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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140327035305/http://www.turkishreview.org/tr/newsDetail_getNewsById.action?newsId=223337 The history hidden in Haydarpaşa Cemetery] by Vedika Kant 01 August 2013. turkishreview.org, now an archived webpage. Holds the graves of some 400 soldiers from what are now the Commonwealth realms who died in Turkey, mostly as POWs, in World War I.
*[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/*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://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
