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**[https://archive.org/details/kelantan-ww1-pepys/mode/2up "Kelantan During World War I"] by W E Pepys, an article from ''Malaya in History'' July 1960 (Malayan Historical Society), pages 36-39. Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. Purcell was a member of the Malayan Civil Service 1921-46. The initial chapters are about his WW1 service in the British Army on the [[Western Front]].
*:Purcell was also the author of ''Malaya : Outline of a Colony'' [1946], available at the British Library UIN: BLL01003009266 . [http://www.ppas.gov.my/dokumen/kol-digital/1/Malayan-Outline-Of-A-Colony.pdf Initial pages of the book to page 15] ppas.gov.my. Also available to search but not view [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006530445 HathiTrust Digital Library].
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.353 ''The War in Malaya''] by Lieut.-General A E Percival, G O C Malaya 1941-1942. 1949. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available as a pdf download on the [http://www.sabrizain.org/malaya/library/index.htm Sejarah Melayu [Digital<nowiki>]</nowiki> Library] located under General. Scroll down the alphabetical list to T.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.35260 ''Malaya and its History''] by Sir Richard Winstedt, formerly of the Malayan Civil Service and Reader in Malay, University of London. 2nd edition, revised 1951, first published 1947. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottenarmiesf00bayl ''Forgotten Armies : the fall of British Asia, 1941-1945''] by Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper 2005. Includes Malaya and Singapore. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/sunsetofempirein00tayl/page/n5 ''Sunset of the Empire in Malaya: A New Zealander’s Life in the Colonial Education Service''] by T.K. Taylor 2007. He was appointed by the Colonial Office and worked in Malaya 1946-1960. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://bdeep.org/2015/vb3-malaya/ ''British Documents on the End of Empire. Series B Volume 3. Malaya'', in three parts] edited by A J Stockwell 1995, originally published by HMSO. [https://bdeep.org bdeep.org]. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
:[https://bdeep.org/2015/vb8-malaysia/ ''British Documents on the End of Empire. Series B Volume 8 Malaysia''] edited by A J Stockwell originally published by The Stationery Office (TSO) 2004. [https://bdeep.org bdeep.org]. Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
*''The Directory & Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, &c''. For a range of editions to 1941, see [[China]].
*''The London and China Telegraph''. Published weekly in London. Covers [[China]], Hong Kong, Japan, [[Straits Settlements]] ([[Singapore]], [[Penang]]), [[Indonesia|Batavia]] and perhaps a wider area. For editions 1860-1875 (missing 1862), see [[China]].
