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Mesopotamia Campaign

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:[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.
:[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.
* See next section for an account of the 33rd Motor Ambulance Convoy.
=====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 HathiTrust Digital Library. (M.T.= Mechanical Transport, part of the Royal Army Service Corps)
:[https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/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.
:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n129/mode/2up "Mesopotamia"] commences page 111.
=====Regimental histories and accounts=====
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/356/mode/2up "Desert and Marsh in Arabistan"] by G E H page 356 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 198 July-December 1915. Archive.org. Pursuit of the Turkish Army by British and Indian troops.
*[https://archive.org/details/manyfronts0000free/page/n9 "The Fight for the Garden of Eden"], page 7 ''Many Fronts'' by 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.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/warincradleworl01egangoog#page/n9/mode/1up ''The war in the cradle of the world Mesopotamia''] by Eleanor Franklin Egan 1918. Archive.org The author was correspondent for the Saturday Evening Post. More details in [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6546/is_51/ai_n29153246/?tag=content;col1 "Writing "Mesopot": Eleanor Franklin Egan on the river to Baghdad, 1917"] by David Hudson.
*[https://archive.org/stream/onroadtokutsoldi00blacrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''On the road to Kut: a soldier's story of the Mesopotamian campaign''] with 56 illustrations and a map. 1917 Archive.org. The author appears to be an officer from India in a Mule Corps.
=====Unclassified=====
*[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.
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