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Historical books online
*[https://archive.org/details/fiftythousandmil00wall ''Fifty Thousand Miles on a Hospital Ship''] by “The Padre” [Charles Steel Wallis] 1917 Archive.org. The hospital ship that Padre Wallis joined in 1915 was most likely the 'Goorkha'.<ref>frev. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/253987-norwegian-matron-on-indian-hospital-ship/?do=findComment&comment=2569706 Norwegian Matron on Indian Hospital Ship] ''Great War Forum'' 3 October 2017. Retrieved 28 November 2020.</ref> She was then an Indian Hospital Ship staffed by doctors from the Indian Medical Service, although subsequently became a British Hospital Ship.
*[https://archive.org/details/IanHay1951ArmyNursing ''One Hundred Years of Army Nursing : The Story of the British Army Nursing Service from the time of Florence Nightingale to the present day''] by John Hay Beith 1953 Archive.org. Contains chapters on WW1.
*[https://archive.org/details/ourhospitalanzac00denn/mode/2up ''Our Hospital ABC''], title also ''Our Hospital Anzac British Canadian''. Pictures by Joyce Dennys, Verses by Hampden Gordon and MG Tindall. Catalogued 1915. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/observationsofor00muir/page/n6 ''Observations of an Orderly; some glimpses of life and work in an English War Hospital''] [3rd London General Hospital] by L-Cpl Ward Muir, RAMC(T). 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/observations_of_an_orderly_0909_librivox Librivox audio version] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/diarywithoutdate00bagn/page/n7/mode/2up ''A Diary without Dates''] by Enid Bagnold 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere this is stated to be a record of Bagnold's VAD work at the Royal Herbert Hospital, Shooter's Hill, Greenwich, near London. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enid_Bagnold Enid Bagnold] Wikipedia. Also see [[Western Front#Fiction| Western Front-Fiction]] for a later book based on Bagnold's experiences as a driver in France.
:[https://archive.org/details/onhertheirlivesd0000wool/page/n3 ''On Her Their Lives Depend : Munitions Workers in the Great War''] by Angela Woollacott 1994. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/womenswarwork00grearich/page/n5 ''Women's War Work''] ''Information officially compiled for the use of recruiting officers, military representatives and tribunals''. Issued by the War Office September 1916. HMSO. Includes [https://archive.org/details/womenswarwork00grearich/page/30 "Munitions Work"] page 31. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ourgirlsinwartim00gord/mode/2up ''Our Girls in Wartime''] Rhymes by Hampden Gordon, Pictures by Joyce Dennys. Catalogued 1917. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.10161/page/n1230/mode/1up "Women’s War Work"] Page 1054, Volume 32 ''Encyclopaedia Britannica'' 12th edition 1922. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. For a stated transcription, or partial transcription, see External links above.
*[https://archive.org/details/helmetsbodyarmor00deanuoft ''Helmets and body armor in modern warfare''] by Bashford Dean 1920. [https://archive.org/details/metmuseum-Helmets_and_Body_Armor_in_Modern_Warfare Another file] (images differ in colour) Archive.org
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