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*[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs ''World War I Naval Staff Monographs]''. Select ''Volume 4: Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf'' to download a pdf. Published London July 1921. Royal Australian Navy website (Select Media Room/Publications/World War I Naval Staff Monographs). This publication is also available to read online at the [http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023813250.0x00000b Qatar Digital Library]. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/73. Click on 'About this record' to see List of Maps.
*''History of the Great War based on official documents: Naval Operations''.Volumes I-III by Sir Julian Stafford Corbett, Volumes IV-V by Henry Newbolt. Published 1920-1931. Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations03corb Volume III] Includes Mesopotamia. [https://archive.org/details/navaloperations04corb Volume IV], includes Mesopotamia. [http://www.naval-history.net/index.htm Naval-History.net] has transcribed editions which additionally contain maps from a separate case for Volume III.
: A revised second edition was published for Volume 3 1940, whose dustjacket cover states "Important revisions" including in respect of the Dardanelles and Mesopotamia.<ref>MartH. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/61344-rarest-book/?do=findComment&comment=2829724 Rarest book?] post 869, page 35 ''Great War Forum'' 12 December 2019. Retrieved 14 December 2019.</ref>. A facsimile reprint of the 2nd edition of Volume 3 was reprinted by Imperial War Museum/Battery Press in 1995 (available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011725482) and it is possible that the reprints available from Naval & Military Press, which are in turn available on the Ancestry owned pay website [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19n_VjuTiC fold.3] contain the revised editions.
*[http://www.naval-history.net/WW1Books-Sources-Navy_Records-Naval%20Review.htm World War 1 at Sea - Contemporary Accounts: ''The Navy Records Society'' and ''The Naval Review''] Scroll down to Part 2, ''Naval Review'' letter M “Mesopotamia & Persian Gulf”, then access the articles mentioned in the ''Naval Review'' Archives. naval-history.net. Includes
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20160803082140/http://www.naval-review.com/issues/1920s/1923-1.pdf "The Tigris Above Baghdad"] by Lieut-Comr. A S Elwell-Sutton RN. Scroll to item 15 page 153 ''The Naval Review'' February 1923 Vol. XI No. I, produced by The Naval Society. Now an archived webpage. Details of the Caddisfly, one of the 'Fly' class gunboats.
