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*[http://www.reubique.com/IWT.htm Inland Water Transport and Docks] Reubique.com. The article mentions that this section of the Royal Engineers was founded in 1914 and was later responsible for alternate transportation during World War One in various theatres of war - including Mesopotamia where personnel from India and China were deployed.
*[http://www.mespot.co.uk Grandpa’s Journal] Harry James Goulter Pearman was with the Army Audit Staff in Mesopotamia. Most of the entries are for 1921. It is difficult for some/all browsers to navigate navigate this site.<ref>The dates of the entries are in the top LH corner of the Home webpage. The entries from the journal are in the format
<nowiki>http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/ab.cd.ef.shtml</nowiki> , where, for a particular entry, ab is the year, cd is the month, ef is the first mentioned day in the month (all two digits). For archive.org diary entries, scroll down to URLs containing the word [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mespot.co.uk/* journal], and then use that URL in the Wayback Machine.</ref> The following entries contain items relating to issues of fraud by members of the IWT (Inland Water Transport), including the court martial of an officer. [http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.04.18.shtml 18 April 1921], [http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.04.26.shtml 26 April 1921], [http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.05.16.shtml 16 May 1921], [http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.05.27.shtml 27 May 1921], [http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.06.27.shtml 27 June 1921], [http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.07.04.shtml 4 July 1921], [http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.07.09.shtml 9 July 1921].
*[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Battle1408Mesopotamia.htm World War 1 at Sea - Naval Battles in outline: Mesopotamian (Iraq) Campaign, 1914-1918] naval-history.net
*[http://www.gwpda.org/naval/euphgb.htm RN's Tigris + Euphrates River Gunboats] with a link to The Tigris Flotilla. gwpda.org
*[http://assyrianlevies.info/1915-1932.html ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] by Brigadier J Gilbert Browne CMG. CBE. DSO. 1932 . A transcription. “Assyrian RAF Levies”. Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/iraq-levies-1915-1932/ ''Iraq Levies 1915-1932''] Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8DmZCOdYo ''The Iraq Levies''] (located in World War II/Military Books/Iraq).
* ''The Ins and Outs of Mesopotamia'' by Thomas Lyell 1923. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175176 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*''Iraq: A Study in Political Development'' by Philp Willard Ireland 1937. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.55027 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/Iraq Additional file Archive.org] - may require a Djvu or BitTorrent plugin for ease of reading. Includes chapters on the war period, in addition to the post war years.
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp#page/n251/mode/2up Page 219] ''The Memoirs Of Sir Ronald Storrs'' 1937 Archive.org. The author, working for the Foreign Office in Egypt, was appointed Political Officer in Mesopotamia in 1917 to represent the Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia.
*''Field Notes Mesopotamia'' by General Staff India 1915 (Poor quality print) [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108689 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
