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<br>The author Chris Woods may be contacted by email: <nowiki>c.woods45@btinternet.com</nowiki>
===Further notes===
*The alternative incorrect spelling Norderforce is occasionally has been seen.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/inlandwatertrans00hall#page/n7/mode/1up Map of Lower Mesopotamia] from''The Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia'' compiled by Lieut.-Col. L. J. Hall 1921 Archive.org</ref>
*''Operations in Persia 1914-1919'' and ''The Campaign In Mesopotamia 1914-1918'' are available online, refer Historical books online, below.
*''High Road to Command. The Diaries of Major-General Sir Edmund Ironside 1920-22'', ed. Lord Ironside, London, 1972 is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001820215. Ironside was Commander of Norperforce from mid-late 1920 (both August and October dates have been seen). [https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/ironside-william-edmund Ironside, William Edmund] iranicaonline.org
==The British Salonika Force and the Army of the Black Sea==
Immediately after the Armistice with Turkey orders had been issued for British troops to move to the Caucasus, due to the situation there. Troops were sent from the nearest British forces available, from North Persia [Mesopotamia Force], and from the Salonika Force.<ref> Page 503, ''Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War, Volume 2'' by Capt H. FitzM. Stacke, 1928. Reprint edition, Naval & Military Press. Refer Historical books online.</ref> In January 1919 it was decided all British troops in the Caucasus should be under one command, which at that time was still called the British Salonika Force, subsequently known as the Army of the Black Sea,<ref> Page 506, ''Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War, Volume 2'' by Capt H. FitzM. Stacke, 1928. Reprint edition. Naval & Military Press</ref> which was tasked with ensuring that Turkey complied with the terms of the Armistice.
**Ruston had previously been Temp. Lieut-Cdr R.N.V.R, Naval Armoured Car Squadron, during the Russian retreat in Galicia in July and August 1917. Ruston’s Naval commission was terminated 31.1.18 when he transferred to the Army <ref>TNA ADM/273/5/356 and ADM/337/118</ref>, along with other personnel. The Dunsterforce Armoured Car Brigade (known as the Duncars) was formed at the end of January 1918 from personnel from the Russian Armoured Car Division who were transferred from the Admiralty (or, more precisely, the Royal Marines, under whose control they were from November 1917) to the Machine Gun Corps (Motors). Duncars were equipped with a mixture of Austin armoured cars and Ford Model T vans armed with machine guns.<ref> charlesmessenger. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/244590-armoured-cars-naval-galicia-machine-gun-corps-baku/?do=findComment&comment=2460717 Armoured Cars: Naval, Galicia/ Machine Gun Corps, Baku] ''Great War Forum'' 7 November 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2018.</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170521000156/http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/yourplaceandmine/topics/war/rnacd.shtml Ulster's Forgotten Eastern Front] by Peter Stevenson, written c 2004 bbc.co.uk. The story of the Russian Armoured Car Division. Cites the book ''The Czar's British Squadron'' by Bryan Perrett and Anthony Lord.</ref>
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120919161000/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Brits_in_Caucasus/Brits_in_Caucasus.htm 'With British. Armoured-Cars in the Caucasus'] told by a Petty-Officer, from ''The War Illustrated, 3rd February, 1917'' with photographs from an earlier edition. These photographs were republished in [https://archive.org/stream/warillustratedal08hammuoft#page/2720/mode/2up pages 2720-2721, Volume 8] ''The War Illustrated Album de Luxe'' 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, including Dunsterforceand the Campaign in Kurdistan 1919. Also includes nominal rolls at the back of the book. Some of the digital pages are of very poor quality and are illegible. nzsappers.org.nz. Also see Maps above, for a better quality map from this book. nzsappers.org.nz.
*"Epic of the Dunsterforce" ''Reveille'' December 1931, published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch. Contains List of AIF members (Officer and NCOs) of Dunsterforce. Limited extracts from ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia''. [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19311231.1.5&srpos=1&e=------193-en-20--1--txt-txIN-----# Pages 3-4 (digital pages 5-6)], [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19311231.1.34&e=------193-en-20--1--txt-txIN------ page 32 (digital 34)] reveille.dlconsulting.com.
*[http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320701.1.25&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-Bedingfield-----# "East Persia: Aussie’s Experiences"] ''Reveille'' July 1932, page 21 (digital page 25) published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch.
*[https://archive.org/details/mywarexperiences00macnrich ''My War Experiences in Two Continents''] by S MacNaughtan [Sarah] 1919 Archive.org. Based on her diaries. A press cutting states “she is a well-known authoress, whose works have attained a world-wide reputation” (page 167). She worked as an orderly with a Unit in Belgium headed by Mrs St.Clair Stobart, then went as a volunteer to Russia, ending up in the Caucasus, where she fell ill.
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3973360 KV 1/17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 1915-1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau]. Link to a free record download from the National Archives, Kew. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C3973358 KV 1/16-19] Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary which may also contain related material. Unclear if this record series contains any information in respect of Turkey etc.
*[https://archive.org/details/spiesinarabiathegreatwarandtheculturalfoundationsofbritainscovertempireinthemiddleeastbypriyasatia/mode/2up ''Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East''] by Priya Satia 2008. Archive.org.*''Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939 First Series Volume XII'' HMSO 1962. HathiTrust Digital Library. Certain ares areas only, may not be viewable in USA.
**Chapter IV "Transcaucasia February 3, 1920-April 20, 1921". [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112005146078?urlappend=%3Bseq=61 Contents] page lvii, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112005146078?urlappend=%3Bseq=649 Chapter IV page 557]
**Chapter V "Russia February 28, 1920- March 19, 1921".[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112005146078?urlappend=%3Bseq=75 Contents] page lxxi, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112005146078?urlappend=%3Bseq=771 Chapter V page 679]
