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=====French Army=====
*[https://archive.org/details/uncensoredletter00vassuoft ''Uncensored letters from the Dardanelles''] written to his English Wife by a French Medical Officer of Le Corps Expeditionnaire D’Orient [Joseph Marguerite Jean Vassal] 1916 Archive.org. Book No. 4 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War''. Elsewhere it is stated he was born in Talence, Gironde in 1867, and belonged to the 6th Colonial regiment. His wife, née Gabrielle Candler, was responsible for part of the translation.<ref>[http://www.vlib.us/medical/qmbiblio1.htm "A Bibliography of Great War Medicine"] vlib.us. </ref>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120202152916/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/With_the_Foreign_Legion_in_Gallipoli/With_the_Foreign_Legion_in_Gallipoli_01.htm "With the Foreign Legion in Gallipoli"] by Ex-Sergeant A. R. Cooper [Adolphe Richard (Dick)]. greatwardifferent.com, now an archived website. An It seems likely that it is an extract from either ''The Man who Liked Hell : Twelve Years in the French Foreign Legion'' by ex-Sergeant A. R. Cooper, in collaboration with Sydney Tremayne, 1933, (elsewhere stated to have been ghost written from his notes, available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000776161), or his revised as the Gallipoli account also appeared in the 1936 anthology ''Fifty amazing stories of the Great War''. Cooper also wrote a revision of the 1933 book , ''March or Bust : Adventures in the Foreign Legion'' 1972 (BL UIN: BLL01009693296) which is considered more honest and valuable.,<ref> [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z2AFCDknFJIC&pg=PT846 Page from ''Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France's Colonial Conquests 1870-1935''] by Martin Windrow. Google Books</ref> Cooper also wrote and '' Born to Fight'' 1969 which is also an autobiography, (BL UIN: BLL01000776160). An account by Cooper is included in the 2016 publication ''In the Trenches: Those Who Were There'' by Rachel Bilton. [http://www.specialforcesroh.com/gallery.php?do=view_image&id=15460&gal=gallery A.R. (Dick) Cooper] specialforcesroh.com. He served in Special Forces in WW2.
*''Les Archives de la Grande Guerre [et de l'histoire contemporaine]'' French language. In 17 volumes, which have been digitised on Gallica, Bibliothèque nationale de France in 13 digital files. [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6582541w/f9.item Volume 17], the final volume, contains a Contents section which appears to cover all 17 Volumes, click on the icon for Table des matières. Then scroll down to "Front d'Orient" for a number of articles on the Balkans and the Dardanelles, where you can click through to the relevant articles (which may be in volumes other than Volume 17). For more details of this publication, see [[Western Front]].
=====New Zealand Army=====
*[https://archive.org/details/lightshadeinwar00rossrich ''Light and Shade in War''] by Captain Malcolm Ross, Official War Correspondent with the New Zealand Forces and Noel Ross of ''The Times'' (lately Lance-Corporal with the Anzacs and Lieutenant Territorial Artillery 1916. Archive.org. .Includes chapters about Gallipoli
