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*[https://archive.org/details/witharmiesofts00farm/page/n5 ''With the Armies of the Tsar : a Nurse at the Russian Front, 1914-18''] by Florence Farmborough 1975. First published 1974 with title ''Nurse at the Russian Front: A Diary 1914-18''. Archive.org Lending Library. The author “was a 27-year-old Englishwoman employed as a governess to a family in Moscow when war broke out. She volunteered with the Red Cross..." [http://www.edwardlengel.com/an-englishwomans-epic-russian-journey-9-best-war-memoir/ "An Englishwoman’s Epic Russian Journey: #9 Best War Memoir"] by Edward Lengel author of ''World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919''.
*[https://archive.org/details/fieldhosflyingcolumn00thuruoft/page/n5 ''Field hospital and flying column : being the journal of an English nursing sister in Belgium & Russia''] by Violetta Thurstan 1915 Archive.org. The author was with the Red Cross. Biographical details.<ref>Light, Sue. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/37002-violetta-thurstan/?tab=comments#comment-2818218 Violetta Thurstan] ''Great War Forum'' 23 August, 2005. Retrieved 8 November 2019.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violetta_Thurstan Violetta Thurstan] Wikipedia. Following the publication of her book, she was in charge of hospitals in Belgium, and Salonika, and was appointed to the Air Force. She helped in the civil war in Spain in 1937, and served during WW2.
*[https://archive.org/details/survival_through_war_and_revolution_in_russia/mode/2up ''Survival through War and Revolution in Russia''] by D Fedotoff White, [Dimitri] also written as Dmitry Nikolaevich Fedotov-White. 1939. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitrii_Fedotoff-White Dmitrii Fedotoff-White] (Wikipedia) Imperial Russian Navy officer who fought for the White forces during the Russian Civil War. ''Survival'' [https://archive.org/details/survival_through_war_and_revolution_in_russia/page/n201/mode/2up/ page 194] indicates he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve. This appears to be from 22 June 1918, and he left in 1919, (demobilised by May). He was known as Daniel Fedotoff White, and was Mentioned in Despatches and awarded the DSC. However his British Navy service is not detailed in the book.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofforeign00maur ''Memoirs of the Foreign Legion''] by M. M. [Maurice Magnus, an American who committed suicide in 1920, before the book was published]. With an introduction by D. H. Lawrence. 1925 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Magnus Maurice Magnus] Wikipedia. [https://archive.org/stream/americanfighters00paul#page/154/ Maurice Magnus] page 154 ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918'' by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org. [http://www.booksandwriters.co.uk/F/books-about-the-french-foreign-legion.html Books About The French Foreign Legion] booksandwriters.co.uk
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34310/page/n5 ''Testament of Youth: An Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900-1925''] By Vera Brittain. Ninth impression 1935, first published August 1933. Archive.org
