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==At sea==

During the First World War ships of the [[Bombay Marine|Royal Indian Marine]] carried troops and other war stores from India to Egypt, Mesopotamia and East Africa. When mines were detected off the coasts of Bombay and Aden during the First World War, the Royal Indian Marine went into action with a fleet of minesweepers, patrol vessels and troop carriers. The Royal Indian Marine also played a leading role in landing troops in Mesopotamia and their small river craft did very useful work on the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.<ref>Abstract of a paper "Royal Indian Marine in the First World War" by Kalesh Mohanan presented at the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140610091810/http://www.indiaww1.in/Conference.pdf ''India And The Great War'' Conference] at The United Service Institution of India, New Delhi: 5-7 March 2014, now an archived webpage</ref>

*[http://1915crewlists.rmg.co.uk Crew Lists of the British Merchant Navy-1915] National Maritime Museum rmg.co.uk. The crews originated from all over the world and on some vessels the British nationals were in a minority.

*Also see [[Royal Navy]], which also includes some information about the Merchant Navy.

:Details of Red Cross work may be found in the 1921 HMSO publication of 823 pages: ''Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war 1914–1919, with appendices'', now available in a reprint<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/voluntary-aid-rendered-to-the-sick-and-wounded-at-home-and-abroad-and-to-british-prisoners-of-war-1914-1919/ ''Reports by the Joint War Committee and the Joint War Finance Committee of the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England on voluntary aid rendered to the sick and wounded at home and abroad and to British prisoners of war 1914–1919, with appendices''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> edition, which in turn is available to read online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, refer Historical books online below.

*[http://fau.quaker.org.uk The Friends Ambulance Unit] was set up by Quakers in the UK during World War I. The personnel records from this service are now available to search online. Library of the Religious Society of Friends, London, NW1.

== Related articles ==

*[https://archive.org/details/worldwarshortacc00fieb ''The World War: a Short Account of the Principal Land Operations on the Belgian, French, Russian, Italian, Greek and Turkish Fronts''] by Colonel G J Fiebeger 1921 Archive.org.

:[http://cgsc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p4013coll7/id/866 ''Atlas'' to accompany ''The World War: a Short Account...''] Link to pdf download, Combined Arms Research Library [CARL] Digital Library [USA].

*''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. [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl_1/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl/page/n1 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo02howl/mode/2up Vol. II 2nd file] Archive.org.

*[https://archive.org/details/militaryatlasoff00arth/page/n9 ''A Military Atlas of the First World War''] by Arthur Banks 1975 Archive.org Lending Library.

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458869 ''A History of the Great War 1914-1918''] by CRMF Cruttwell 1934 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81643 2nd Edition, with additions and corrections, 1940/(1936)] [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.81643/2015.81643.A-History-Of-The-Great-War-1914-1918-Edition-Ii#page/n673/mode/2up Index] Archive.org. Considered to provide "a good overview, although a little outdated".<ref name=Cru/>

:[https://archive.org/details/roleofbritishstr035460mbp ''The Role Of British Strategy In The Great War''] by CRMF Cruttwell 1936 Archive.org

*[https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar00tayl/page/n1 ''The First World War : an Illustrated History''] by A J P Taylor. 1980? edition, originally published 1963. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also see his book above ''War by Time-Table''.

*[https://archive.org/details/greatwar0000barn_t8c8/mode/2up ''The Great War''] by Correlli Barnett 1979. [https://archive.org/details/greatwar0000barn 2003 edition] with a new introduction by John Terraine. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

:Other books in this series: ''Medical Services: Diseases of the War'' [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicesd01macpuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicesd02macp Volume II]; ''Medical Services: Surgery of the War'' [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicess01macpuoft Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/medicalservicess02macpiala Volume II]; [https://archive.org/details/191418medicalserv00macpuoft Medical Services: Pathology] 1922-1923 Archive.org. ''Medical Services: Hygiene of the War'', 1923, published by HMSO, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kB4hAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Vol. I], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=mB4hAQAAIAAJ&pg=PP5 Vol. II] Google Books, [https://archive.org/details/hygiene-war-vol-1/page/n5/mode/2up Vol. I], [https://archive.org/details/hygiene-war-vol-2/page/n5/mode/2up Vol. II] Archive.org mirror versions.

:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744277?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War''] by Major T. J. Mitchell and Miss G. M. Smith. 1931 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/casualties-medical-statistics-gw/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version].

*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28medicine%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Medical+Department+of+the+United+States+Army+in+the+World+War%29&sort=-date ''The Medical Department of the United States Army in the World War''] Archive.org. A series of 15 Volumes, some with 2 Parts, and 1 Supplement, total c 19 volumes. Also included in the link is a book about the US Navy Medical Department.

*[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069748/ ''Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 1914–1918''] in three volumes. Australian War Memorial. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211415 ''Volume III''] ''Special Problems and Services'' 1943. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.211415/page/n627 Pages 567-571] cover Australian nurses in India.

==== Corps, Munitions, Equipment, Railways etc.====

* ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force , [[Gallipoli]], [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|the Balkans]], [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]], [[Mesopotamia Campaign|Mesopotamia]], [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]], Italy, North Russia, England and India.

* ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War'' by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I) and chapters on Other Arenas (Part II): The Home Base; the Base in the Levant and Mediterranean [Egypt]; Gallipoli; Salonika; Palestine; Mesopotamia; East Africa; Italy; Russia and Siberia.

*[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "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 Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.

*Tanks

:[https://archive.org/details/tanksbyrequestwi00swin_0 ''The "Tanks" : (by request, and with permission)''] by Colonel E.D. Swinton, Royal Engineers. 1918. Archive.org. Reprinted from ''The World’s Work'' (a monthly magazine, published in New York).

:[https://archive.org/details/tankpioneers0000mack/mode/2up ''The Tank Pioneers''] by Kenneth Macksey 1981 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

:There are additional online Tank books linked on the page [[Western Front#Tanks|Western Front-Historical books online-Tanks]].

*[https://archive.org/details/railway-manual-war-1914/page/n13/mode/2up ''Railway Manual (War) 1911 (Reprinted, with amendments, 1914)''] (120/Mobn./264) Archive.org.

*[https://archive.org/details/britishrailwaysw00mcke ''British Railways and the War''], by F. A. McKenzie 1917 Archive.org

====In the Air====

*''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 and Appendices by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II] (including Gallipoli), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III] (inc East Africa), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] (inc Egypt/Palestine, Mesopotamia, Macedonia), [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] (inc Palestine, Mesopotamia, India). [https://archive.org/details/war-air-v7/page/n7/mode/2up ''Appendices'' [Volume VII<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org. Includes Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS).

*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022541482.0x000002 ''The Work and Training of the Royal Flying Corps''. [With illustrations<nowiki>]</nowiki>]. Published by authority of the Royal Flying Corps [1918]. British Library Digital collection. The images are rotatable.

*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556809.0x000002 ''Royal Flying Corps ... Military Wing. Casualties and Honours during the war of 1914-17'']. Compiled by Captain G. L. Campbell ... assisted by R. H. Blinkhorn. 1917. British Library Digital collection. [https://archive.org/details/casualties-honours-rfcmilw/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].

*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''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. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].

*Submarines

:[https://archive.org/details/journalofsubmari0000fors/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner''] translated from the German by Mrs Russell Codman 1917. An abridged translation of a 1916 book by Georg-Günther Freiherr(n) von Forstner, commander of the first German U-boat. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/journal_submarine_commander_1101_librivox Librivox recording, English language] Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/alsubootskommand00fors/page/n5/mode/2up ''Als U Boots Kommandant gegen England''] 1916 Archive.org

:[https://archive.org/details/submarineantisub00newbuoft/page/n9 ''Submarine and Anti-submarine''] by Henry Newbolt 1918 Archive.org.

:In 1999 there was a 6 volume reprint by Trident Press International of the 13 Volume series under the original title, and also under the title ''The Great War -the Illustrated History of the First World War'' with Volume 1 also titled ''Opening Moves'' and Volume 4 ''Carnage''. [https://archive.org/details/greatwarstandard0003unse/page/n5/mode/2up 1999 reprint edition of original Volume 3 and Volume 4] Archive.org Books to Borrow.

*''A Popular History of the Great War'' edited by Sir J A Hammerton c 1933 Archive.org, most from the Public Library of India Collection. A series of six volumes which is an original narrative "embodying the gist of post-war revelations and official documents" (according to the Editors Introduction) but making use of material from the 13 volume series ''The Great War'', see previous entry. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96728 Vol. 1 1914], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96729 Vol. 2 1915], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96730 Vol. 3 1916], [https://archive.org/details/popularhistoryof0004sirj/page/n5/mode/2up Vol. 4 1917], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96731 Vol. 5 1918], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96732 Vol. 6 Armistice and After]

*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Harper%27s+Pictorial+Library+Of+The+World+War%29&sort=-publicdate ''Harper's Pictorial Library Of The World War''] 1920 Archive.org. Links to 12 volumes. The 12 titles are listed on the [https://archive.org/details/HarpersPictorialLibraryOfTheWorldWarV1 Volume 1] file.

*''The Story of the Great War''. Published by Collier and Son, New York in sixteen volumes. [https://archive.org/details/storyofgreatwarc02reyniala Scroll down to Contents outline]. There is an associated eight volume series, (perhaps condensed to 80%, with fewer illustrations) with some editions titled ''The Story of the Great War. History of the European War from Official Sources. Complete Historical Record of Events to date''. Edited by Francis J Reynolds and Allen L Churchill , published c 1916-1920.

*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n35/mode/2up "The British Postal Censorship"] Chapter III, page 18 ''The Note-book of an Intelligence Officer'' by Eric Fisher Wood 1917 Archive.org

:[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100007658957.0x000002 ''The London Censorship 1914-1919''] by members of the staff past and present. Great Britain. Postal Censor's Department. [London, 1920] , British Library Digital Collection.

*[https://archive.org/details/horsewarillustra00galt ''The Horse and the War''] by Captain Sidney Galtrey. Illustrated from drawings by Captain Lionel Edwards and from photographs. 1918 Archive.org

:[https://archive.org/details/bookofpoemsforbl00bluerich ''A Book of Poems for the Blue Cross Fund (to help horses in war time)''] 1917 Archive.org. Poems about horses.