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*''An account of the operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia, December 1917 to December 1918, with the names of all the units which served with the division and a nominal roll of all the officers'' by Walter Edward Wilson-Johnston 1919. UIN: BLL01012503831 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gUe-BAAAQBAJ Sample pages from a reprint edition] Google Books.*''Iraq Administration Reports 1914–1932'' in ten volumes (5, 500 pages): Contents: 1. 1914-1918 -- 2. 1918 -- 3-4. 1919 -- 5-6. 1920 -- 7. 1920-1924 -- 8. 1925-1927 -- 9. 1928-1930 -- 10. 1931-1932, with contents outline.<ref> [https://web.archive.org/web/20190422134233/http://www.archiveeditions.co.uk/titledetails.asp?tid=51 Iraq Administration Reports 1914–1932], archived link.</ref> UIN: BLL01006696261

*''History The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920, as part of ''The Railway Gazette and Railway News''. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the Corps role of Royal Engineers Volume VII: Campaigns railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia and , Palestine & East Africa, and the inter-war period, 1918-38'' edited by H.L. Pritchard 1952. Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01008913272BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available from the Institution of Royal Engineers (InstRE), as in a book or part of a CD-ROM.reprint edition<ref>[https://www.instre.org/pages/publications/booksnaval-formilitary-sale/corps-historypress.php Corps History] and [https:com/product/www.instre.org/pages/publications/currentrailway-publications/corpsgazette-historyspecial-cdgreat-rom.php Corps History CDwar-transportation-ROMnumber/ ''Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number''] The Institution of Royal Engineers (InstRE)Naval & Military Press.</ref>.

*Transcribed [httphttps://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/the-memoirs/beresford/ Diary of Stanley Cyril Beresford Mundey] Captain Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry ([[43rd Regiment of Foot|43rd]]). He went from India to Mesopotamia to rejoin his regiment in May 1915, flew with the RFC as an observing officer from 7th September 1915 (page The Union Jack Was Hoisted) and took part in the Siege of Kut, although there is no account of this period. The account for 1916 covers his time as a POW until December 1916. Trinity College Dublin tcd.ie*[https://ww1.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/stories/lieutenant-henry-gallup / Soldiers’ Stories: [Diary extracts<nowiki>]</nowiki> Lieutenant Henry Gallup of 1/5th Hampshire Howitzer Battery, Royal Field Artillery] was present at the siege of Kut. National Army Museumww1.nam.ac.uk*[httphttps://wwwww1.nam.ac.uk/microsites/ww1/stories/private-william-jay Soldiers’ Stories: [Account extracts<nowiki>]</nowiki> Private William Jay of 1/5th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment]. An account of the attempt to relieve the besieged British-Indian forces at Kut. Includes details of the dreadful conditions the wounded endured due to lack of medical facilities. ww1. nam.ac.uk

*"The Mesopotamian Front! As Observed by Lieutenant Colonel Edward Davis, U.S. Cavalry, 1918". edited by Leo J Daugherty III ''Armor'' March-April 2003, pages 25- 35. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fciar.org%2Fttk%2Fmbt%2Farmor%2Farmor-magazine%2Farmor-mag.2003.ma%2F2daughtery03.pdf html version], [http://ciar.org/ttk/mbt/armor/armor-magazine/armor-mag.2003.ma/2daughtery03.pdf pdf]ciar.org. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BxkttmsEs44C&pg=PA25 Google Books version]. Page 35 states " For the best overall account of the Mesopotamian Campaign, see A J Barker ''The Bastard War''", available online, see below.

:[https://web.archive.org/web/20140508054910/http://www.bcmh.org.uk/archive/conferences/2012MespotUlrichsen.pdf "Learning The Hard Way: The Indian Army In Mesopotamia, 1914-1918"] by Dr Kristian Coates Ulrichsen, BCMH Summer Conference 2012 – Indian Armies (The British Commission for Military History bcmh.org.uk, now an archived webpage.) :[https://orientxxi.info/l-orient-dans-la-guerre-1914-1918/british-policy-in-mesopotamia-april-1916-march-1917,1021 "British Policy in Mesopotamia (April 1916-March 1917)"] by Kristian Coates Ulrichsen 11 November 2019. orientxxi.info. During this period, Indian Expeditionary Force D was transformed into the '''Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force (MEF)''', re-equipped, and reorganised. *[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA523248/mode/2up ''Middle Eastern Geographies of World War I''] by Maj James G Riely, United States Army 2010. Archive.org Defense Technical Information Archive Collection. DTIC ADA523248 . Contrasts the operations which led to the fall of Kut, with the successes of the British-sponsored Arab Revolt of 1916-18.*[http://ir.canterbury.ac.nz/bitstream/10092/2085/1/Thesis_fulltext.pdf ''Cavalry of the Clouds: Aspects of the Air War in the Eastern Theatre,1914-1918''] by C H. Whitley 1997. A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History in the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. A pdf download, which depending on your browser, you may need to locate in your downloads folder.

*[http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?p=5004 “Yet another Indian First World War memoir found!”] Article about the ''War Memoirs'' of Captain Limaye, Indian Medical Service, written in Marathi. He was with the 87th Punjabis 1918-1921. He saw action in Mesopotamia and was involved in operations against the Kurdistanis in 1919 and in quelling the Arab Rebellion in 1920. amitavghosh.com. This book may be viewed online on the Digital Library of India website, refer Historical books online below.

*[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/*20181228150313/http://www.mespot.co.uk/* journalGrandpa’s Journal], and then use that URL now archived. Harry James Goulter Pearman was with the Army Audit Staff in the Wayback MachineMesopotamia.</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. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042329/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.04.18.shtml 18 April 1921], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042355/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.04.26.shtml 26 April 1921], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042420/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.05.16.shtml 16 May 1921], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042448/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.05.27.shtml 27 May 1921], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042518/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.06.27.shtml 27 June 1921], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042543/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.07.04.shtml 4 July 1921], [https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042611/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.07.09.shtml 9 July 1921].All are now archived webpages. :Most of the diary entries are for 1921. It is difficult for some/all browsers to navigate this website, see hints below if you want to read additional entries.<ref>The dates of the entries are in the top LH corner of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20181228150313/http://mespot.co.uk/ Home webpage] now archived, from 21 December 1920 to 1 February 1922. Before being archived, the entries from the journal were 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). A typical example is <nowiki>http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.04.18.shtml</nowiki> , and most entries are similarly from 1921. Construct your own URL, using the relevant date, then use "Browse History" in the [https://archive.org/web/web.php#forum Internet Archive Wayback Machine] to obtain the archived URL. Alternatively using the Internet Archive (archive.org) link [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.mespot.co.uk/* mespot.co.uk] scroll down to entries containing the word journal, and then click on the link. However, these links are not all in date order.</ref>

*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-233516266 Map of City of Baghdad] from ''A Handbook on Mesopotamia'' prepared on behalf of the Admiralty and the War Office [by] Admiralty War Staff, Intelligence Division 1916-1918. National Library of Australia. Includes Liquor Shops and Brothels.* Catalogued as [http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022522753.0x000002 [A collection of military maps of Mesopotamia ... and the River Euphrates, on various scales<nowiki>]</nowiki>] 1916-1918. Consists of 3 maps including Baghdad and surrounds; Sketch map of Kirkuk; Sketch map of Tikrit. British Library Digital. These maps are titled with a TC (=Tigris Corps) number, and were produced by the Survey of India, see item further in this section.

* Also see Historical books online, following, particularly the first item.*About Maps:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-records-of-survey-of-india-vol-20-the-war-record-s-pdf/ ''Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920''] 1925. If the download button does not display, locate in Books/Survey Of India, or [https://pahar.in/?wpfb_dl=21751 Direct link] PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=jAFEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Google Books version] (now full view). [https://archive.org/details/records-survey-india-vol.-20 Archive.org version]. Work of Royal Engineers and other staff of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.:Maps for Mesopotamia, not generally available online, are to be found in The National Archives[UK] series [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14506 WO 302]

:Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library editions. Note: Missing all/most Maps. Maps are available in the Qatar Digital Library versions (best for expansion of maps) or Archive.org versions.

:Qatar Digital Library versions, best for expansion of maps. From British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/15/66/1-4 . [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551844.0x000001 Vol I]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551852.0x000001 Vol II]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551857.0x000001 Vol III]; [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025551863.0x000001 Vol IV]. To '''access the maps''', open the volume links, then expand the heading "About this record", and scroll down for links to the maps.:Also available in Naval & Military Press reprint editions which in turn are available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as one digital book [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ807HO4jJ8fYHZVXDO ''The Campaign in Mesopotamia''] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Iraq).*War Diaries, Army Headquarters India for I. E F "D", held at the British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3223 through to IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3328A have been digitised on the Qatar Digital Library.:British Library catalogue record [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/79qrt5/IAMS040-000795917 IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3223] Click on Browse this collection to access details of other records, and click through to Qatar Digital Library for the digitised items.:The final item in this series is British Library catalogue record [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/1r5koim/IAMS040-000796023 IOR/L/MIL/17/5/3328A General Routine Orders (incomplete)] by the Commander of Indian Expeditionary Force D between 28 December 1915 and 10 July 1918.*''History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4'' all by Major A.F. Becke RFA (Retired) (London: HMSO, 1935-1945)**''Part 1 - The Regular British Divisions'' pub. 1935. [https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-p-1 Archive.org]**''Part 2A. The Territorial Force Mounted Divisions and the 1st-Line Territorial Force Divisions (42-56)'' pub. 1936. [https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-p-2-a Archive.org]**''Part 2B. The 2nd-Line Territorial Force Divisions (57th-69th) with the Home-Service Divisions (71st-73rd) and 74th and 75th Divisions'' pub. 1937. [https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-p-2-b Archive.org], **''Part 3A New Army Divisions (9-26)'' pub. 1938. [https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-p-3-a Archive.org]*:[https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-pt3b ''Part 3B New Army divisions (30-41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division''] pub. HMSO 1945 Archive.org. **''Part 4. The Army Council, G.H.Q.s, Armies and Corps 1914-1918'' pub. 1945. [https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-p-4 Archive.org] : Includes some details about Mesopotamia, (perhaps limited?) but note these books appear to be in respect of the British Army only, (not Indian Army). : There were subsequent publications ''Order of Battle of Divisions Part 5A, Divisions of Australia, Canada and New Zealand and those in East Africa'', compiled by F.W. Perry c 1992. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01006378898 and ''Order of Battle of Divisions. Part 5B, Indian Army Divisions'' compiled by F. W. Perry c 1993 available at the B.L. UIN: BLL01008151437 . The latter is also catalogued with the additional title ''History of the Great War : based on official documents''. *[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101048260184?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Report of the Commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the Operations of War in Mesopotamia. Together with a separate report by Commander J. Wedgwood and appendicesAppendices'']. Presented to Parliament. HMSO 1917. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/structure/188193 Menadoc at Bibliothek.uni-halle.de version]. [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000b2 Qatar Digital Library version]. [https://archive.org/details/mesopotamia-comm-report1917/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org version].

*''An Account of the Operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia December 1917 to December 1918'' by Lieut. Col WE Wilson-Johnston 1920 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/account-of-the-operations-of-the-18th-indian-division-in-mesopotamia-december-1917-to-december-1918/ ''An Account of the Operations of the 18th (Indian) Division in Mesopotamia December 1917 to December 1918''] by Lieut. Col WE Wilson-Johnston. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8EamDdOvsqUYaJ6Gh online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in World War II/Military Books-located by the Search/India).*''The “D” Force (Mesopotamia) in the Great War'' by J Fitzgerald Lee 1927 is available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/d-force-mesopotamia-in-the-great-war/ ''The “D” Force (Mesopotamia) in the Great War''] by J Fitzgerald Lee. Naval & Military Press reprint edition.</ref> which in turn is available [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI191uqJWSzz online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3] (located in World War II/Military Books-located by the Search/Britain).*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42328?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''A Chapter of Misfortunes : the Battles of Ctesiphon and of the Dujailah in Mesopotamia, with a summary of the events which preceded them''] by Major-General W. D. Bird 1923 HathiTrust Digital Library* ''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/32882019291049-loyaltiesmesopo/page/n5 ''Loyalties Mesopotamia 1914-1917: A personal and Historical Record. From the Outbreak of War to the Death of General Maude''] by Arnold T Wilson 1930. Archive.org. It is also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409322492553 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition.:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000009934342?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920''] by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. HathiTrust Digital Library. Possibly not accessible in USA etc. Also available as a download from [http://menadocwww.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409340592554 Kurdipedia.bibliothekorg] 1936 edition.uni Also published under the title ''Mesopotamia, 1917-halle1920; a Clash of Loyalties''.de*[https:/landau/contentarchive.org/titleinfodetails/189330 mesopotamia031379mbp ''Mesopotamia: The Last Phase''East India ] by Lieut.-Colonel A H Burne Second Edition 1938 (MilitaryFirst edition 1936?)Archive.org. From March 1917.*[https: Despatches regarding operations //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 Persian Gulf and Egyptian Expeditionary Force in Mesopotamia.*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b746003?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''The Tragedy of Mesopotamia''] by Sir George Buchanan 1938. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in respect .ernet.dli.2015.59319 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of Indian Expeditionary Force DIndia. The author was Director-General of Port Administration and River Conservancy at Basra. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Buchanan_(engineer_born_1865) George Buchanan] presented to both Houses Wikipedia entry*[https://archive.org/details/kutdeathofarmy0000mill/page/n3/mode/2up ''Kut, the death of Parliament an Army''] by Ronald HMSO London Millar 1969. Also published under the title [https://archive.org/details/deathofarmysiege0000mill/page/n5/mode/2up ''Death of an Army: the Siege of Kut, 1915-1916''] by Ronald Millar 1970. Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-AnhaltArchive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/siege00brad ''A Handbook of MesopotamiaThe Siege'' ] by Admiralty War Staff Intelligence DivisionRussell Braddon 1970. Archive. 1916-1917org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. In four volumesExtra wording on cover ''The Forgotten Siege of Kut El Amarah, (plus a supplementary volume)Mesopotamia, the first contains matters 1916 - A saga of a general natureheroism and military blunder, the other volumes contain a description greatest humiliation suffered by British Arms between Balaclava and Singapore''.*[https://archive.org/details/nationalarmymuse0000carv/mode/2up ''The National Army Museum book of the river Turkish Front 1914-1918 : the Campaigns at Gallipoli, in Mesopotamia and land routesin Palestine''] by Field Marshal Lord Carver 2004, with a mapfirst published 2003. The Mesopotamia campaign commences [https://archive.org/details/nationalarmymuse0000carv/page/102/mode/2up Chapter 6, page 102]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/spiesinarabiathegreatwarandtheculturalfoundationsofbritainscovertempireinthemiddleeastbypriyasatia/mode/2up ''Spies in Arabia: The Great War and a “Gazetteer the Cultural Foundations of Towns”Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East''] by Priya Satia 2008. See [Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/deserthellbritis0000town/mode/2up ''Desert Hell : the British invasion of Mesopotamia''] by Charles Townshend 2011. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. This is the USA title. Published 2010 in UK as ''When God made Hell: the British invasion of Mesopotamia and the Creation of Iraq#Historical books online| Iraq 1914- Historical books online]1921''. (The author is not related to Major General Sir Charles V F Townshend)*[https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford ''Eden to Armageddon : World War I in the Middle East'']by Roger Ford 2010. Includes a [httphttps://nlaarchive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford/page/18/mode/2up Part I "Mesopotamia"] page 19. Covers the period to the armistice. Archive.govorg Books to Borrow/Lending Library.au*[https:/nla/archive.objorg/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-233516266east_202012/view Map mode/2up ''The Fall of City The Ottomans: The Great War In The Middle East''] by Eugene Rogan 2015. [https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of -the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org.* ''When’s When In Mesopotamia'' by General Staff, Mes. Ex. Force Printed at the Government Press Baghdad1919. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284792 Archive.org version] nla, mirror from Digital Library of India. Conversion tables showing the European style dates from August 1914 to December 1919 and the equivalent dates under various other systems: Arabic - Old Style - Turkish Official - Jewish - Persian Zodiacal. Also details of Arabic time, where the day commences at sunset.* ''The Spoken Arabic of Mesopotamia'' by John Van Ess, first published 1917. [https://archive.govorg/details/in.auernet. dli.2015.284503 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India. =====Medical=====

:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744277?urlappend=%3Bseq=242 "Casualties in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, November 1914 to December 1918"] page 218 ''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War'' by Major T. J. Mitchell and Miss G. M. Smith. 1931 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library:*[https://archive.org/stream/reviewofappliede51917comm#page/22/mode/2up "The Control of Flies and Vermin in Mesopotamia"] page 23 ''The Review of Applied Entomology Volume V 1917'' Archive.org.*[http://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00swayuoft#page/n5/mode/2up ''In Mesopotamia''] by Martin Swayne (real name [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Nicoll Maurice Nicoll]), illustrated by the author. 1917 Archive.org. The author was a doctor in the British Army working in a mobile hospital. **[https://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00nico#page/50/mode/2up/ "Heat-Stroke"] Chapter IV page 51 ''In Mesopotamia'' by Martin Swayne (real name Maurice Nicoll) 3rd edition 1918 Archive.org. Heatstroke was also known as sunstroke, and occasionally as insolation or siriasis.*[https://archive.org/details/messagefrommesop00lawl ''A Message from Mesopotamia''] by the Hon. Sir Arthur Lawley 1917 Archive.org . The author was a Red Cross Commissioner investigating [medical] conditions.* See next section for an account of the 33rd Motor Ambulance Convoy. *''Kalyan Pradeep: Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukhopadhadhaya, I.M.S.-er Jiboni'', by Mokkhoda ['Mokshada'] Debi (1928) [''Kalyan Pradeep: The Life of Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I.M.S.''] in Bengali. The catalogue entry is ''Kalyan-Pradip'' by Mokshada Debi. There are two book files, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.477826 Archive.org version 1], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.336494 Archive.org version 2], mirror from Digital Library of India.:Also see External links above for some translated excerpts from this book.* ''Sainyaan'tiila Aat'havand-ii'' by Limaye Go Gan' published 1939. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.366403 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Sainyatil Athavani'', or ''War Memoirs'' of Captain Gopal Gangadhar Limaye. Marathi language with an English Introduction. The author was in the Indian Medical Service IMS, 1918-1921. As part of the 87th Punjabis, he saw action in Mesopotamia and was involved in operations against the Kurdistanis in 1919 and in quelling the Arab Rebellion in 1920.:Also see External links above for an article about this book.=====Corps histories and accounts=====*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.32044076903947?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''With the M. T. in Mesopotamia''] by Brevet Lt.-Col F W Leland RASC 1920 Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/MTMesopotamia/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version]. (M.T.= Mechanical Transport, part of the Royal Army Service Corps):[httphttps://searchfind.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER241339 permalink/61SLV_INST/s6pvau/alma992413393607636 ''From the Gulf to the Caspian : being the souvenir booklet of the 33rd. Motor Ambulance Convoy which served in Mesopotamia and North Persia, 1916 to 1919''] written by various members of the unit who remain anonymous. [1920?] State Library of Victoria. This Unit consisted of Army Service Corps personnel, together with Royal Army Medical Corps personnel.

*[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Corps-History-Vol-07.pdf ''History of the Corps of Royal Engineers, Volume VII: Campaigns in Mesopotamia and East Africa, and the inter-war period, 1918-38''] edited by H.L. Pritchard, published 1952. nzsappers.org.nz :[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00hall#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia''] compiled by Lieut.-Col. L. J. Hall , RE. 1921 Archive.org

*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027820442 manyfronts0000free/page/n9 "The Fight for the Garden of Eden"], page 7 ''Many Fronts''Monsby Lewis R Freeman 1918. Archive.org. From a collection of stories and sketches. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_R._Freeman Lewis R. Freeman] Wikipedia. The author was a war correspondent 1915-1917.*[https://archive.org/details/fromgallipolitob00ewinuoft ''From Gallipoli to Baghdad''] by William Ewing, Anzac and Kut Chaplain to the Forces 1917 Archive.org*''A History of the British Cavalry, 1816-1919 [https://archive.org/details/historyofbritish0000angl_a6v0 Volume 6 1914-1918 Mesopotamia''] by The Marquess of Anglesey 1995 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/thirteenthhussar00dura ''The Thirteenth Hussars in the Great War''] by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Archive.org. The Regiment served in Mesopotamia from c July 1916.*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811391 ''With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia : 1916-1917''] by an MP (One of its Officers. 1918 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/highlandregiment00blamuoft/page/n7/mode/2up 2nd file] Archive.org. The author is elsewhere stated to be Aubrey HerbertHarold John Blampied, [[73rd Regiment of Foot|2nd Battalion, Royal Highland Regiment (The Black Watch)]].: ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/1/mode/2up ''Volume One''] including 2nd Battalion in [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/230/mode/2up Mesopotamia] page 203. Digital Archive@McMaster University Library. [https://archive.org/details/historyblackwatch-vol1/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. One'', Archive.org version].*[https://archive.org/stream/scottishhistoric16edinuoft#page/312/mode/2up "The Seaforth Highlanders, August 1914 to April 1916"] by H.H.E. Craster pages 309-324 ''Scottish Historical Review 16'', 1919 Archive.org. At Includes a Battalion of the Seaforths in Mesopotamia from the end of 1915, taking part in an unsuccessful attempt to relieve Kut.*[https://archive.org/details/unofficialhistor00slim/page/n5 ''Unofficial History''] by Field Marshal Sir William Slim 1962, first published 1959. Archive.org Lending Library. The first 3 chapters are about Mesopotamia. Slim was then with the Royal Warwickshire Regiment.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156399 ''Mesopotamia, 1914-15 : Extracts from a Regimental Officer's Diary''] by H. Birch Reynardson 1919 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. The author was liaison an officer in the [[43rd Regiment of Foot|1st Oxfordshire and Intelligence officer Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]].*[http://archive.org/stream/mesopotamia00palmuoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Letters from Mesopotamia in 1915 and January, 1916''] from Robert Palmer 1916 Archive.org. He went with a draft from the 6th Hants, ([[37th Regiment of Foot|Hampshire Regiment]]) in India since November 1914, to Admiral Wemyssreinforce the 4th Hants. Both these regiments were part of the Territorial Force. He was killed June 21, 1916, Commander-in-Chief aged 27 years.*[https://archive.org/details/wreathofmemories00gosciala/page/62 Mesopotamia] page 62 ''A Wreath of Memories: George Joachim Goschen'' (Viscount) 1917. Archive.org. At the end of 1915, he came with his regiment 1/5th Bn. [[3rd Regiment of Foot|East Kent Regiment]] (TF) from India Fleet. He was engaged in attempted negotiations with the Turks died 19 January 1916 of wounds received 7 January at the fall [[Battle of KutSheikh Sa'ad|battle of Sheikh Saad]]. *[https://archive.org/details/the-connaught-rangers-vol-1/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Connaught Rangers Volume 1, 1st Battalion, formerly 88th Foot''] by Lieut.-Colonel HF N Jourdain and Edward Fraser 1924 Archive.org. During the Great War, the Battalion fought in Mesopotamia, on the Western Front and in Palestine.*[https://archive.org/streamdetails/histeastsurreyregimentvol3/cu31924027820442#page/n235n9/mode/2up page 229''History of the East Surrey Regiment Volume 3 1917-1919'']by Colonel H W Pearse and Brigadier-General H S Sloman 1924 Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia, along with T E Lawrenceincluding punitive operations in Southern Khurdistan (Kurdistan) in 1919.:*[https://archive.org/streamdetails/dli.ministry.19498/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914 to 1919''] by C TAtkinson 1924. Archive.org.EIncludes two chapters on Mesopotamia, in 1915 and 1917, and mentions of Mesopotamia in Chapters 31-32. Also available as a [https://web.archive.Lawrenceorg/Tweb/20140224123824/http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/QORWK%20C%20T%20E20Atkinson.html transcription]*[https://archive.%20Lawrence#org/details/norfolkregimentvol2/page/n109n9/mode/2up''The History of the Norfolk Regiment 1685-1918. Volume 2, 4th August 1914 to 31st December 1918''] by F Loraine Petre c 1925 Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia.*[https:/ Page 99/archive.org/details/manchesterregimentvol2/page/n11/mode/2up ''History of the Manchester Regiment (Late the 63rd and 96th Foot), Volume 2 1883-1922''] by Colonel H C Wylly 1925 Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia, both in 1916-1917 and during the 1920 Revolt.*[https://archive.org/details/hist2ndqueensrregv7/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of the Queen’s Royal Regiment Volume 7''T] [1905- 1923] by Colonel H C Wylly c 1925 Archive.org. The Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment. EIncludes Mesopotamia. Lawrence*[https: In Arabia and After//archive.org/details/the-devonshire-regiment-1914-1918/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918'' ] by Liddell Hart 1934 C T Atkinson 1926 Archive.org. The various Battalions fought in Mesopotamia, on the Western Front, in T E Lawrence accompanied Aubrey HerbertSalonika, Egypt, Palestine, Italy and North Russia, to negotiate regarding and were in India.*[https://archive.org/details/greenhowardsgtwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Green Howards in the besieged Kut garrisonGreat War''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1926 Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia.*[https://archive. Extracts from Lawrence’s description org/details/hist1-2batleicestershirereg/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of these proceedingsthe 1st & 2nd Battalions, the Leicestershire Regiment in a letter dated 18 May the Great War''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1928. Archive.org:[1916https://archive.org/details/leicestershiresb00thomrich ''The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad''] from by Edward J Thompson MC 1919 Archive.org. The author was an Army chaplain, (Methodist), with the website 2nd Leicesters, and a scholar & writer.<ref name=TDJ> [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20190611114923/https://www.acenturybackturnerdonovan.com/2016download/04currCat.pdf June 2019 catalogue] turnerdonovan.com.</29ref>. Also see Fiction below. *[https:/lord/archive.org/details/worcestershirereggreatwar/page/n15/mode/2up ''The Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War''] by Captain H FitzM Stacke (Henry FitzMaurice) 1928 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/baggingbaghdad00bettgoog ''The Bagging of Baghdad''] by Ernest Betts (late the Worcestershire Regiment) a book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. 1920 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalrecord04dudl ''Regimental Records of the Royal Welch Fusiliers (23rd Foot). Volume IV 1915-dunsany1918 Turkey-alarumBulgaria-andAustria''] by Major C H Dudley Ward 1929 Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/loyalnorthlancashirereg/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Loyal North Lancashire Regiment Volume 2 1914-exeunt1919''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1933. Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia.*[https://archive.org/details/gunrunninggulf/page/145/mode/2up "Rifle Thieves of Iraq"] page 146 ''Gun-rebellesrunning in the Gulf and Other Adventures'' by Brig.-aubreyGen. H H Austin (Herbert Henry) 1926 Archive.org*Articles from ''The Army Quarterly'', all Archive.org.**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv3-herbert1921/page/77/mode/2up '"The Memory of a Side-andShow"] by H B R page 77 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 3, 1921 October-some1922 January. Kurna Mesopotamia, the land of the Marsh Arabs.**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv6-fellow1923/page/n33/mode/2up "Kut-namedUl-lawrenceAmarah"] by Major-atGeneral J C Rimington page 17 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 6, 1923 April-kut-raymond-asquithJuly. **[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv7-1923/page/329/mode/2up Notes on-depressed-glamor-queens-and-the-pleasures-Military Geography ofIraq] by Captain R J Wilkinson I A page 329 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 7, 1923 October-the1924 January**[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv7-breast A Century Back1923/page/n377/mode/2up “A Tribal War”]: Writing the Great Warby R H D page 345 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 7, Day 1923 October- 1924 January. The Persian road in Mesopotamia in 1918.**"Some Aspects of Maude’s Campaign in Mesopotamia" by DayMajor R H Dewing R E. April 29, 2016. Scroll down***[https://archive. org/details/armyquarterlyv13-1926/page/297/mode/2up Part 1] page 297 ''The letter was written to his familyArmy Quarterly'' Volume 13,<ref>1926 October- 1927 January. ***[https://wwwarchive.facebookorg/details/armyquarterlyv14-1927/page/69/mode/2up Part 2] page 69; [https://archive.comorg/details/armyquarterlyv14-1927/page/n417/mode/permalink.php?story_fbid2up Part 3] page 347 ''The Army Quarterly'' Volume 14, 1927 April- July ======Siege of Kut and Prisoner of War accounts====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 detailsIncludes accounts by Medical Officers and Royal Flying Corps members.

:[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 Hathi Trust 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.

*[https://archive.org/details/caughtbyturks00yeatuoft ''Caught by the Turks''] by Francis Yeats-Brown 1919 Archive.org The author was a member of the Royal Flying Corps who was captured near Baghdad in 1915. Also by the same author ''Bengal Lancer'', (1930) which contains a chapter on his time in Mesopotamia prior to his capture: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58995 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208478 Another Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Golden Horn'' by Francis Yeats-Brown 1932 [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209036 Archive.org version]. , mirror from Digital Library of India. "A sketch of the political activities in Turkey from 1908 to the world war, and an account of the author's experiences as a prisoner of war of Turkey. This latter part (chap. V-XI) is a revision of the author's book published in 1919 under title: ''Caught by the Turks''." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown Wikipedia]

=====Naval=====*''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/warbagdadrailway00jast ''The War and the Bagdad Railway; the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict''navaloperations03corb Volume III] by Morris Jastrow 1917 ArchiveIncludes Mesopotamia.org*[https://archive.org/streamdetails/cradleofwar00wood#pagenavaloperations04corb Volume IV], includes Mesopotamia. [http:/n327/modewww.naval-history.net/2up 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"The Baghdad Railway including in respect of the Dardanelles and the War"] with Mesopotamia.<ref>MartH. [https://archivewww.greatwarforum.org/streamtopic/cradleofwar00wood#page/n326/mode61344-rarest-book/1up Map?do=findComment&comment=2829724 Rarest book?] post 869, page 271 35 ''The Cradle 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 WarMuseum/Battery Press in 1995 (available at the British Library UIN: The Near East BLL01011725482) and Panit 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-Germanismlocated by the Search/Britain) contain the revised editions. *[http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/world-war-i-naval-staff-monographs '' by Henry Charles Woods 1918 ArchiveWorld 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.org*[http://archive.org/stream/navyinmesopotami00catouoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Navy in Mesopotamia, 1914 to 1917''] by Conrad Cato [Cyril Cox RNR] 1917 Archive.org. Cox served aboard the sloop Odin, which was able to navigate the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

*''Tigris Gunboats : a narrative of the Royal Navy's co-operation with the military forces in Mesopotamia from the beginning of the war to the capture of Baghdad (1914-17)'' by Vice-Admiral Wilfrid Nunn 1932 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/tigris-gunboats-a-narrative-of-the-royal-navys-co-operation-with-the-military-forces-in-mesopotamia-from-the-beginning-of-the-war-to-the-capture-of-baghdad-1914-1917/ ''Tigris Gunboats: A Narrative Of The Royal Navy’s Co-Operation With The Military Forces In Mesopotamia From The Beginning Of The War To The Capture Of Baghdad (1914-1917)''] by Vice-Admiral Wilfrid Nunn, first published 1932. Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available as an online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19j4MlTv7n ''Tigris Gunboats''] (located in World War2/Military booksBooks-located by the Search/Britain).=====In the Air=====

* ''War In The Desert: An R. A. F. Frontier Campaign'' by John Bagot Glubb 1960. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.150717 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library History of IndiaNo. Mainly about Iraq in the 1920s30 Squadron RAF.*[https://archive.org/details/waringardenofede00roosuoft ''War in the Garden of Eden''] by Kermit Roosevelt, Captain, Motor Machine Gun Corps Egypt and Mesopotamia 1914 to 1919 Archive.org. The author was an American, the son of (pre WW1) US President Theodore Roosevelt, who was appointed an honorary Captain in the British Army in August 1917. Page 66 indicates the author was in the 14th Battery, Light-armoured motor-cars (14th L. A. M. B.). The fighting cars were Rolls-Royce.*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9c54969p?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''The Liberator of Mesopotamia''] [Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maudecatalogued] by Basil Mathews 1918 Hathi Trust Digital Library*Official Despatches from ''The London Gazette'' and details of some Official Documents digitised by the British Library, and other digitised material, are linked from [http://warletters.net/battles/mesopotamia/ Mesopotamia In The First World War] warlettersMajor J.net. For despatches from ''The London Gazette'' from 1919Everidge, see further belowR.*[http://wwwA.qdlF.qa/en/ Qatar Digital Library] Digitisation of content from the British Library’s India Office Records Collection. When looking at is available as a book file, to select a particular page, click on “View all items”. Downloads also available.**reprint<ref>[httphttps://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x00019c ''Report by Brigadier W. S. Delamain, C.B., D.S.O., on the operations of the Indian Expeditionary Force "D" up to 14th November 1914''] published by the General Staff, India (Government Central Branch Press, Simla: 1916) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/88**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001a3 ''Report on the Operations in the Vicinity of Shaiba 12thnaval-military-14th April 1915''] Simla: General Staff India, 1915. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/95**[https://wwwpress.qdl.qacom/enproduct/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001a5 ''Report from Gen Sir John Eccles Nixon, Commanding I.E.F. 'D', on the Operations on the Euphrates 26th Junehistory-25th July 1915 (including the battle of Nasiriyah)''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/97. Click on "About this record" to see List of Maps**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x0001ad ''Report from Lieut-General Sir P. H. N. Lake K.C.B., K.C.M.G. Commanding I.E.F. "D" on the Defence of Kutno-30-Alsquadron-Amarah under Majorraf-General C. V. F. Townshend, C.B., D.S.O., 3 December 1915egypt-29 April 1916''] IOR/L/MIL/17/15/105**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023442330.0x000002 ''Short memorandum on the inception, difficulties and results of the Mesopotamian Campaign''] printed by the General Staff, India (Simla, 1916) IOR/L/MIL/17/15/76**[http://www.qdl.qa-mesopotamia-1914-to-1919/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023464681.0x000002 ''Mesopotamian Transport Commission. Report of the Commission appointed by the Government History of India.No.30 Squadron RAF. to enquire into questions connected with the organisation Egypt and administration of the Railway and River Transport in Mesopotamia1914 to 1919''] 1918Naval & Military Press. IOR</L/MIL/17/15/125/1. This book is ref> also available of [https://archive.org/details/an original Air Ministry Historical Branch typed document, probably first published as a reprint c 2004, which in.ernet.dli.2015.206468 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ***[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023203943.0x000001 2 Maps] issued with turn is available as an online book on the report including "Railway Map of Basra and Magil". IOR/L/MIL/17/15/125/2. Qatar Digital Library.**[https://www.qdlfold3.qacom/enbrowse/archive310/81055/vdc_100000000884hTGb85NZ8RjXJU2phiOmLuyYn Ancestry owned pay website fold3.0x0003a5 ''Report for the Army Council on Mesopotamia''com] located in Military Books-located by Sir John P Hewett 1919. IORthe Search/L/PS/20/35. The report mainly concerns agricultural development, with a section on infrastructure such as ports, railways etc. Qatar Digital LibraryEgypt.*:[https://archive.org/details/someimpressionso00hewerich ''Some impressions of Mesopotamia in =====From 1919''] by Sir John P Hewett HMSO 1920 Archive.org.=====*[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Default.aspx The British Library digitised manuscripts] include Official Despatches**IOR/L/PS/11/121 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/PS/11/121 1917 Political and Secret Annual Files] which includes “Indian Journalists Tour of Mesopotamia” Newspaper articles written in Indian newspapers June 1917**IOR/L/PS/11/129 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=Ior/l/ps/11/129 1917 Political and Secret Annual Files] includes P 4640/1917 The Turkish campaigns in For earlier Despatches, refer the website Mesopotamia, Palestine and Hedjaz; P 4700/1917 In The First World War: arrest in Persia of certain Indian Army deserters, case of one Abdul Manun; P 4973/1917 The War: military situation warletters.net, above in Turkeythis section.*:[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31287/supplement/4739 Despatch by Lieut-General Sir W R Marshall] on the operations of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force from 1st October 1918 to 31st December 1918, dated 1st February 1919. Mesopotamia and NW Persia (page 4743) ''The London Gazette'' 8 April 1919 Supplement: 31287 Page: 4739

*[httphttps://archive.org/details/jramc.bmj.com-1922-vol38vol39/contentpage/39353/5mode/354.full.pdf 2up "Narrative of a March into Kurdistan during the Rebellion of 1919"] by Captain J. C. Burns ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1922;39:5 pages 354-371. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv11-1925/page/85/mode/2up "The Campaign in South Kurdistan, 1919"] by the Rev. J Cethin Jones (Chaplain to Fraser’s Force) page 86 ''The Army Quarterly Volume 11, 1925 October- 1926 January''. Archive.org

*[https://archive.org/details/32882019307837insurrection-theinsurrection mesopotamia/page/n11/mode/2up ''The Insurrection in Mesopotamia 1920''] by Lieutenant General Sir Aylmer L. Haldane 1922. Archive.org. Missing title page noted, :Also see [[Mesopotamia Campaign#Regimental histories and accounts|Regimental histories and see "Reviews" underneath accounts]] above for the Manchester Regiment during the book file for other missing pages1920 Revolt. *[https://web.archive.org/webdetails/20070503162055/http://wwwin.ernet.deandli.usma2015.edu43529/historypage/web03n5/resourcesmode/resource%20pages/Mesopotamia/insurrection_mesopotamia.html Another version on 2up ''Alarms and Excursions in Arabia''] by Bertram Thomas 1931 Archive.org] . Includes "Adventure 1: A Punative Expedition against Marsh Arabs" (links to a series of pdfs, most of which contain the text ”on its side”, so may be difficult to read on a fixed computer screen.) [https1918] and "Adventure II://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006041251 HathiTrust Digital Library], accessible As a District Officer in North America and limited other areas onlythe Mesopotamian Insurrection of 1920".

*British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/15/61 [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/permalink/f/1r5koim/IAMS040-000799074 ''Iraq: A Study in Political DevelopmentReport of the Operations connected with the Occupation of Penjwin between April 18th and May 7th, 1927'' ] by Philp Willard Ireland 1937. the Iraq Levies and Iraq Army, with link to online version on Qatar Digital Library:British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/15/62 [httpshttp://archivesearcharchives.bl.orguk/permalink/f/details1r5koim/IAMS040-000799075 ''Report on the operations carried out in.ernet.dli.2015.55027 Archive.org the southern desert in connection with the Iraq-Najd borders, November 1927-May 1928''] with link to online version], mirror from on Qatar Digital Library of India. A printed report on air and motorcar operations. :British Library IOR/L/MIL/17/15/63 [httpshttp://archivesearcharchives.bl.orguk/permalink/f/details1r5koim/IAMS040-000799076 ''Report on the operations carried out in the southern desert in connection with the Iraq Additional file Archive.org-Najd borders, June 1928-May 1929'']with link to online version on Qatar Digital Library. Includes chapters A printed report on the war period, in addition to the post war yearsair and motorcar operations.*[https://archive.org/streamdetails/in.ernet.dli.2015.77401/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp#page/n251n5/mode/2up Page 219] ''The Memoirs Of Sir Ronald StorrsShifting Sands'' 1937 ] by Major N N E Bray (Norman Napier Evelyn) 1934 Archive.org. He was originally with the 18th Bengal Lancers.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=WXFGDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA23&ots=oMqUy46uiO&dq=Norman%20Napier%20Evelyn%20Bray&pg=PA23 Page 23] ''Behind the Lawrence Legend: The authorForgotten Few Who Shaped the Arab Revolt'' by Philip Walker 2018 Google Books.</ref> Initially during WW1 Bray was working under Sir Mark Sykes, working and for the Foreign Office in Egypt, was appointed Political Officer in Mesopotamia in Arab Bureau. C October 1917 he returned to represent France and his regiment. Subsequently he became the Egyptian Expeditionary Force Hakim (Governor) of Kerbela, as a part of the British Administration of A. T Wilson in Mesopotamia.*''Field Notes Mesopotamia'' by General Staff India 1915 (Poor quality print) :[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108689 526657/page/n7/mode/2up ''A Paladin Of Arabia: The Biography of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel G E Leachman… of the Royal Sussex Regiment''] by Major N N E Bray 1936 Archive.org version. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard_Leachman Gerard Leachman]Wikipedia. He was murdered 12 August 1920. A later biography is ''Leachman : 'OC Desert' : the life of Lieutenant-Colonel Gerard Leachman D.S.O.'' by H.V.F. Winstone, mirror from Digital 1982. Available at the British Library of IndiaUIN: BLL01011983983 .* ''When’s When In MesopotamiaIraq: A Study in Political Development'' by Philip Willard Ireland General Staff, Mes1937. Ex. Force Printed at the Government Press Baghdad 1919. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284792 55027 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. Conversion tables showing the European style dates from August 1914 to December 1919 and the equivalent dates under various other systems[https: Arabic - Old Style - Turkish Official - Jewish - Persian Zodiacal//archive. Also org/details of Arabic time/Iraq Additional file Archive.org]. Includes chapters on the war period, where in addition to the day commences at sunsetpost war years.* [https://archive.org/details/WarInTheDesertJohnBagotGlubb/mode/2up ''War In The Spoken Arabic of MesopotamiaDesert: An R. A. F. Frontier Campaign'' ] by John Van Ess, first published 1917Bagot Glubb 1960. Archive.org. Mainly about Iraq in the 1920s. :[https://archive.org/details/inarabianadventure0000glub ''Arabian Adventures : Ten years of joyful service''] by John Glubb (Sir John Bagot Glubb) 1978. The period from 1920, when he was posted as a member of the Royal Engineers.ernetArchive.dliorg Books to Borrow/Lending Library.2015[https://en.284503 Archivewikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bagot_Glubb John Bagot Glubb], mirror from Digital Library of IndiaWikipedia.*''Kalyan Pradeep[https: Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukhopadhadhaya, I.M.S//archive.org/details/kurds-turks-and-arabs-politics-travel-and-research-in-north-eastern-iraq-1919-er Jiboni1925/page/n1/mode/2up ''Kurds Turks and Arabs: Politics, by Mokkhoda [Travel and Research in North-Eastern Iraq 1919-1925'Mokshada'] Debi by C J Edmonds (1928Cecil John) [''Kalyan Pradeep: The Life of Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I1957 Archive.Morg.S.''] in Bengali Note, text is presented “on its side”, so viewing may be read online difficult on a fixed screen. C J Edmonds was also the [[Online books#Digital Library author of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The catalogue entry is ''KalyanEast and West of Zagros: Travel, War and Politics in Persia and Iraq, 1913-Pradip1921'' edited, and with an introduction by Yann Richard 2010. Mokshada Debi There are two book filesAvailable at the British Library UIN: BLL01015362692 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YhewCQAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 Sample pages, Google Books]. [https://archivewww.iranicaonline.org/detailsarticles/inedmonds-c-j Edmonds, C.ernetJ] iranicaonline.dliorg*[https://archive.2015.477826 org/details/the-kurds-and-kurdistan/page/34/mode/1up "Chapter V Iraq between the Wars"] page 35, ''The Kurds And Kurdistan'' by Derk Kinnane 1964 Archive.org version 1], mirror from Digital Library of India; *[https://archive.org/details/list-of-british-military-forces-in.ernet.dli.2015.336494 -iraq/mode/2up "List Of British Military Forces In Iraq 1928"] Archive.org version 2]. WO 33/1163 from The National Archives, Kew, mirror from Digital Library of IndiaUK.* [http://assyrianlevies.info/1915-1932.html ''Sainyaan'tiila Aat'havandIraq Levies 1915-ii1932'' ] by Limaye Go Gan' published 1939Brigadier J Gilbert Browne CMG. CBE. DSO. 1932 . A transcription. “Assyrian RAF Levies”. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.366403 file1-iraqlevies/File1Iraqlevies/ Archive.org mirror version]. Also available in a reprint edition, mirror from Digital Library of India<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press. com/product/iraq-levies-1915-1932/ ''Sainyatil AthavaniIraq Levies 1915-1932'', or ] 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 ''War MemoirsThe Iraq Levies'' of Captain Gopal Gangadhar Limaye] (located in Military Books-located by the Search/Iraq). Marathi language with an English Introduction*[https://archive. org/details/arabbureaubritis0000west ''The author was Arab Bureau : British policy in the Indian Medical Service IMSMiddle East, 19181916-19211920''] by Bruce Westrate 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. As part *''A History of the 87th PunjabisIraq'' by Charles Tripp. [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00char 1st edition, 2000]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq0000trip 3rd edition 2007], (2nd edition 2002), he saw action in Mesopotamia and was involved in operations against the Kurdistanis in 1919 and in quelling the Arab Rebellion in 1920 [https://archive.org/details/historyofiraq00trip 2nd file 2007] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.

*'''=====Fiction'''=====**[https://archive.org/details/cu31924013590975 ''On the Poad Road to Bagdad; a Story of Townshend's Gallant Advance on the Tigris''] by Lieut-Col Brereton 1917. Archive.org. An adventure story.**[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38714 ''Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad''] by Herbert Strang 1917 gutenberg.org. An adventure story for younger readers.*[https://archive.org/details/sim_blackwoods-magazine_1925-10_218_1320/page/558/mode/2up "The Kana Burha"] by Major-General Sir George MacMunn, page 558 ''Blackwood's Magazine October 1925, Volume 218''. Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.72840/page/n3 ''These Men, Thy Friends''] by Edward Thompson 2nd edition 1929 Archive.org. He was an Army Chaplain with the 2nd Leicesters, see his account above, and also wrote fictional works with a war background in Palestine.<ref name=TDJ/> **[https://archive.org/details/legionofmarching00blaciala/page/n7 ''The Legion of Marching Madmen''] by W J Blackledge c 1936 Archive.org. This book is considered to be fiction, although classified by some as a personal narrative, as discussed in a ''Great War Forum'' topic.<ref> MaureeneMaureenE. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/270727-fictionfactionfact-the-legion-of-marching-madmen-w-j-blackledge-online/ Fiction/faction/fact? The Legion of Marching Madmen/ W J Blackledge: Online] ''Great War Forum'' 15 March 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2019.</ref>