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*[https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n131/mode/1up/ "The Motor Cycle in Mesopotamia. Carrying Despatches Through Deep Mud and Blinding Dust"] page 70 ''The Motor Cycle'', Volume 17, July 27th 1916 with [https://archive.org/stream/motorcycle17lond_/motorcycle17lond#page/n428/mode/1up/ photographs] page 287. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206598/page/n777 "Australians in Mesopotamia"] Appendix No.5 ''The Australian Imperial Force In France During the Main German Offensive. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume V'' by C W Bean, pages 703-784. 1937 Archive.org.
*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/With-Horse-and-Morse.pdf ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The Story of Anzacs in Asia''] edited by Keast Burke 1927. Includes Pack Wireless Signal Troops from Australia and New Zealand. Some of the digital pages are of very poor quality. nzsappers.org.nz
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015030674355?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''My Campaign in Mesopotamia''] by Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend 1920. London edition. HathiTrust Digital Library.
**[http://archive.org/stream/mycampaign00towngoog#page/n6/mode/2up ''My Campaign: Volume Two''] by Major General Charles Vere Ferrers Townshend. 1920 Archive.org. From a New York two volume edition.
* ''A Brief Outline of the Campaign in Mesopotamia, 1914-1918'' by Roger Evans, 1926 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.81412 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/mesopotamia031379mbp ''Mesopotamia: The Last Phase''] by Lieut.-Colonel A H Burne Second Edition 1938 (First edition 1936?) Archive.org. From March 1917.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force|The Guides, (Cavalry and Infantry)]]; [[7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Regiment of Bengal Infantry|7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajput Infantry]]; [[41st Regiment of Dogra Infantry|41st Dogras]]; [[104th Wellesley’s Rifles]]; [[105th Mahratta Light Infantry]]; [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]; [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal]], [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras]], [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]] for years to 1922;
: For other Indian Army regimental histories on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website), see [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[8th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|20th (Cambridge's Own) Infantry, Brownlow's Punjabis]]; [[24th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|24th Punjabis]]; [[26th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|26th Punjabis]]; [[45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry|45th Rattray’s Sikhs]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[5th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[4th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 2nd Battalion, Madras Pioneers]];
*[https://archive.org/details/marvellousmesopo00parfrich ''Marvellous Mesopotamia: The World’s Wonderland''] by Joseph T Parfit, Canon of St George’s Jerusalem 1920 Archive.org. Contains a number of chapters on WW1, commencing with “The Causes of the War”. Also [https://archive.org/details/mesopotamiakeyto00parf ''Mesopotamia : the Key to the Future''] by Canon J T Parfit 1917 Archive.org and ''Serbia To Kut'' by Joseph T Parfit 1917 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.143207 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Full title: ''Serbia to Kut: an account of the War in the Bible Lands'' [Balkans, Egypt, Palestine, Syria and Mesopotamia]. An overview of the conflict.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027820442 ''Mons, Anzac and Kut''] by an MP (stated to be Aubrey Herbert) 1919 Archive.org. At Kut, the author was liaison and Intelligence officer to Admiral Wemyss, Commander-in-Chief of the East India Fleet. He was engaged in attempted negotiations with the Turks at the fall of Kut, [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924027820442#page/n235/mode/2up page 229], along with T E Lawrence.
:*[https://archive.org/stream/T.E.Lawrence/T.%20E.%20Lawrence#page/n109/mode/2up/ Page 99] ''T. E. Lawrence: In Arabia and After'' by Liddell Hart 1934 Archive.org. T E Lawrence accompanied Aubrey Herbert, to negotiate regarding the besieged Kut garrison. Extracts from Lawrence’s description of these proceedings, in a letter dated 18 May [1916] from the website [http://www.acenturyback.com/2016/04/29/lord-dunsany-alarum-and-exeunt-rebelles-aubrey-herbert-and-some-fellow-named-lawrence-at-kut-raymond-asquith-on-depressed-glamor-queens-and-the-pleasures-of-the-breast A Century Back]: Writing the Great War, Day by Day. April 29, 2016. Scroll down. The letter was written to his family,<ref>[https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=549468815232522&id=278254875687252&substory_index=0 29 April 2016: On this day in history] T E Lawrence Society on Facebook. Retrieved 4 August 2016.</ref> see more details.
:: For more about Lawrence, see [[T E Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia)]].
*[https://archive.org/stream/besiegedinkutaft00barb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Besieged in Kut, and after''] by Major Charles Harrison Barber I M S [Indian Medical Service] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/inkutcaptivitywi00sand ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division''] by Major E W G Sandes 1919 Archive.org
:[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1924-September.pdf ''The Royal Engineers Journal'' Vol. XXXVIII No 3, September 1924] Scroll to “The decision to Defend Kut-El-Amarah by Major EWC Sandes RE, page 423. nzsappers.org.nz
: ''Tales of Turkey'' by Major E W C Sandes 1924. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284373 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b302550?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Turkey in Travail: the Birth of a New Nation''] by Harold Armstrong (Lately Assistant and Acting Military Attache to the High Commissioner , Constantinople) 1925 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The initial chapters cover the fall of Kut and the author’s experiences as POW in Turkey. He appears to have then been an officer in an Indian Army regiment.
*[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], (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Britain) 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.
