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*British Red Cross [http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/History-and-origin/First-World-War First World War Volunteers]. Free online Search of British Red Cross record cards for their Volunteers during WW1, many of whom were women.
:[[Findmypast]], a pay website, contains a database "British Red Cross Register Of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918"<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-red-cross-register-of-overseas-volunteers-1914-1918 British Red Cross Register Of Overseas Volunteers 1914-1918] findmypast</ref> (located in Armed forces & conflict/Regimental & service records) which appears to be transcripts of data from the British Red Cross website. This database also contains records for members of other volunteer organisations: Friends Ambulance Unit (FAU), First Aid Nursing Yeomanry (FANY), Order of St. John Ambulance, Scottish Women’s Hospital, Voluntary Aid Detachments (VAD) and Liverpool Merchants’ Hospital. There is also a findmypast database "British Army, British Red Cross Society Volunteers 1914-1918"<ref>[https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-british-red-cross-society-volunteers-1914-1918 British Army, British Red Cross Society Volunteers 1914-1918] findmypast</ref>, (located in Armed forces & conflict/First World War), also of transcripts from the British Red Cross website.
: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>[httphttps://www.naval-military-press.com/product/voluntary-aid-rendered-to-the-sick-and-wounded-at-home-and-abroad-and-to-british_prisonersbritish-prisoners-of-war-1914-1919.html / ''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 Pressreprint 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.
*[http://museumstjohn.org.uk Museum of the Order of St John], Clerkenwell, London, EC1. The Museum contains an Archive which includes First World War holdings. The website also includes online editions of [http://museumstjohn.org.uk/research/st-john-archive/ ''First Aid. The Independent Journal for the Ambulance and Nursing Services''] (scroll down). Journals from 1912 to 1920.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Great+Britain.+Munitions%2C+Ministry+of%22&sort=-publicdate ''History of the Ministry of Munitions''] Volumes 1-8, of a 12 volume series, published 1922 by HMSO. Archive.org. Note: Each Volume may consist of a number of different parts, separately numbered, each with its own Contents page. [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100684998 Volumes 10 and 12 ''The Supply of Munitions'', and additional restricted viewing editions] Hathi Trust Digital Library. ''Volume 10'' consists of [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 Guns], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=109 Gun Ammunition: General], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=183 Gun Ammunition: Shell Manufacture], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=311 Gun Ammunition: Explosives], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=465 Gun Ammunition: Filling and Completing], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014525z?urlappend=%3Bseq=561 Anti-Aircraft Supplies]. ''Volume 12'' consists of [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 Aircraft], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=211 Aerial Bombs], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=247 Tanks], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=351 Mechanical Transport Vehicles], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=419 Railway Materials and Ropeways], [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/umn.31951002014527v?urlappend=%3Bseq=477 Agricultural Machinery]. (Volume 9, ''Review of Munitions Supply'', Volume 11 ''The Supply of Munitions'' -Trench Warfare Supplies, Chemical Warfare Supplies, Optical Munitions and Glassware, Rifles, Machine Guns, Small Arms Ammunition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/official-history-of-the-ministry-of-munitionsvolume-xi-the-supply-of-munitions/ ''History of the Ministry of Munitions'' Volume XI] naval-military-press.com.</ref>, neither volume generally available online on a free basis.)
:All volumes have been reprinted by Naval & Military Press, which in turn are available as one online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.<ref>[https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19lC7Nfqxf ''History of one online book on the Ministry of Munitions''Ancestry owned pay website fold3] fold3 (located in World War2War II/Military booksBooks/Britain)</ref>.
:*[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008895907 ''Technical records of explosives supply, 1915-1918 no.1-9''] Ministry of Munitions and Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. HMSO 1920-1922. Hathi Trust Digital Library. No.9 is also available on Archive.org.
:*[https://archive.org/details/handgrenadeshand00ainsrich ''Hand Grenades: a Handbook on Rifle and Hand Grenades''] by Major Graham M Ainslie 1917 Archive.org
====Volunteers====
*[https://archive.org/details/fordauntlessfran00biny ''For Dauntless France: An Account of Britain's Aid to the French Wounded and Victims of the War. Compiled for the British Red Cross Societies and the British Committee of the French Red Cross''] by Lawrence Binyon [1918] Archive.org. Includes a [https://archive.org/stream/fordauntlessfran00biny#page/336/mode/2up List of British Subjects who went abroad on Red Cross and kindred war-work for the French up to December 31, 1917].
*''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'', originally published 1921 HMSO, is available in a reprint edition, which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, titled [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19oB8mNRMi ''Reports by the Joint War Committee and the''] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain letter R)
*[https://archive.org/details/warpicturesbehin00malc ''War Pictures Behind the Lines''] by Ian Malcolm M P. 2nd edition, 1915. Archive.org. The author was involved in Red Cross work.
*[https://archive.org/details/atwarnortnew00nortuoft ''At the War''] by Lord Northcliffe 1917 Archive.org. Published for the Joint War Committee of the British Red Cross
*[https://archive.org/details/texts?and%5B%5D=Prisoners+of+War&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918%22&sort=&page=1 Books on Prisoners of War from Archive.org]. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28Prisoners+of+War%29&sort=-publicdate Alternative link for Prisoners of War titled books on Archive.org]. Select your own filters.
*[https://www.scribd.com/lists/4561758/Rapports-14-18 Reports by International Committee of the Red Cross about Prisoner of War Camps, WW1] French language. ICRC on scribd.com. Also available through the ICRC website [http://grandeguerre.icrc.org Prisoners of the First World War - ICRC Archives]. Click on individual camps in list of camps. Includes a report regarding “camps de prisonniers en Angleterre’’ (England)
*''List of Places of Internment'' produced by the Prisoners of War Information Bureau in 1919 is an alphabetical listing of Prisoner-of-War camps in Britain and the Commonwealth during the First World War. It is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/lists-of-places-of-internment-2/ ''List of Places of Internment''] Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 titled [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19aXfvGiL4 ''Prisoners of War Information Bureau: List of Places of''] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, letter P)
====Miscellaneous====
*For Army ''Manuals'', see [[Military periodicals online#Army Regulations, Equipment, Manuals etc|Military periodicals online - Army Regulations, Equipment, Manuals etc]]
