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:The online ''JRAMC'' extracts are easier to read, but missing some parts. Gallipoli Chapters 5-9. Missing May 1936, Chapter 5, (available in main link from page numbered 349) [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/66/6/402.full.pdf 6-7] June 1936, 66 (6) 402-412; [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/jramc/67/1/58.full.pdf 8-9] July 1936, 67 (1) 58-66.
*[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 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 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 '' 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/gallipoligun00mase ''Gallipoli''] by John Masefield 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/gallipolimemorie00comp ''Gallipoli Memories''] by Compton Mackenzie 1929 Archive.org. The first of four volumes of memoirs of his experiences serving with British Intelligence in the Eastern Mediterranean during the First World War. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Mackenzie Compton Mackenzie] Wikipedia. Also see [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)]].
