of India.

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

• 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.
• Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918. The twelve volumes include France, four volumes. Australian War Memorial website.

Volume III The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916 by C E W Bean 1929 Archive.org

Volume IV The Australian Imperial Force In France 1917 by C E W Bean 1933 Archive.org

Volume V The Australian Imperial Force in France During the Main German Offensive 1918 [December 1917-May 1918] by C E W Bean 1937 Archive.org. Also available 1983 edition, based on 1943 edition Archive.org Lending Library.

Volume VI ( but catalogued Vol IV) The Australian Imperial Force In France during the Allied Offensive, 1918 by C E W Bean 1942 Archive.org

Volume VIII The Australian Flying Corps in the Western and Eastern theatres of war, 1914-1918 by F M Cutlack 2nd edition 1933, first published 1923. Archive.org

• France 1916 Page 301 Khaki and Gown : an Autobiography by Field-Marshal Lord Birdwood 1941. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Birdwood was Commander Australian and New Zealand contingent. Appointed Commander of the Fifth Army in France 31 May 1918.
• The Australian Victories in France in 1918 by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash [1920] Archive.org. Images and maps from the book (different digital file) Archive.org. Monash became Commander of the Australian Corps late May 1918.
• 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". (US WW1 Military Service Records greatwar.co.uk)

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.

Canada in Flanders: The Official Story of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. Volume I 1916, Volume II 7th edition 1917. The Preface includes errors in Volume I. Volumes I and II by Sir Max Aitken MP who became Lord Beaverbrook; Volume III by Major Charles G D Roberts 1918 Archive.org. The Preface includes errors in Volume II. All Archive.org.

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.

• The History of the South African Forces in France by John Buchan 1920 Archive.org. Also see next category, under Royal Engineers for some details of South African Engineers units who served in France. See further below for more books by John Buchan.
• 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 1914 bis 1918 and Schlachten des Weltkrieges, and click on Bandliste, for a list of the volumes available, or if these URLs are not permanent, use Recherche [Digitalisierte Bestände].

• A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918 by Thomas G Frothingham, Captain U. S. Reserves. 1921 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also see First World War-Naval, for further books by this author, who was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW1.
• A Military History of the World War by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Volume I contains the Narrative. Volume II contains the Maps. Based on a series of lectures. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org.
• 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
  • See above for a further book, about the South African Forces.
• 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 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.
• 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. Also available Archive.org. [September 1914]
• Liaison, 1914. A Narrative of the Great Retreat by Brigadier-General E L Spears (Late 11th Hussars) 1930 Archive.org. The author was then "the Liaison Officer between the British Army, and the Fifth, or most Northerly of the whole line of French Armies". Also his book below under Cavalry.
• The Campaign of the Marne, 1914 by Sewell Tyng 1935 Archive.org
• Death of an Army by Anthony Farrar-Hockley 1968. Additional title on cover The first battle of Ypres, 1914, in which the British regular Army was destroyed. [October-November 1914]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Catastrophe : Europe goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The war to December 1914. Max Hastings Wikipedia. British journalist/editor and military historian.
• The Donkeys by Alan Clark 1962 Archive.org. “This study is concerned simply with what the Army was ordered to do, and what happened when it attempted to carry out those orders; … 1915 saw the core of professional quality dissipated..”
• 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. Verdun: 21 February – 18 December 1916.
• The Road to Verdun: World War I’s most momentous battle and the folly of nationalism by Ian Ousby 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
• 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 Battle of the Somme by John Masefield 1919 Archive.org

• The First Day on the Somme, 1 July 1916 by Martin Middlebrook 1972. 2nd file, 1984 reprint. Archive.org Lending Library. Includes interviews with many survivors, both British and German.

The Somme Battlefields : a Comprehensive Guide from Crécy to the Two World Wars by Martin and Mary Middlebrook 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

• The Somme : the day-by-day account by Chris McCarthy 1993. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
• The Imperial War Museum Book of the Somme by Malcolm Brown 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
• The 1916 Battle of the Somme : a reappraisal by Peter Liddle 2001. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
• Attrition : the Great War on the Western Front, 1916 by Robin Neillands 2001. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• The Somme by Gary Sheffield 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
• Somme : the Heroism and Horror of War by Martin Gilbert 2006. 2nd file. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see his book above The First World War : a Complete History
• Three Armies on the Somme : the First Battle of the Twentieth Century by William Philpott 2011, first published 2009. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Somme 1916 by Andrew Robertshaw 2014. Cover has extra title Battle Story. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• In Flanders Fields: the 1917 Campaign by Leon Wolff 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Cheerful Sacrifice : the Battle of Arras, 1917 by Jonathan Nicholls 1990. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. April-May 1917.
• Pillars of Fire : the Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917 by Ian Passingham 1998. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• A Brigadier in France 1917-1918 by Hanway R Cumming [1922] Archive.org. He was in command of the 110th Brigade, 21st Division.
• 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

• 1918 The Last Act by Barrie Pitt 1964. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• The Western Front, 1914-1918 by John Terraine 1965. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

To Win a War : 1918, the Year of Victory by John Terraine 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

See further below for an additional book by John Terraine about Douglas Haig. John Terraine Wikipedia.

• The Killing Ground : the British Army, the Western Front, and the Emergence of Modern Warfare, 1900-1918 by Timothy Travers 1987. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Books by Lyn Macdonald. Opinions about this author differ, but generally her books are considered to provide a good introduction to WW1, and to concentrate on the personal experience of the soldier, but lack the broader picture of the war.

1914 by Lyn Macdonald 1988.

Somme by Lyn Macdonald 1983.

To the Last Man: Spring 1918 by Lyn Macdonald 1998. All Archive.org Lending Library.

• VCs of the First World War: The Somme by Gerald Gliddon, first published 1991. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

Legacy of the Somme, 1916 : the battle in fact, film, and fiction by Gerald Gliddon 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

• The Western Front by Richard Holmes 2000. Additional title on cover Ordinary Soldiers and the Defining Battles of World War I.

The First World War in Photographs by Richard Holmes in association with Imperial War Museum (Great Britain) 2001

Tommy : the British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918 by Richard Holmes 2005. All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

• Victoria Cross Heroes by Michael Ashcroft 2006. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes WW1.

Generals and Army Headquarters

• The private papers of Douglas Haig, 1914-1919: being selections from the private diary and correspondence of Field-Marshal the Earl of Bemersyde edited by Robert Blake 1952 Archive.org. There was a subsequent selection of papers (with more emphasis on Haig’s military role), Douglas Haig: War Diaries and Letters 1914-1918 edited by Gary Sheffield and John Bourne 2005, the latter book based on the manuscript version of the diaries (Blake’s used the typescript).
• A visit to Sir Douglas Haig by Isaac F Marcosson [American journalist and editor] 1917 Archive.org

Sir Douglas Haig's Command, December 19, 1915, to November 11, 1918 by George A. B. Dewar, assisted by Lieut.-Col. J. H. Boraston 1922. Volume I, Volume II Archive.org

Twenty-five Years With Earl Haig by Sergt T Secrett 1929. Archive.org

Field-Marshal Earl Haig by Brigadier General John Charteris 1929 (391 pages). Haig by Brig.-Gen. J Charteris 1933 (144 pages) Archive.org. Also see another book by Charteris At G.H.Q further below in this section.

Haig by Duff Cooper first published 1935. Haig: The Second Volume by Duff Cooper 1935. Comments about the books from pages 184-188 of Cooper's autobiography. All Archive.org.

Ordeal of Victory by John Terraine 1963. Published in England under the title Douglas Haig: The Educated Soldier. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. John Terraine wrote additional books, see below in this section.

Haig : the Evolution of a Commander by Andrew A West 2005. Archive.org Lending Library

• Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson by Major-General Sir C E Callwell 1927. Volume I, Volume II. Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet Wikipedia
• Plumer Of Messines by General Sir Charles Harington 1935 Archive.org. General Herbert Plumer, Commander of the Second Army. Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer Wikipedia.

"The Great War" page 41 Tim Harington Looks Back by General Sir Charles Harington 1941 reprint, first published 1940. 2nd file, images slightly better Both Archive.org. The author was Chief of Staff to General Herbert Plumer, Commander of the Second Army. Charles Harington Harington Wikipedia.

• The Life of General Lord Rawlinson of Trent: from his journals and letters edited by Major-Genersl Sir Frederick Maurice 1928 Archive.org. Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson Wikipedia. He commanded the Fourth Army of the British Expeditionary Force at the battles of the Somme (1916) and Amiens (1918).
• Eye-witness's narrative of the war; from the Marne to Neuve Chapelle, September, 1914-March, 1915 by an Eyewitness present with General Headquarters 1915 Archive.org. Catalogued authors Swinton and Percy, see following book.

Swinton was Official Correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force in France, as newspaper correspondents were not allowed.

A year ago; eye-witness's narrative of the war from March 20th to July 18th, 1915 by Lieutenant-Colonel E D Swinton RE and Captain The Earl Percy 1916 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) 1932. Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection

• 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 French  : a personal narrative by Frederic Coleman. 1916 Archive.org. Published in London. Contains illustrations but missing at least first page of the Preface. USA title From Mons to Ypres with General French: a Personal Narrative by Frederic Coleman. 1916 Archive.org. Edition without illustrations. 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 British Army at War by Frank Fox RFA. 1917 Archive.org. A simplified overview which aimed to give “a general impression of the extent and variety of [the British] Army’s energies”, designed, (according to Wikipedia) to educate the American Public about the British war effort.

G.H.Q. (Montreuil-Sur-Mer) by “G.S.O”. [Sir Frank Fox] 1920 Archive.org. Frank Fox (author). He served as Staff Captain at the Quartermaster General's branch, General Headquarters, in France. He had previously been an officer in the Royal Field Artillery, and pre-war a journalist.

• At G.H.Q by Brigadier-General John Charteris 1931 Archive.org. John Charteris (Wikipedia) was the Chief of Intelligence at the British Expeditionary Force General Headquarters from 1915 to 1918. Also see his books on Field-Marshal Haig, above.
• 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.

Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general

• 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 revised 1919 second edition is also available as three different files, originally from Digital Library of India: Archive.org mirror version 1 (catalogued as The Indian Corps In Rance); Archive.org 2; Archive.org 3
• 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; 20th Deccan Horse; 29th Lancers (Deccan 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 41st Dogras, 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; 9th Gurkha Rifles; 2nd Bombay Pioneers; Bengal, Madras, Bombay Sappers and Miners.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• The First Great Air War by Richard Townshend Bickers 1988 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I by George K Williams 1999. Archive.org.
• 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 Ancestry owned pay website fold3 contains many online Regimental and Divisional histories consisting of online versions of reprints from Naval & Military Press in respect of WWI (and other) periods, located in Military Books-located by the Search, then select Britain, or France. The category International also contains a sub category Australia Military Book Collection, which appear to be original scans from "Gould Genealogy and History"/"Australian and States Military Collection"). There are also additional titles in other categories, catalogued under the actual title, rather than under Military Books.

findmypast, pay website, includes a database British Army Records & Regimental Histories, located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records, introduced 2019/03/22, when it contained two WW1 Regimental histories, (but perhaps additional titles will be added). Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'. Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version, for books which are on both pay websites.

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

The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914-1918 by J C Latter 1949. Volume I, V.I Contents; Volume II, V. II Contents. Transcribed editions by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk.

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. Volume One 1st, 2nd and 3rd Battalions. Digital Archive@McMaster University Library. Volume Three transcribed edition 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th Battalions. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Transcribed edition by OCR, so subject to errors. Reprint editions (from Naval & Military Press) of the three volumes are also available as one digital file of 1320 digital pages on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.

The Coldstream Guards, 1914-1918 by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg 1928 HathiTrust Digital Library

Morale: a study of men and courage; the Second Scottish Rifles at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915 by John Baynes 1967 Archive.org Lending Library

The 10th (P. W. O.) Royal Hussars and the Essex Yeomanry during the European War, 1914-1918 by Lt.-Col. F H D C Whitmore 1920 Archive.org

The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Archive.org.

Pdf downloads available from the Light Dragoons Regimental Association: History of the 15th The King's Hussars 1914-1922 by Lord Carnock 1932; The Memoirs of the 18th - Queen Mary's Own - Royal Hussars, 1906-1922, including operations in the Great War by Brig.-General Charles Burnett, published 1926.

• The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Archive.org mirror version from Digital Library of India. 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.
• For railways, see First World War-Historical books online-Corps, Munitions, Equipment, Railways etc. and scroll down.
• A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Archive.org mirror version from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I).
• History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume V: The Home Front, France Flanders and Italy in the First World War, edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952 nzsappers.org.nz

The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War 1914-1919. Six full view editions from HathiTrust Digital Library: Water Supply - France. Part I. General development of organization, plant and works. Part II. Operations (1921); Work in the field under the engineer in chief, B. E. F.. Geological work on the Western Front (1922); Military mining (1922); Supply of engineer stores and equipment (1921); Bridging (1921); Work in the field in other theatres of war. Egypt and Palestine--Water supply (1921). Four of these editions are available as pdfs from nzsappers.org.nz under Heritage Material/World War One.

Available at the British Library: Water supply. [Containing 9 maps showing the] Water supply in France] (1921) UIN: BLL01004844114 ; Work under the Director of Works (France) (1924) UIN: BLL01006788368 ; Miscellaneous: The organization and expansion of the Corps, 1914-18. Organization of engineer intelligence and information. Camouflage service. Concrete defence works and factories. Forward communications. Machinery, workshops, and electricity. Anti-Aircraft searchlights. Inundations. Schools. Compiled by Colonel G. H. Addison. 1926. (372 pages) BLL01007769877. All the Miscellaneous sections have been reprinted as separate volumes by Naval&Military Press. Also available online HathiTrust Digital Library for those with University access.

"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.

Chapter 1 Salute the Sappers by Neil Orpen with H.J. Martin. Series South African Forces World War II, Volume 8, Part 1. Published Johannesburg : Sappers Association, c1981-c1982. Details the formation of the S.A. Signal Company, R. E., and other South African Engineer units who served in France and East Africa. Transcription from ibiblio.org/hyperwar.

• The Signal Service in the European War of 1914-1918 (France) by R E Priestley (Late Major, R E) 1921 Archive.org. Part of the above series The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War. 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 Post Office of India in the Great War, above.
• The Royal Naval Division by Douglas Jerrold 1923. Includes the Western Front. National Library of Australia.

Page 161 Georgian Adventure The Autobiography of Douglas Jerrold 1937 Archive.org

The RND transferred from the authority of the Admiralty to the War Office on 29 April 1916.

• 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, and chapters on the Royal Marine Artillery.
• 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.

• A General's letters to his son on obtaining his Commission [by "X. Y. Z."] 1918 Archive.org

A General's letters to his son on Minor Tactics [by "X. Y. Z."] 1918 Archive.org. The author is a “Senior General Officer of wide experience, who is on the active list”.

• Treatise On Ammunition, 10th Edition 1915 War Office HMSO Archive.org
• Hand Grenades: a Handbook on Rifle and Hand Grenades by Major Graham M Ainslie 1917 Archive.org
• The Service Revolver and How to Use It by Charles D. Tracy, The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1918. Link to a pdf download (free) lulu.com. (More details.). Archive.org version, possibly/probably the same file. Tracy was also the author of Revolver Shooting in War. Tracy is mentioned in The Pistol in British Military Service during the Great War by David Thomas 2010 Dissertation University of Birmingham. worldwar1.com.
• 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, where pages are rotatable. Archive.org version.
• The Pill-boxes of Flanders by Col. E. G. L. Thurlow 1933. "The Great War Archive", a part of The First World War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford. The pages of this short book have been listed out of order. To read in book order, select the following document pages 26, 11, 15 (Title page); 27, 23 Contents; 13, 2, 18, 4, 14, 24, 16, 3, 17, 25, 7, 19, 8, 21, 28, 1, 12, 5, 22, 9, 6, 10, 20. This book was reprinted in edition No 9, c 1986 of the magazine Gun Fire, all of which have been digitised and are available in the members' area of the Western Front Association (WFA).
• The Poison War by A A Roberts 1915 Archive.org

Old Chemical Weapons Reference Guide: May 1998. American Chemical Munitions USA Army publication. Includes WW1 information. bulletpicker.com

Seeking Victory on the Western Front : the British Army and Chemical Warfare in World War I by Albert Palazzo. Catalogued 2003, originally published 2000. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

The British Gas Units were part of the Royal Engineers, see Engineers, below.

• 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 Men I Killed by Brigadier General F P Crozier 1937, see Infantry and others, below.

For the Sake of Example : Capital Courts-Martial, 1914-1920 by Anthony Babington 1983 Archive.org Lending Library. Executions in the British Army.

• Death's Men : Soldiers of the Great War by Denis Winter 1979, first published 1978. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. "...Using written and oral reminiscences, he [Winter] builds up a comprehensive picture of the life of an ordinary soldier in and out of the line…"
• Trench Warfare, 1914-18 : the live and let live system by Tony Ashworth 2000 reprint edition, first published 1980. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• British Butchers and Bunglers of World War One by John Laffin 1988. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Armour against Fate : British Military Intelligence in the First World War by Michael Occleshaw 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Facing Armageddon : the First World War Experienced edited by Hugh Cecil and Peter H Liddle. 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Chapters by many different authors.
• Mud, Blood and Poppycock : Britain and the First World War by Gordon Corrigan 2003. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Corrigan was also the author of Sepoys in the Trenches, see Recommended reading, above.
• The Great War : perspectives on the First World War edited by Robert Cowley 2003. Thirty articles by different authors. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• Boy Soldiers of the Great War by Richard Van Emden 2005. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.

The Soldier's War: The Great War through Veterans’ Eyes by Richard Van Emden 2010, first published 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

Meeting the Enemy : the Human Face of the Great War by Richard Van Emden 2013. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

• Chapter 1 only: pages 7-37 Shooting The Front: Allied Aerial Reconnaissance And Photographic Interpretation On The Western Front — World War I by Colonel Terrence J Finnegan catalogued 2007, first published 2006. Archive.org. Also published in later editions under slightly different titles.
• Warfare and armed conflicts : a statistical encyclopedia of casualty and other figures, 1494-2007 by Michael Clodfelter 2008. 3rd edition updated and heavily revised Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. (A 4th edition, to 2015, was published 2017). Includes WW1.
• A genius for deception : how cunning helped the British win two world wars by Nicholas Rankin 2009. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. First published in Great Britain as Churchill's Wizards : the British genius for deception, 1914-1945 in 2008.
• The Sad Adventures of Big and Little Willie, during the First Six Months of the Great War, August 1914--January 1915 by W K Haselden (William Kerridge) 1915 . Satirical caricature cartoons of the German Kaiser Wilhelm and his son, The Crown Prince. Link to a pdf download, STOU Digital Repository Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University, Thailand.
• Raemaekers' Cartoon History of the War in three volumes. 1918 Archive.org. Louis Raemaekers was a Dutch cartoonist, whose influential work was first published in the Amsterdam Telegraaf.
• Punch: Vol. CLIII July- December 1917. Archive.org

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.
• Injuries and Diseases of War : a Manual based on experience of the present campaign in France. January 1918. 40 Misc. 2051 His Majesty's Stationery Office 1918. A Manual for RAMC personnel. UNSW Library (Sydney) Digital Collection.
• 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.
• The Tale of a Casualty Clearing Station by a Royal Field Leech. Pseud. of Col. F.A. Symons [Frank Albert] 1917 HathiTrust Digital Library. Salisbury Cathedral Roll of Honour : Colonel F. A. Symons, Royal Army Medical Corps died 30th April,1917 Age 48. wiltshire-opc.org.uk
• 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.
• A Medico's Luck in the War : being reminiscences of R.A.M.C. work with the 51st (Highland) Division by David Rorie, Colonel, late RAMC, T A (Ret) 1929 Archive.org.
• Memoirs Of A Camp Follower (1934) by Philip Gosse. Archive.org mirror version from Digital Library of India. 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.
• On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division by Geoffrey Sparrow MC, and J N MacBean Ross MC, Surgeons RN 1918 Archive.org. The Division was under the authority of the Admiralty until 29 April 1916. Includes the Antwerp Expedition in October 1914, and France from June 1916.

"With a Royal Marine Battalion in France" by Temporary Surgeon J N MacBean Ross, Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry. Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service, Vol 3 1917, page 465. Commentary on “With a Royal Marine Battalion in France” Surg Lt Cdr JG Penn-Barwell J Royal Naval Medical Service 2014, Vol 100.2

• 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
• An Equal Burden: The Men of the Royal Army Medical Corps in the First World War by Jessica Meyer 2019. Google Books version, Open Access oapen.org version.
• 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, also see the Great War Forum topic "Online books-accounts by nurses etc", with some overlap, some of whom are discussed in Nurse Writers of the Great War by Christine E Hallett 2016. oapen.org
• "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

"The Two Madonnas of Pervyse" YouTube video. Also see Fiction below, for a book where there is a representation of these two women, but not as the main character.

• S. S. A. 10. Notes on the work of a British Volunteer Ambulance Convoy with the 2nd French Army (of Verdun) by William St. Q Leng. 1918 Archive.org. S. S. A. = La Section Sanitaire Anglaise.
• 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.
• Shadow-shapes : the journal of a wounded woman, October 1918-May 1919 by Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant 1920 Archive.org. The author was an American journalist, who was accidentally injured by a previously unexploded hand grenade.
• 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 Major-General Sir Frederick Smith , formerly Director-General Army Veterinary Service 1927 Archive.org. WW1 period from page 234.
• 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.

Collected stories

• Thrilling stories of the Great War on land and sea, in the air, under the water by Logan Marshall 1915 Archive.org
• Soldiers' Stories of the War edited by Walter Wood 1915 Archive.org

In the Line of Battle: Soldiers' Stories of the War edited by Walter Wood 1916 Archive.org

• True Stories of the Great War. Tales of Adventure-Heroic Deeds-Exploits Told by the Soldiers, Officers, Nurses, Diplomats, Eye Witnesses. Edited by Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917. In six volumes: Volume I, Vol. II, Vol. III, Vol. IV, Vol. V, Vol. VI. All Archive.org
• 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. Originally published in 1916 in fortnightly editions, then published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages in total, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents advises 56 VCs are covered. Contain many specially commissioned illustrations- some samples. YouTube video about the books and their illustrations.

Transcribed editions by OCR, (optical character recognition) so subject to inaccuracies and without the original illustrations: Volume I, Volume II of the two volume set. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Although some pages are acceptable, many are not, but they give an indication of the content of the book.

Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01000891226 and in a reprint edition, which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as British WWI Stories of Heroism (located in International/scroll to letter B).

• Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring edited by Elwyn A Barron 1920 Archive.org
• 500 of the Best Cockney War Stories Reprinted from the London Evening News. 1920 Archive.org
• Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Accounts were submitted after a request by the editor of Everyman magazine. Later reprinted under the title True World War I Stories 1999. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

A number of the accounts have been transcribed on Memoirs & Diaries firstworldwar.com including "The First Gas Attack" by Anthony R. Hossack, Queen Victoria Rifles [9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment]. To locate other entries, either scroll through all entries in the Memoirs & Diaries category or use your Search engine, with terms "Everyman at War" firstworldwar.com/diaries . Available HathiTrust Digital Library for those with University Library access. Also available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see Subscription websites - First World War databases for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book". The British Library is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.

• War Letters of Fallen Englishmen edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org
• The Great War…I Was There! Undying Memories of 1914-1918 (a description greatwardifferent.com, archived) edited by Sir John Hammerton originally published in 51 weekly parts 1938-39, (first appearing around the 20th anniversary of the end of the war), and also published in a three volume edition, 2020 pages (v. 1. August 4, 1914, to July 1, 1916; v. 2. July 4, 1916, to October 22, 1917; v. 3. Oct. 1917 to Jan. 1919 (Amalgamated Press)), the latter available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001581634 . There was also a four volume reprint by Waverley.

The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website findmypast, titled Britain, The Great War, I Was There located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in image order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.

Some of the weekly issues (Parts 1-41, (for the period to 23 April 1918) and Part 46 (Sept-Oct 1918) are available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see Subscription websites - First World War databases for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book" and it appears in five separate listings, the editions to Part 41 in four listings and Part 46 as a separate listing. The British Library is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.

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.
• War flying, by a pilot; the letters of "Theta" to his home people written in training and war 1917 Archive.org. He was a member of the Royal Flying Corps.
• 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
• Heroic Airmen and their Exploits by E W Walters 1917 Archive.org
• Winged Warfare : Hunting the Huns in the Air by Major [William Avery] Bishop,VC, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. London edition 1918, probably better filmed text ; USA edition 1918, better photographs, some photographs differ between the two editions;

1981 edition of 1967 reprint with additional material ; 2002 edition with additional material the latter two Archive.org Lending Library.

Billy Bishop, VC by William D Mathieson 1989 Archive.org Lending Library.

Billy Bishop Wikipedia . He was the top Canadian ace of the war.

• Short Flights With the Cloud Cavalry by "Spin" [1918] Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated the author was Lieutenant G. E. Thomson, the Records Officer of 46 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps , who dedicated the book to his Commanding Officer, Philip Babington, ("Pip Beer" on the Dedication Page).
• 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.
• Outwitting the Hun : my Escape from a German Prison Camp by Lieut. Pat O'Brien, Royal Flying Corps. 1918 Archive.org. LibriVox audio version Archive.org. The author was an American who had initially joined a group training in Canada as Royal Flying Corps officers.
• The American Spirit; Letters of Briggs Kilburn Adams, Lieutenant of the Royal Flying Corps 1918 Archive.org. Most of the letters cover his time in training, in Canada from August 1917, and England from January 1918. He arrived in France 1 March 1918 and died soon afterwards 14 March 1918.
• 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
  • Flying for France, with the American Escadrille at Verdun by James R McConnell. 1917 Archive.org. Librivox audio recording. Archive.org. McConnell had first volunteered for Ambulance service in France in 1915. He subsequently died when he was shot down on March 19, 1917 James Rogers McConnell Wikipedia.
  • Norman Prince, a volunteer who died for the cause he loved 1917 Archive.org. An American, he was part of the Lafayette Flying Squadron.
  • 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. 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.

The Red Knight of Germany : the story of Baron von Richthofen, Germany's great war bird by Floyd Gibbons. 1959 “new illustrated abridgement”, first published 1927. Elsewhere the author is stated to have been war correspondent with the Chicago Tribune. Archive.org Lending Library.

Richthofen, the Red Knight of the Air by Claud Sykes (Vigilant) 2004 reprint edition, first published 1934. Archive.org Lending Library. As a reprint, part of the series Fortunes of War.

Who killed the Red Baron? by P J Carisella and James W Ryan. 1969. 1979 reprint. Both editions Archive.org Lending Library.

The Day the Red Baron Died by Dale M Titler 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library

The Red Baron by Nicholas Wright 1977 Archive.org Lending Library. “Written especially for young readers”.

Richthofen : beyond the legend of the Red Baron by Peter Kilduff 1994, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library.

• "Green Balls," the Adventures of a Night-Bomber by Paul Bewsher 1919 Archive.org

The Bombing of Bruges by Paul Bewsher, Captain, RAF 1918 Archive.org. A collection of short poems reprinted in part from the Graphic and the Weekly Dispatch.

• Night Bombing with the Bedouins by Robert H Reece Lieut RAF 1919. Archive.org. The Bedouin Squadron, so called because as a unit it was constantly moved from place to place, was formed in September 1917 as part of the Royal Flying Corps.
• Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps, by James Thomas Byford McCudden [1919]. HathiTrust Digital Library, available in areas such as North America. There was a 1930 reprint under the title Flying Fury and still later reprints as Flying Fury: Five Years in the Royal Flying Corps.
• Fighting the Flying Circus by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. LibriVox audio recording Archive.org
• New England Aviators 1914-1918; their portraits and their records edited by Caroline Ticknor. Volume I 1919, Volume II 1920 Archive.org
• R.F.C. H.Q., 1914-1918 by Maurice Baring 1920 Archive.org. Baring was appointed as a Lieutenant in the Intelligence Corps attached to the Headquarters RFC, after applying unsuccessfully to go to France as an interpreter, as he spoke seven modern languages.
• An Explorer in the Air Service by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org
• War Birds : Diary of an Unknown Aviator Illustrated by Clayton Knight. 1926 Archive.org. The author was Elliott White Springs who edited a short diary by "Unknown Aviator" John MacGavock Grider, and wrote the rest of the content. Elliott White Springs Wikipedia. They were both part of a group of Americans who trained in Britain, and joined the Royal Flying Corps.
• Page 174 A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see Infantry and others, above.
• No Parachute: a Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A. S. G. Lee, Sherwood Forresters, attached Royal Flying Corps by Arthur Stanley Gould Lee 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I by Stephen Longstreet 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.
• Warplanes & Air Battles of World War I edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in Purnell’s History of the First World War, this publication being a well regarded series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
• Coningham: A Biography Of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC by Vincent Orange 1992, first published 1990. WW1 period commences page 13. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• In the Teeth of the Wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918 by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett, edited by his son Nick Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service. Catalogue entry states "Revised edition of: Bomber pilot, 1916-1918. London : Ian Allan Ltd., 1974", the latter edited by Chaz Bowyer.
• 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.
• The Millionaire's Unit: the aristocratic flyboys who fought the Great War and invented America's airpower by Marc Wortman 2006. Archive.org Lending Library.
• Flight International Magazine Collection at Archive.org, which is Searchable as a Collection. Flight editions from 1909 including WW1 period. Contain pages relating to "Service Aviation".
• Also see Prisoners of War and Fiction, below.

Army Service Corps and others

• 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.
• Trucking to the Trenches; Letters from France, June-November 1917 by John Iden Kautz 1918 Archive.org. An American, he volunteered with a group of American University volunteers to drive ambulances, but drove instead munition transport trucks, officially part of the French Army. The service was eventually taken over by the American Army, and he transferred to the Quartermaster Corps (transport division). This book also appears on the American Field Service/Library website, now archived, under the heading "Réserve Mallet truck transport units", more details, archived.

History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917, told by its members. With illustrations. Vol. III Contains “The Camion Section” Archive.org

Camion letters from American college men. Volunteer Drivers of the American Field Service in France 1917, edited by Martin W Sampson, 1918. Archive.org. Most of the letters are from Cornell men.

A Stop at Suzanne's: And Lower Flights by Greayer Clover 1919. Archive.org. Note poor quality scanning and missing pages at least 24-43, but see Transcribed version, (ourstory.info, now archived). Includes Clover's time as a Camion driver. He subsequently joined the aviation service (AEF) and died in a flying accident 30 August 1918.

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 [pseudonym of 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. He was in a Brigade Ammunition Column, believed to be 3rd Division.
• 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.
• A College Man in Khaki. Letters of an American in the British Artillery by Wainwright Merrill 1918 Archive.org. He enlisted as Arthur A Stanley as a gunner in the Canadian Field Artillery, and was killed in November 6, 1917 at Ypres.
• 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.
• The Boy with the Guns by the late Lieut. George W Taylor, Royal Field Artillery, 1919. Archive.org. A book in the On Active Service series. Western Front and Serbia.
• The Grey Wave by Major A. Hamilton Gibbs 1920. American title Gun fodder; the diary of four years of war 1919. Both Archive.org. He was on the Western Front in two roles, initially as a trooper, 9th Lancers, and latterly as an officer, later Battery Commander, Royal Field Artillery from page 123. In between he was with 67 Artillery Brigade, in Egypt and Salonika. A. Hamilton Gibbs (Wikipedia), novelist.
• From the Somme to the Rhine by S Ashmead-Bartlett. Dust jacket/book cover has additional wording An Intelligence Officer's narrative of the last phase of the Great War . [1921] Archive.org. A book in the On Active Service series. Elsewhere it is stated he was Major Herbert Seabury Hunt Ashmead-Bartlett (known as Seabury) 173 Infantry Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The author’s war diary for The Battle of Ypres May 1915. He appears to be a brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the war correspondent, and had himself briefly worked as a journalist. In 1922, as a condition for an inheritance, he changed his surname to Burdett-Coutts.
• 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)
• A Canadian's Road to Russia : Letters from the Great War Decade by Stuart Ramsay Tompkins 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was initially in France with Calgary’s 31st Battalion, Canadian Second Division, (infantry) then transferred to the 6th Canadian Brigade Trench Mortar Battery. He subsequently joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Siberia, arriving in Vladivostok January 1919. He later became a university professor specialising in Russian history.
• The Royal Marine Artillery was part of the Royal Marines. For chapters in a history, see Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general, above.
• 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.
• Volumes, from 1911, of The Field Artillery Journal published by The United States Field Artillery Association, are available on the website of Fires (then click on the tab Archives) published by the US Army Field Artillery. sill-www.army.mil Fort Sill, Oklahoma USA.
• Artillery Firing (reprint of pamphlet translated by American Expeditionary Forces, France) by War Plans Division, [US] General Staff June 1918. Archive.org.
• Available on HathiTust Digital Library, University access only. Salute of Guns by Donald Boyd 1930. The Ebb and Flow of Battle by P. J. Campbell 1977; In the Cannon's Mouth by P. J. Campbell 1979 (146 pages) . There was also an edition with the latter title published containing both volumes (317 pages).

Cavalry

• "The Cavalry Action at Moy, France on August 26th, 1914" [5th Cavalry Brigade] by W J Cranston from page 13, Royal Scots Greys' Association Report, 1947 . ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk.
• The First Seven Divisions : being a detailed account of the fighting from Mons to Ypres by Ernest W Hamilton (Late Captain 11th Hussars) 1916 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. Also see his book above under Official Histories and Battles.
• The Squadroon by Ardern Beaman 1920 Archive.org. "Beaman, a regular officer of the 1st Cavalry, Indian Army, who won the DSO on the North- West Frontier in 1915, joined the 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars as a combatant officer early in October 1917. He was present with the regiment at Cambrai & the regimental history records in detail his command of a ‘composite squadron’ in March 1918 & later “C” Squadron at Amiens &c. For reasons unknown he chose to present this Western Front ‘memoir’ from the point of view of the regimental chaplain".
• With the Cavalry in the West by "Aquila" [J D Delius] 1922 Archive.org
• 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
• Sport in Peace and War by Anthony Buxton 1920. Non military account. Anthony Buxton Wikipedia, which says he was a Major in the Essex Yeomanry.
• 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 14, 1924. Index of articles up to Volume 23 (Source.) Volumes 1-9 1906-1914; Volumes 10-23 1920-1933.

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.

• "France" page 160 Letters of Oswin Creighton, C.F., 1883-1918 edited by Louise Creighton 1920 Archive.org
• 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
• From Cloister to Camp : being reminiscences of a priest in France, 1915-1918 by Fr Dominic Devas OFM. 1919 Archive.org. He was a Franciscan and RC Chaplain , British Army. He was initially attached to the 1/1 South Midland Field Ambulance

Despatch Riders

• Adventures of a Despatch Rider. Blackwood’s Magazine Nos 197 and 198, May 1915 - September 1915. Pages 577-612, pages 842- 859, pages 113-138, pages 247-271, pages 389-397 Archive.org

Later in 1915 published as Adventures of a Despatch Rider by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org. However, some of the text differs between that published in Blackwood’s Magazine. Also published in 1917 in an edition edited for censorship reasons.

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

Engineers

• Fighting the Boche Underground by H. D. Trounce, "formerly of the Royal British Engineers, now Captain of Engineers, USA". 1918 Archive.org. Gutenberg.org version, with photographs correctly rotated. The author, born in Britain, became a civil and mining engineer in the USA and had become a USA citizen. An account of his time in the Royal Engineers from late 1915 to July 1917.
• The Riddle of the Rhine, Chemical Strategy in Peace and War by Victor Lefebure, originally published 1921. Archive.org. Commissioned into the 3rd Essex Regiment, he was transferred to the Special Brigade, RE, where he was a Company Commander. In 1917 he was appointed British Chemical Warfare Liaison Officer with the French.
• "Gas!" The Story of the Special Brigade by Maj-Gen C.H Foulkes 1934 is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in International/Military Books/Britain (scroll to letter G)

Chemical Soldiers : British Gas Warfare in World War I by Donald Richter 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The role of the British Special Brigade.

• A Soldier's Diary by Ralph Scott [George Scott Atkinson, Royal Engineers] 1923. Archive.org. Sapper officer’s day-to-day diary with 2nd Army in the Ypres Salient, April- Nov. 1918.
• 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
• Tunnellers: The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World War by W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman 1936 is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, located in International/Military Books/Britain (scroll to Tu).
• Sapper Martin : the Secret Great War Diary of Jack Martin edited and introduced by Richard van Emden 2010, first published 2009. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. Martin served with the 122nd Infantry Brigade Signal Company, part of the 41st Division. Diary entries from September 1916.

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.

• "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 Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill 1916. London edition, USA edition The initial chapters differ, although the chapter title is the same. The author served with the London Irish Rifles, Rifleman No. 3008. 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.

The Great Push : an Episode of the Great War by Patrick MacGill, 1917 Archive.org.

• 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.

• Student and Sniper-Sergeant, a Memoir of J. K. Forbes by William Taylor and Peter Diack. 1916 Archive.org, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. Forbes was in the 4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders and killed in action 25 September 1915.
• 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.

• 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.
• Twenty-two Months Under Fire by Henry Page Croft 1917 Archive.org. The author belonged to 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment.
• One Young Man; the simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western Front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk edited by J E Hodder-Williams 1917 Archive.org. Later edition Archive.org which advises the young man was Reginald Davis, thought to be in D Company, 1/9th London Regiment (QVR (Queen Victoria's Rifles)), a London territorial regiment.
• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• 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)
• 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."
• Letters to his Wife by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org. He was a novelist commissioned in 5th (SR) Bn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 3rd Bn. in France 1915-16; wounded on the Somme; then with 12th (Service) Bn. 1917 & DoW post-Arras, 9/4/17.
• The Note-book of an Intelligence Officer by Eric Fisher Wood 1917 Archive.org. An American, with high level contacts, he became a major in the British Army (63rd (Royal Naval) Division [Infantry] attached GHQ ID (ID=Naval Intelligence Division)) having been commissioned as a Lieutenant-Commander. Some of the book relates to his time in France from February 1917, Page 143, up until 9 April 1917, when he was wounded at the Battle of Arras. Some of the book is of a more general nature, including interviews, and the Clothing and other requirements for an officer page 202. By the time of book publication later in 1917 he was in the USA Army in USA. Eric Fisher Wood Wikipedia. Also see Volunteers and others, below for an earlier book.
• "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".
• When the Somme Ran Red by A Radclyffe Dugmore. Temp. Captain King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry 1918. Archive.org. Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore Wikipedia. Prior to his commission, he was in Belgium at the time of the German advance as a civilian photographer.
• Iron Times with the Guards by An "O. E." ["O. E." Old Etonian; Geoffrey Philip Agnew Fildes, 2nd Coldstream Guards] 1918 Archive.org
• "Ladies from Hell" by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish. "Published in the USA during the War, the purpose for writing was primarily to sway American opinion towards the Allied cause and not as a record of events".
• 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 (pseudonym of Geoffrey Manwaring Brown) 1918 Archive.org.
• Over there and back in three uniforms, being the experiences of an American boy in the Canadian, British and American armies at the front and through No man's land by Joseph Shuter Smith 1918 Archive.org
• 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. The contents were "chosen by the philosopher Cyril Joad who also wrote the preface … Joad was a pacifist and conscientious objector and uses his preface to promote his own notions about the futility of war. It has been alleged that Joad was highly selective regarding his choice of West’s writings".
• On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division published 1918. See Medical Services above.
• The Diary of a German Soldier by Feldwebel C… , published in French in 1918. See German Army below.
• Adventures in Propaganda; Letters from an Intelligence Officer in France by Heber Blankenhorn, Captain, Military Intelligence Division, USA. 1919. Contains letters from July 1918. Archive.org.
• A Private in the Guards by Stephen Graham 1919 Archive.org. Stephen Graham (author) Wikipedia. Also see a further book under Miscellaneous below.
• Scouting Thrills by Captain G B McKean, VC, MC, MM 14th Battalion Canadian Infantry 1919 Archive.org. The Battalion scouts were generally part of the Intelligence section, along with observers and snipers. Pages 8-9 state the book is primarily written for boys. George Burdon McKean Wikipedia.
• 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.
• 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".
• Q. 6. A and Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917, and 1918 by Francis Buckley 1920. Gutenberg.org. Archive.org version He was a subaltern, from Jan. 1916 onwards, and later company commander, 1st/7th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
• 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.
• The Confessions of a Private by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. HathiTrust Digital Library.
• The Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger. First published in German 1920. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs". See German Army.
• 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.
• Letters from a Liaison Officer 1918-1919 by Clarence Van Schaick Mitchell, Captain, US Cavalry 1920 Archive.org. A volunteer ambulance driver in France 1914 who then completed a law degree at Harvard, he was commissioned in August 1917 and was assigned as a Liaison Officer on the staff of Gen. de Castelanau, French Army.
• Page 48 The War Diary of a Square Peg. With a Dictionary of War Words by Maximilian A Mügge. 1920 Archive.org. Although the author was a British citizen and had volunteered, as an "enemy alien Briton", he was transferred to a non-combatant corps (N C C ) where conscientious objectors were usually sent, with which he served in France for a few months late May-August 1916. The NCCs were not well regarded. He was soon transferred again to an Infantry Works Battalion in England which he calls "a political concentration camp".
• Combed Out by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. Frederick Augustus Voigt Wikipedia.
• Reminiscences of a Grenadier, 1914-1919 by E R M Fryer 1921 Archive.org. He initially was a private in the H. A.C., then went to Cadet School and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.
• An Onlooker in France 1917-1919 by Sir William Orpen 1921 Archive.org. At this time he was an official War Artist William Orpen Wikipedia. He had been commissioned into the Army Service Corps in 1916, and as a war artist he was officially working for the Department of Information.
• The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. Includes Western Front and India, Egypt/Palestine.
• Toward the Flame: a War Diary by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. Rated "#6 Best WWI Memoir" by Edward Lengel. 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".

He had previously written War and the creative impulse by Max Plowman; with preface by Henry W. Nevinson. 1919 HathiTrust Digital Library. Max Plowman (Wikipedia), actual name Mark.

• A Subaltern’s War by Charles Edmonds (pseud.) [Charles Edmund Carrington] 1929 Archive.org. Full title A Subaltern’s War being a memoir of the Great War from the point of view of a romantic young man, with candid accounts of two particular battles, written shortly after they occurred, and an essay on militarism. The Preface advises most of the book was written in 1919 and 1920. Carrington was a Lieutenant in the 1/5th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Rated "#8 Best World War I Memoir" by Edward Lengel. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs". Charles Carrington (historian) Wikipedia. Carrington was also the author of Soldier From The Wars Returning 1965, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008268973
• The Weary Road : Recollections of a Subaltern of Infantry by Charles Douie 1988, first published 1929. Archive.org Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs". In August 1914 he joined “a Territorial unit of the 51st Highland Division”. He was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 7th (Service) Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment (9 January 1915) and subsequently transferred to the 1/Dorsets, joining them in France 15 February 1916.
• A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell according to a page from henrywilliamson.co.uk. Bell was with different battalions of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, and then joined the Royal Flying Corps.
• Undertones of War by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org. Subaltern in Royal Sussex at the Somme & Passchendaele. Rated #4 of the top ten personal accounts by Edward Lengel. 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, (more details .) Robert Graves Wikipedia.

Robert Graves: the Assault Heroic, 1895-1926 by Richard Perceval Graves [nephew] 1987 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

• 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 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. Biographical details, including obituary theauxiliaries.com. For a book about Crozier's early Army experiences in West Africa 1901-5, see East Africa.

• A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Contains a Preface by the author written specifically for the 1966 edition, setting out his reasons for writing the book. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".

A Kind of Survivor : the Autobiography of Guy Chapman 1975 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

• Twelve Days by Sidney Rogerson with a foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart, and eight drawings by Stanley Cursiter. 1933. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. "It deals with the “fag-end” of the Battles of the Somme in 1916". Subsequently reprinted under the title Twelve Days on the Somme : a Memoir of the Trenches, 1916. The reprint description states Rogerson was in 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, B Company. Reprint review researchgate.net. He was also the author of The Last of the Ebb (1937), reprinted as The Last of the Ebb : the Battle of the Aisne, 1918.
• 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.
• There and Back: The Story of an Australian Soldier 1915-35 by Edward Lording, writing as A. Tiveychoc 1935. Chapter 11 onwards details his time in France, part of 30th Battalion, AIF. He was severely wounded at Fromelles, aged just 17, and spent years in hospital. Project Gutenberg Australia.
• "And on to Messines" by Capt G D Mitchell 10th and 48th Battns AIF, page 6, (digital page 8) Reveille, July 1, 1936 (commenced in June 1936 issue). nla.gov.au. He was commissioned as an officer, in the field, with a group of other NCOs. Reveille was published by The Returned Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch. Mitchell also wrote "The Winter of 1916-17" a series of articles appearing in Reveille commencing December 1934, page 15 (digital 17) and continuing each month to at least October 1935, previously online, but not currently so. 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. Mitchell was the author of Backs to the Wall 1937, published in a 2007 reprint edition as Backs to the Wall: A larrikin on the Western Front.
• "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.

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

• American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918 by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.
• Sky: Memoirs by Blaise Cendrars [pseudonym], translated by Nina Rootes 1992, originally published in French as Le Lotissement du ciel 1949. 2nd file Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A volume in the author’s war memoirs tetralogy, which includes WW1 chapters. Swiss born, during WWI he joined the French Foreign Legion and served in France, where he lost an arm. "The hazy world of Blaise Cendrars" by Lee Rourke 23 July 2007 The Guardian. "Cendrars eschews biographical detail and morphs fact and fiction". The other volumes in the tetralogy are Astonished Man (L 'Homme foudroyé, 1945), Lice (La main coupée, 1946), Planus (Bourlinguer, 1948). Blaise Cendrars Wikipedia.
• Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis Wikipedia. During WW1, he was in the Irish Guards, initially Lieutenant 1st Battalion, appointed Commander 2nd Irish Guards in October 1917, aged 25. For online biographies published 1952-1973, containing chapters on WW1, see Second World War - Historical books online and scroll down.
• "The Army in France 1918" Chapter Five, page 75 Old Men Forget: The Autobiography of Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich) 1954 Archive.org. He was an officer in the 3rd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, and served in France for six months. Duff Cooper Wikipedia. He became a British Conservative Party politician, diplomat and military and political historian.
• 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.
• The Memoirs of a Malayan Official by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. The initial four chapters are Purcell's account of his time as a young officer with the 11th (Service) Battalion of the Green Howards, including his time as a Prisoner of War.
• "The First World War" Chapter Three page 59 Winds of Change, 1914-1939 by Harold Macmillan 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Harold Macmillan (Wikipedia) later British Prime Minister. He was an officer of the Grenadier Guards in France.
• Ghosts have Warm Hands by Will R. Bird 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Rated "#5 Best WWI Memoir" by Edward Lengel. About 60% of this book consists of much of the content of the earlier publication And We Go On, published 1930, reprinted 2014. Sometimes classified as fiction, but based on Bird's diaries. Bird served with the 42nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada (Black Watch), composed largely of men from Ontario and the Maritimes. Will R. Bird , a Canadian who became an author.
• A Life Apart by Alan Thomas 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Alan Ernest Wentworth Thomas served with the 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Elsewhere it is stated he had a varied career, including as a barrister, editor for nineteen years, between 1939 and 1957, of The Listener, and as an author.
• A Victorian Son: an Autobiography, 1897-1922 by Stuart Cloete 1973. WW1 period commences page 181. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Stuart Cloete (Wikipedia) says he was commissioned into the 9th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, before later transferring to the Coldstream Guards. He later lived in South Africa and became a novelist.
• "Fifteen rounds a minute" : the Grenadiers at war, August to December 1914 Edited from the diaries and letters of Major 'Ma' Jeffries and others by J M Craster 1976. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
• Another World, 1897-1917 by Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon 1977. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Eden served with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC). Anthony Eden Wikipedia.
• Cannon Fodder : An Infantryman's Life on the Western Front, 1914-18 by A Stuart Dolden 1980 Archive.org Lending Library. “Dolden was a solicitor who enlisted as a Private soldier …an excellent account of the life of an enlisted man, sometime bomber, sometime cook in D Company, 1st/14th London Regiment …a must read for those who want to know “what it was like”.”
• Some Desperate Glory : the World War I Diary of a British Officer, 1917 by Edwin Campion Vaughan 1988, first published 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author appears to have been Second Lieutenant, Warwickshire Regiment.
• Somme Mud : the experiences of an infantryman in France, 1916-1919 by E P F Lynch (Edward), edited by Will Davies. Published 2008, written in 1921. Lynch was in the Australian Imperial Force. The "Foreword" says "This book compares with All Quiet on the Western Front...". “A memoir built on a wartime diary and a unit history” in the form of a novel, and considered to be such by some, although the book details state "This book is a work of non-fiction". Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also by the editor: In the footsteps of Private Lynch by Will Davies 2010, which is available at the British Library UIN: BLL01018531666 . Edward Francis Lynch Wikipedia.
• To Fight Alongside Friends : the First World War Diaries of Charlie May edited by Gerry Harrison 2014. Captain Charlie May was killed, aged 27, on 1 July 1916, leading the men of 'B Company', 22nd Manchester Service Battalion (the Manchester Pals) into action on the first day of the Somme. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
• For a record of the "Sea Soldiers" of The Royal Marines, see Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general, above.

Machine Guns

• The Shilling Soldiers by Denis Garstin [1918]. Archive.org. The author served with the 10th Hussars Machine Gun Squadron 1915-1916, and biographical details may be found in the Preface. He subsequently was killed in action in August 1918 in Russia. Captain Denis Norman Garstin bonhams.com.
• "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. Also published in the UK with the title From the Fire Step: the experiences of an American soldier in the British Army. 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.
• Letters and Papers of Algernon Hyde Villiers with a memoir by Harry Graham 1919 Archive.org. He had been a trooper in Egypt with the Hertfordshire Yeomanry 1914, was commissioned into the Lothian & Borders Horse 1915, before transferring to the Machine Gun Corps; went to France from July 1917 where he was Killed in Action on 23rd November 1917 at Bourlon Wood with the 121st Company.
• 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.
• A Machine Gunner's Notes France 1918 by Lieutenant Colonel Charles M DuPuy, U S Infantry 1920. He was Commanding Officer, 311th Machine Gun Battalion, USA Army. 314th.org/books
• 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 ...)

Also see Fiction, below.

• Suicide Battalions by Wendell Westover, Captain, 4th M. G. bn., A. E. F.; with 46 illustrations by Lucien Jonas... 1929 Archive.org. A series of sketches of American machine-gunners.
• 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
• Chapter 20 "The Western Front" page 105 Farewell to the Horses : A Diary of a British Tommy 1915-1919 [Cady Cyril Hoyte] edited by Robert Elverstone 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Hoyte spent a short time in France as part of the 100th Battalion Machine Gun Corps from July 1918, until he was demobilised January 1919.
• 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. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.

Secret Service and Spies

• The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org. Tuohy also wrote The Battle of Brains 1930, consisting of some true stories, some semi-fiction, about Secret Service/spies, much of which had appeared serially in the Graphic, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003689091 and also available HathiTrust Digital Library for those with University access. 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. Extracts from the latter book are included in Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas, available online, see below.
• 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.

Inquest on Mata Hari by Bernard Newman 1956. Archive.org

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.
• Fifty Amazing Secret Service Dramas c 1937? published by The Times of India. Archive.org

Volunteers, correspondents 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 Note-book of an Attaché; seven months in the war zone by Eric Fisher Wood 1915 Archive.org. Some of the images may be better in this 2nd version Archive.org. The author was studying in Paris at the outbreak of war, and became Attaché at the American Embassy in Paris under Ambassador Myron Herrick. The American Embassy became responsible for German subjects remaining in France. Includes a period when Wood volunteered as an ambulance driver. Eric Fisher Wood Wikipedia. Also see Infantry and others, above for a later book.
• Over the Threshold of War: Personal Experiences of the Great European Conflict by Nevil Monroe Hopkins 1918 Archive.org. Hopkins was an American engineer travelling in Europe, including Russia in 1914. He was in Paris at the outbreak of war and worked briefly for the American Embassy (also see account above) before he and his family and friends were evacuated to England on an American cruiser, although he subsequently briefly returned to Europe.
• My four years in Germany by James W Gerard, late [USA] Ambassador to the German Imperial Court. 1917 Archive.org. He arrived in Belin late 1913.
• From the Trenches : Louvain to the Aisne, the first record of an eye-witness by Geoffrey Winthrop Young 1914 Archive.org. Geoffrey Winthrop Young Wikipedia. Young was then working as a war correspondent for the Daily News.
• 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.

• First from the Front by Harold Ashton, War Correspondent of The Daily News [1914] Archive.org. Part of the book is about France.
• Fighting in Flanders by E. Alexander Powell, Special Correspondent of The New York World, with the Belgian Forces in the Field. 1915, first published 1914. Archive.org.

Vive la France! by E. Alexander Powell, War Correspondent of The New York World, the London Daily Mail, and Scribner’s Magazine, with the Allied Armies. 1915 Archive.org.

He was also the author of Slanting Lines of Steel [An account of the author's experiences as war correspondent in the European War, 1914-1918]. 1933

• With the Allies by Richard Harding Davis, War Correspondent, with the Allies, of the Wheeler Syndicate of Newspapers and the London Daily Chronicle. 1918, first published 1914. Archive.org. This edition is Volume I of The War on All Fronts, a five volume series, multiple authors.
• Paths of Glory: impressions of war written at and near the Front by Irvin S Cobb. Revised version, with two extra chapters. 1918 Archive.org. A series of first hand impressions originally written in 1914, and published 1915, while on staff service for the Saturday Evening Post. Irvin S. Cobb Wikipedia. Not to be confused with a novel with a similar title by Humphrey Cobb.
• A Woman's Experiences in the Great War by Louise Mack 1915 Archive.org. Louise Mack Wikipedia. An Australian, she was the first female War Correspondent and was in Belgium at the beginning of the war, working for British newspapers.
• Over There; War Scenes on the Western Front by Arnold Bennett 1915. Archive.org. Bennett lived in France from 1903-1911, and was the first established author to be invited to tour the front for propaganda purposes, spending three weeks in France and Belgium in June 1915 and publishing this account later in the year. He was appointed Director of Propaganda in the Ministry of Information in 1918.
• Fighting France : from Dunkerque to Belfort by Edith Wharton, 1918 edition, first published 1915. Archive.org. This edition is Volume III of The War on All Fronts, a five volume series, multiple authors. Edith Wharton Wikipedia. The American novelist was living in France at the outbreak of war.
• 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.

• Verdun to the Vosges : impressions of the war on the fortress frontier of France by Gerald Campbell, Special Correspondent of The Times in the East of France. 2nd Impression 1916. Archive.org
• With The New Army On The Somme. My Second Year of the War by Frederick Palmer, Accredited American Correspondent at the British Front. 1917 Archive.org
• With the British on the Somme by W Beach Thomas 1917 Archive.org William Beach Thomas war correspondent with the Daily Mail.
• 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 Official Histories and Battles above.
• War Pictures Behind the Lines by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work.
• At the War by Lord Northcliffe. New and enlarged edition 1917. 1916 edition both Archive.org. Published for the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross.
• A Hilltop on the Marne, being letters written June 3 - September 8, 1914 by Mildred Aldrich 19th Impression November 1917, first published October 1915.

On the Edge of the War Zone, from the battle of the Marne to the entrance of the Stars and Stripes by Mildred Aldrich 1917

The Peak of the Load; the waiting months on the hilltop from the entrance of the Stars and Stripes to the second victory on the Marne by Mildred Aldrich 1918.

When Johnny comes marching home by Mildred Aldrich 1919. All Archive.org.

Mildred Aldrich Wikipedia. American journalist and writer.

• Padre, a Red Cross Chaplain in France by Sartell Prentice 1919 Archive.org. An American, he worked at an American Army hospital.
• "War, Chapter I" page 1 Last Changes Last Chances by Henry W. Nevinson 1928 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the author was stated to be "the leading war correspondent of the Edwardian era." Also see Gallipoli. Henry Nevinson Wikipedia.
• 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 the war correspondent Henry W. Nevinson, see immediately above.
• 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.
• "In France" page 113 That Friend of Mine : a Memoir of Marguerite McArthur by Josephine Kellett 1920. Archive.org. In France, McArthur was with the YMCA, working with libraries and educational classes for soldiers, at Etaples, from March 1918 to February 1919 when she died of pneumonia following influenza. Although a civilian, she was given a military funeral. Earlier, she had worked for two years in the Intelligence Department of the War Office in the Translation Bureau, and had also done volunteer war work in England.
• 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.
• War Memories by Princess Marie de Croy 1932 Archive.org. A resident of Belgium, her house was turned into a hospital until the Germans took it over. In 1915 she was convicted by the Germans for sheltering Allied soldiers. Nurse Edith Cavell who was tried at the same time was shot for her part in these activities, however Princess Marie was sent to a civil prison in Germany which held criminals such as murderers and remained there until the war ended in 1918. Princess Marie of Croÿ Wikipedia.
• The Case of Edith Cavell: A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants by James M Beck [1915]. Reprinted from New York Times. Gutenberg.org

Edith Cavell: The Crime that Shook the World by S Theodore Felstead c 1940 Archive.org.

Books about Edith Cavell on Archive.org

• History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917, told by its members. With illustrations. 1920. Vol. I, but missing at least pages 8-9, Vol. I, 2nd file; Vol. II; Vol. III Contains “The Camion Section” and Appendices with Roll of Honor, Roster of Volunteers etc. All Archive.org

[American] Field Service/Library, now archived, contains transcribed accounts by American volunteers including some who drove ambulances and transport trucks. At least some of these volunteers/possibly all were formally part of the French Army. Introductory article, same website. Current website the-afs-archive.org, perhaps may have some of the accounts mentioned on the old website.

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.
• The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue) by H G Durnford (Hugh George Edmund) 1920 Archive.org. Images from the book Archive.org

Beyond the Tumult by Barry Winchester 1972. Additional wording on front cover: The true story of the greatest escape in the annals of wartime adventure. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Pilots from the Royal Flying Corps lead the escape from Holzminden.

• 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.

Restricted basis: British Library registered readers and/or staff: 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.

• 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".
• Prisoners of the Great War; Authoritative Statement of Conditions in the Prison Camps of Germany by Carl P Dennett, American Red Cross Deputy Commissioner to Switzerland. 1919 Archive.org.
• Tunnelling to freedom and other escape narratives from World War I 2004. Originally published as Escapers All: being the personal narratives of fifteen escapers from war-time prison camps, 1914-1918. 1932. The "Publishers’ Note" advises that all except two accounts were edited from a series of British Broadcasting Commission talks. Contents, page 19, page 20. Archive.org Book to Borrow/Lending Library.
• 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.
• 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 British 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 White Cross Touring Atlas of the Western Battlefields by The White Cross Insurance Association Ltd. 1920 Archive.org. Also contains an Index to the War Graves. The digital file consist of two actual pages to one digital page, so the one page viewing option is suggested. A digitised version of the Index to the War Graves was added 31 March 2020. It is available as four (4) separate PDF files (Original, Alphabetic, Numeric, Page Number) or as an EXCEL Worksheet with four (4) tabs. These links are located immediately under the book reader. All versions of the Index are searchable. (More details).
• 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.
• 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. Archive.org version, mirror from Digital Library of India. "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.
• "A Dictionary of War Words" Appendix II, pages 217-224 The War Diary of a Square Peg by Maximilian A Mügge 1920. Archive.org
• 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 Official Histories and Battles 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

• A War Minister and his Work; Reminiscences of 1914-1918 by General Von Stein, late Quartermaster-General and War Minister (1916-1918) c 1920 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.
• The Diary of a German Soldier by Feldwebel C… First Sergeant 88th Infantry 21st Division, 18th Army Corps. 1919. Translated from the original 1918 French edition Archive.org
• Memoir of German officer Ernst Jünger's experiences on the Western Front. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".. Rated "#3 Best WWI Memoir" by Edward Lengel. First published in 1920, there were many German revisions by the author later published. There have been two English translations, based on different German editions. The 2003 Hofmann translation is considered more literary, but Hofmann was ignorant of German military matters, whereas the 1929 translation by Creighton, who had served in the Great War, was more literal and is more accurate from a military point of view.

The Storm Of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front by Ernst Jünger, Lieutenant, 73rd Hanoverian Fusilier Regiment. Reprint of the 1929 translation [by Basil Creighton of the 1924 German edition]. Archive.org.

Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger. Translated by Michael Hofmann 2003, from the 1961 German edition. Archive.org Lending Library.

In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers by Ernst Jünger 1922. Gutenberg.org. German language.

Storm of Steel (Wikipedia).

• A Fatalist at War by Rudolf Georg Binding translated from the German by Ian F. D. Morrow. 1929 Archive.org. Original title Aus dem Kreige 1925.
• Kriegstagebücher indexpage Bibliography of German/Austrian war books, with some online links. Grensland-Docs (Dutch website, page in German with minimal English content).

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.
• My Rhineland Journal by Henry T. Allen, Major-General USA. 1923 Archive.org

• 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 the author of Occupied, 1918-1930; a postscript to the western front published 1931, available for those with University access, on HathiTrust Digital Library and at the British Library UIN: BLL01012161739 . 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.)
• An Ambassador of Peace ; pages from the diary of Viscount D'Abernon. (Berlin, 1920-1926) With historical notes by Maurice Alfred Gerothwohl. In three volumes
  • Vol. I From Spa (1920) to Rapallo (1922), published 1929. Archive.org; Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
  • Vol. II The Years of Crisis June 1922-December 1923, 1929. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
  • HathiTrust Digital Library including Vol.III The Years of Recovery January 1924- October 1926, 1930. Possibly not available in some regions such as North America.

Edgar Vincent, 1st Viscount D'Abernon Wikipedia. British Ambassador to Berlin. He was called "the pioneer of appeasement".

• 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

• The Novels of World War I : an Annotated Bibliography by Philip E Hager and Desmond Taylor 1981. Includes The twenty most significant novels of the Great War pages 5-6. Includes novels for both adults and juveniles. Archive.org Books To Borrow/Lending Library.
• "World War I books" [A Bibliography] from The Modern Novel.
• 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". Rated "#2 Best WWI Account" by Edward Lengel. 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.
• The four book Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford, published 1924-1928, consisting of Some do not... ; No More Parades; A Man Could Stand Up ; Last Post . First reprinted as Parade's End in 1950. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".

Some Do Not & No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford, reprint edition, first published 1924 and 1925. Archive.org. Volumes #1, #2, #3, #4 fadedpage.com

Parade’s End 1950 edition, 2001? edition Penguin Classics both Archive.org Lending Library

Parade's End: Radio audio adaptation Probably from the BBC.

"Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford" 25 August 2012. The Guardian. BBC/HBO five-part TV serial was made in 2012. Biography fordmadoxfordsociety.org. He was christened Ford Hermann Hueffer, and changed his name after the War. Ford joined the army in 1915, serving as an officer in the Welch Regiment.

• All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, translated from the German by A W Wheen. 1930 edition, first published 1929. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Other digital files, including Notes 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. German title Im Westen nichts Neues, 1929 first published 1928. 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. Also available 1997 reprint Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library. 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".
• Paths of Glory A Novel by Humphrey Cobb, 1987 edition, originally published 1935 . Archive.org Lending Library. With an Afterword by Stephen E Tabachnick. The story was suggested by actual events. A film version by Stanley Kubrick was produced in 1957. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".
• 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. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".
• 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

The Human Touch 1918, first published 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• The Happy Foreigner by Enid Bagnold 1920 Archive.org. “Set in the winter and spring following the Armistice, this fictionalized account of Bagnold's experience as a driver for the French Army remains a valuable record of haunted battlefields and scant army rations…”. Enid Bagnold Wikipedia. She was English, and became an author and playwright.
• 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. "The Spanish Farm, Sixty-four, Ninety-four! and The Crime of Vanderlynden's — were set in Flanders, mostly behind the lines, and were based on Mottram's own military experiences. They were published individually in the late 1920s and later issued together with additional material as The Spanish Farm Trilogy". Ralph Hale Mottram Wikipedia.
• The Somme, including also The Coward by A D Gristwood (Arthur Donald). With new introduction by Hugh Cecil. 2006. First published 1927. Archive.org Lending Library. Publisher's page The author was a “reluctant accountant turned even more reluctant infantryman in the London Rifle Brigade” ... "the war as Gristwood experienced it—a dark and desperate theater of pain where only base instincts could get a man out alive".
• Generals Die In Bed by Charles Yale Harrison 1930, first published 1928. canadiana.ca. 1928 edition, a transcription by Project Gutenberg Australia. 1930 edition, a transcription by Faded Page (Canada). Charles Yale Harrison (bac-lac.gc.ca) (1898-1954) was an 18-year-old student when he enlisted with the 244th (Kitchener’s Own) Battalion on January 24, 1917, in Montreal. He was wounded in August 1918. About the book englishworks.com.au."Charles Yale Harrison’s “Little-Known Minor Masterpiece”: Generals Die in Bed, Modernism, and the Canon of World War I Fiction" by Nils Clausson War, Literature & the Arts 23 (2011).
• Green Envelopes No author appears on the title page, however the author is identified as Colonel Lionel James, pre WW1 war correspondent and WW1 Commander of King Edward’s Horse. 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".
• The W Plan by Graham Seton 1930 Archive.org. Also see Machine Guns, above.
• Roads to Glory by Richard Aldington 1930. Archive.org Lending Library.
• We That Were Young : a Novel by Irene Rathbone, with a preface by E.M. Delafield ; and with a new introduction by Lynn Knight. 1989 reprint, first published 1932. Also reprinted in England in 1988 in the series Virago Modern Classics (no. 306). The author volunteered for war service, working at two YMCA camps in France and as a VAD in London. Her novel draws upon those experiences as well as upon those of a close friend who worked in a munitions factory. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
• In Parenthesis by David Jones 1937. Archive.org. David Jones (artist-poet) Wikipedia. “...a mixture of verse and prose-lines but the rich language establishes it as poetry”.
• A novel: Across The Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Previously available Digital Library of India (handle/2015/503004), possibly may become available in the future. 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
• Three Cheers for Me: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy Volume One by Donald Jack. Revised edition 1973, original version 1962.

It’s Me Again: The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy Volume Three by Donald Jack 1975. Both Archive.org Lending Library.

Volumes One and Three in the series The Bandy Papers, or The Journals of Bartholomew Bandy. A series of novels chronicling the exploits of a World War I fighter ace Bartholomew Wolfe Bandy. The Bandy Papers Wikipedia. “The books are noted for their humour and word play, as well as technical and historic accuracy.” Review of Volume Three, the final volume set in the WW1 period, Volume Two being That's Me in the Middle.

• 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. Believed to be based on the real-life Jodhpur Lancers (Indian States Forces).
• Regeneration Trilogy by Pat Barker. On a 2012 Guardian list of "The 10 best historical novels". "...the story of psychiatrist William Rivers and his pioneering treatment of various First World War soldiers - including Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen - for shell shock at the Craiglockhart war hospital near Edinburgh"

Regeneration by Pat Barker 1992. 2nd file

The Eye in the Door by Pat Barker 1994. 2nd file

The Ghost Road by Pat Barker 1995. 2nd file. All Archive.org Lending Library.

• Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks 1997, first published 1993. Archive.org Lending Library. Birdsong: Audio 2008 BBC Radio Drama. Archive.org.
• Songs from the Trenches by Capt. C W Blackall 1915 Archive.org. During the period when Charles Walter Blackall wrote these poems he was serving with the 1st Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers. He was KiA 24th March 1918.

"All's Well!" Some Helpful Verse For These Dark Days of War by John Oxenham, pseudonym of William Arthur Dunkerley. Eighteen edition, 1917, first published 1915. Archive.org

A Gloucestershire lad at home and abroad by F W Harvey. Fourth impression 1917, first published 1916. Gloucestershire friends: poems from a German prison camp by F W Harvey 1917. Both Archive.org. F. W. Harvey Wikipedia. His war memoir was Comrades in Captivity: a Record of Life in Seven German Prison Camps 1920, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001610788

Up the line to death: the war poets, 1914-1918 An anthology selected and arranged with an introduction and notes by Brian Gardner 1967 Archive.org Lending Library.

World War One British poets : Brooke, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, and others Edited by Candace Ward 1997 Archive.org Lending Library.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Aces Up by Covington Clarke 1929 Gutenberg.org. Librivox audio version. Archive.org. About American aviators.
• 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.
• The Cockpit: Flying Adventures for Young Pilots 8 short stories, 4 by Kenneth Quintrel, 2 by Arch Whitehouse, 1 by Captain W E Johns, and 1 by Rudolf Stark with illustrations by Stanley Orton Bradshaw and Howard Leigh. Catalogued 1934. Archive.org. A digital reprint.
• 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