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*[https://archive.org/details/leicestershiresb00thomrich ''The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad''] by Edward J Thompson MC 1919 Archive.org. The author was an Army chaplain, (Methodist), with the 2nd Leicesters, and a scholar & writer.<ref name=TDJ>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190611114923/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf June 2019 catalogue] turnerdonovan.com.</ref>. Also see Fiction below.
*[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
→Regimental histories and accounts
: ''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. 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 an officer in the [[43rd Regiment of Foot|1st Oxfordshire and 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 reinforce the 4th Hants. Both these regiments were part of the Territorial Force. He was killed June 21, 1916, aged 27 years.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.19498/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment 1914 to 1919''] by C T Atkinson 1924. Archive.org. Includes two chapters on Mesopotamia, in 1915 and 1917, and mentions of Mesopotamia in Chapters 31-32. Also available as a [https://web.archive.org/web/20140224123824/http://janetandrichardsgenealogy.co.uk/QORWK%20C%20T%20Atkinson.html transcription]
*[https://archive.org/details/the-devonshire-regiment-1914-1918/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Devonshire Regiment 1914-1918''] by C T Atkinson 1926 Archive.org. The various Battalions fought in Mesopotamia, on the Western Front, in Salonika, Egypt, Palestine, Italy and North Russia, and were in India.
*[https://archive.org/details/greenhowardsgtwar/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Green Howards in the Great War''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1926 Archive.org. Includes Mesopotamia.
*[https://archive.org/details/hist1-2batleicestershirereg/page/n9/mode/2up ''History of the 1st & 2nd Battalions, the Leicestershire Regiment in the Great War''] by Colonel H C Wylly (Harold Carmichael) 1928. Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/leicestershiresb00thomrich ''The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad''] by Edward J Thompson MC 1919 Archive.org. The author was an Army chaplain, (Methodist), with the 2nd Leicesters, and a scholar & writer.<ref name=TDJ> [https://web.archive.org/web/20190611114923/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf June 2019 catalogue] turnerdonovan.com.</ref>. Also see Fiction below.
*[https://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 1915-1918 Turkey-Bulgaria-Austria''] 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 1914-1919''] 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-running in the Gulf and Other Adventures'' by Brig.-Gen. H H Austin (Herbert Henry) 1926 Archive.org
======Siege of Kut and Prisoner of War accounts======
