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*[http://www.gwpda.org/naval/caspian.htm "The Royal Navy in the Caspian Sea 1918-1920"] by John Guard gwpda.org
*Series ''Peace Handbooks'':'' Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office'': No 54 [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924065780763?urlappend=%3Bseq=395 ''Caucasia]'' HMSO 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available [https://www.wdl.org/en/item/9155 World Digital Library] a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, contributed by Library of Congress.
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofasiami01greauoft ''A Handbook of Asia Minor: Volume I General. July 1919''] by [Great Britain] Naval Staff Intelligence Department. Archive.org. Note, maps at the end of the book are not included.
*Turkish Official Histories, Turkish language: [https://www.msb.govarchive.trorg/ArsivAskeriTarihdetails/icerikvocabulariesengl00grearich/birinci-dunya-harbi-serisi Birinci Dünya Harbi Serisi / World War I Series] from Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Turkey. Includes maps. If required use [https:page/n5/translate.google.com.aumode/#view=home&op=translate&sl=tr&tl=en Google Translate] for the website (not histories). In addition to the Army histories, there is also item 15 2up ''Birinci Dünya HarbiVocabularies: English, Arabic, Türk Hava Harekatı C.9'' ''Air Operations''Persian, Turkish, Armenian, and item 16 ''Birinci Dünya Harbinde Türk HarbiKurdish, Deniz Harekâtı C.8Syriac'' ''Naval Operations''. Although in respect of another theatre of war the following article discusses ] Compiled by the scope and extent of some Geographical Section of the Turkish Official Histories from page 49 [http://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/download/806/928/ "Wasp or Mosquito? The Arab Revolt in Turkish Military History"] by Edward J. Erickson ''British Journal for Military History''Naval Intelligence Division, Volume 4Naval Staff, Issue 3, July 2018, pages 44-59Admiralty. HMSO. A download to your computer1920 Archive.org
→Regimental and personal accounts, Army
<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.
Constantinople was the Headquarters of the Army of the Black Sea.
An ''Official History'' was written about Constantinople titled ''The Occupation of Constantinople 1918–1923'' by Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds. Originally written in 1944, it was not finally published until 2010 by Imperial War Museum/Naval&Military Press.<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/occupation-of-constantinople/ ''The Occupation of Constantinople 1918–1923''] by Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds. Originally written in 1944. Naval & Military Press.</ref> Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01019675592. Also see the [[Norperforce#Historical books online|online account below]], by General Sir Charles Harington, Commander of the British Forces in Turkey from October 1920.
A postal history and associated military history of the British and Indian occupation forces is also available, ''The Postal History of the Army of the Black Sea : 1918 - 1923'' by John Slingsby.<ref> Description of [https://web.archive.org/web/20130803022058/http://www.rossitertrust.com/bookblacksea.shtml ''The Postal History of the Army of the Black Sea : 1918 - 1923''] by John Slingsby. rossitertrust.com, now an archived webpage. </ref> Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01013055463
The naval history is included in ''The Mediterranean Fleet, 1919–1929'' edited by Paul Halpern 2011. A publication of the Navy Records Society Volume 158, (with online access for members), also available at the British Library UIN: BLL01015816949 . [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=_AmiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 Sample pages, Google Books] . *HMS Julius was the administrative name given to a naval unit set up in Constantinople that was responsible for running harbour service craft (under the direction of the RN Captain of the Port). This arrangement followed the signing of the Treaty of Mudros (which ended Ottoman participation in the Great War)<ref>KizmeRD. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/288074-hms-julius-seeking-information/?do=findComment&comment=2975081 HMS Julius - Seeking Information] ''Great War Forum'' 20 January 2021. Retrieved 20 January 2021. </ref>
Some marriage records for British Army personnel during this period are held by the UK [[General Register Office]]. There is an Index of records known as "GRO Army Marriages Within British Lines 1914-1925", part of the British Army Overseas Indexes. It also appears there may be some unindexed marriage records. See [[Chaplains Returns]] for details.
The [[29th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry|89th Punjab Regiment]], after serving in the Caucasus, then served at Constantinople with the Army of the Black Sea.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20140221014448/http://www.hcindia-au.org/pdf/The%20Indian%20Army%20at%20Gallipoli%201915.pdf "The Indian Army at Gallipoli 1915"], page 2, condensed from a paper presented by Sqn Ldr Rana TS Chhina (Retd) at a conference organised by the Australian War Memorial in August 2010. Archived page, website of the High Commission of India in Australia</ref>
British military personnel (Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air force) in Constantinople, the Mediterranean and Turkey appear in the 1921 England and Wales Census, taken on 19 June 1921. See [[British Army#1921 England and Wales Census|British Army - 1921 England and Wales Census]].
==Records at the National Archives, Kew==
*[http://www.kaiserscross.com/304501/629422.html "The East Persia Cordon and the Sarhad Operations : 1915 – 1917"] by Harry Fecitt c March 2018 from Harry's Sideshows, kaiserscross.com
*Article [https://web.archive.org/web/20131123060403/http://jfredmacdonald.com/worldwarone1914-1918/postarmistice-18baluchastan-baku.html "From Baluchastan to Baku:
The Significance of the Struggle for Central Asia"] by Edwin E. Slosson ''The Independent'', August 31, 1918. jfredmacdonald.com, archive.org link.
*[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/61744802.pdf "Imperial Power and Dictatorship: Britain and the Rise of Reza Shah, 1921-1926"] (pdf) by Michael Zirinsky ''International Journal of Middle East Studies'', 24 (1992), 639-64. core.ac.uk. Also available to read online on [https://www.jstor.org/stable/164440 JSTOR.org]. Register and read for free, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]
*[http://summit.sfu.ca/item/8579 '''Britannia has ruled here' : Transcaucasia and considerations of Imperial defence in Lord Curzon's search for a Near Eastern settlement, 1918-1923''] by Sean Kelly. 2003 M.A. Thesis, Simon Fraser University, Canada. Link to a download.
*''British Military Involvement in Transcaspia (1918-1919)'' by Michael Sargent April 2004 Conflict Studies Research Centre [http://www.css.ethz.ch/content/specialinterest/gess/cis/center-for-securities-studies/en/services/digital-library/publications/publication.html/87659 Link to pdf download], [https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/87659/04_apr.pdf pdf ]. Includes the Malleson Mission.
*[http://www.visions.az/history,en/news/151/cf8230fa/ "Britain's Azerbaijan Policy (November 1917 - September 1918)"] by Prof. Musa Qasimly ''Visions of Azerbaijan'' Spring 2006, Volume 1.1, pages 38-43.
*[http://smallwarsjournal.com/jrnl/art/fighting-a-small-war-during-the-great-war "Fighting a Small War during The Great War: British Strategic Planning and Operations in Central Asia, 1917-1919"] by Frederick Dotolo. ''Small Wars Journal'', with link to a pdf download of an interim version of the article, February 7, 2008. Direct [http://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/journal/docs-temp/34-dotolo.pdf?q=mag/docs-temp/34-dotolo.pdf pdf download] which depending on your browser, you may need to locate in your downloads folder.
*[https://ptdockyardat.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/navalactionsofthercw.pdf "Naval Actions of the Russian Civil War: Part 1"] by Simon Stokes (elsewhere referred to as Part 1 and 2), possibly c 2010. Includes a section on the Caspian Sea from page 14 [https://ptdockyard.com/narrow-seas/rules/ ''P.T. Dockyard''] website.
*[http://www.gwpda.org/naval/caspian.htm "The Royal Navy in the Caspian Sea 1918-1920"] by John Guard gwpda.org
*[https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/26041/thebriti.pdf ''The British Intervention in South Russia 1918-1920''] by Lauri Kopisto 2011 Academic Dissertation University of Helsinki.
*[http://www.slideshare.net/TomSutton2/thesiseditjune14 ''Red Sand: The Canadian Experience in Persia and Transcaucasia, 1918''] by Thomas Stanley Sutton. A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts The University of New Brunswick, April 2012. slideshare.net
*[https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Portals/7/combat-studies-institute/csi-books/ArtOfWar-At-the-limit-of-complexity-british-military-operations-in-nort-persia-and-the-caucasus-1918.pdf ''At the Limit of Complexity: British Military Operations in North Persia and the Caucasus 1918''] by Roland P. Minez, Major, US Army Fort Leavenworth, Kansas . December 2018. Series: ''Art of War Papers''. armyupress.army.mil
*[http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Georgia/Lang_9a.htm "Independent Georgia (1918-1921)"] by David Marshall Lang (excerpt from the book ''A Modern History of Georgia'' 1962, see below.) Includes maps which are additional to the text quoted. States that British and Indian troops, highly unpopular with the Georgians, were withdrawn to a British military district based on the port of Batumi (Batoum/Batum) conflicts.rem33.com
*[http://www.jstor.org/stable/260221 "British Secret Missions in Turkestan, 1918-19"] by L. P. Morris ''Journal of Contemporary History'' Vol. 12, No. 2 (April 1977), pp. 363-379. jstor.org. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].
*[http://faculty.washington.edu/dwaugh/ethertonatkashgar2007.pdf ''Etherton at Kashgar: Rhetoric and Reality in the History of the “Great Game”''] by Daniel C. Waugh 2007. faculty.washington.edu. The Kashgar consulate was under the supervision of the Foreign and Political Department of the Government of India.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304191023/http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/eBooks/Articles/Dunsterville's%20Adventure%20Arslanian.pdf "Dunsterville's Adventures: A Reappraisal"] by Artin H Arslanian, ''International Journal of Middle East Studies Volume 12, No 2 (September 1980)'', 199-216 intersci.ss.uci.edu, now archived. Also available [https://www.jstor.org/stable/162892 jstor.org]. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].
*"The Battle For Baku (May-September 1918): A Peculiar Episode In The History Of The Caucasus" by Bülent Gökay ''The Turkish Yearbook of International Relations Volume 25'' 1995 (Research Center for International Political and Economic Relations, Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University) [http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12575/65481 Link to a pdf download] dspace.ankara.edu.tr and [https://dergipark.org.tr/en/pub/tyir/issue/50029/641292 link to a download] dergipark.org.tr. [http://www.politics.ankara.edu.tr/yearbookdizin/dosyalar/MMTY/25/2_bulent_gokay.pdf Additional/alternative pdf] politics.ankara.edu.tr. Also published in ''Middle Eastern Studies 34 (1998)'', pages 30-50.
*[https://docsweb.googlearchive.comorg/web/20131121203934/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww://www.conflicts.rem33.com%2F%20images%2F%20Azerbaijan%2F%20CAJ_vol8/images/Azerbaijan/CAJ_vol8.3_13_e.pdf "Dunsterforce: A Case Study of Coalition Warfare in the Middle East, 1918-1919"] by Timothy C. Winegard ''Canadian Army Journal Vol. 8.3 (Fall 2005)'', pp. 93-109. (html version), conflicts.rem33.com *[https://web.archive.org/web/2013112120393420160428222334/http://www.conflictsvisions.rem33.comaz/imagesen/Azerbaijannews/CAJ_vol8.3_13_e.pdf pdf] conflicts.rem33.com *[http://www.visions.az99/history,99afcf2df0/ "British Police in Baku"] by Tahir Behbudov ''Visions of Azerbaijan'' Summer 2006, Volume 1.2, pages 48-55, archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170508035644/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-land/general-interest/175-dunster-force.html 'Dunsterforce' On The Caucasian Front In The Great War] by Dr David Payne 10 October 2008 “’The Western Front Association”, now an archived webpage.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170427163350/http://westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-on-land/other-war-theatres/3305-dunsterforce-part-1.html "Dunsterforce - part 1"] by Harry Fecitt 29 September 2013 "The Western Front Association", now an archived webpage. Includes a [http://www.flickr.com/photos/westernfrontassociation/sets/72157636001859786/with/9994778724 set of photographs] on flickr.com. [http://www.flickr.com/photos/westernfrontassociation/ Further images] on flickr.com sourced by [https://web.archive.org/web/20170426074000/http://westernfrontassociation.com/great-war-people/photography-original/3336-dunsterforce.html WFA], now an archived webpage.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200918125218/http://www.visions.az/en/news/661/cc10060a/ "Azerbaijan at War"] by Alum Bati ''Visions of Azerbaijan'' July-August 2015, archived.:Part 2 [https://web.archive.org/web/20200204013332/http://www.visions.az/en/news/686/ecbd8399/ "1918 - Azerbaijan at War"] by Alum Bati ''Visions of Azerbaijan'' September-October 2015, archived. With a slide show of photographs.*[https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/chaos-in-the-caucasus/ "Chaos in the Caucasus"] by Chris Baker 16 February 2023 longlongtrail.co.uk. Also published in the Great War Group’s journal, “Salient Points.” The story of George Frederick Handel Gracey who was posted to the Caucasus Military Agency, the intelligence section of the British Military Mission at Tiflis, and James Douglas who was an ASC Ford car driver for this group, who were captured by the Bolsheviks October 1918 and later exchanged May 1919.*Lectures from the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, on YouTube video. Note audio only.**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01PtxVAGHBs "Failed Intervention: Britain in the Trans-Caucasus 1918-20"] by Dr Alex Marshal (should be Marshall) 22 March 2006. (44 minutes). “Why British intervention in this region failed, and the roles and attitudes of key political and military personnel”.**[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsQsmg9vOMM "The Bolshevik Revolution and the North Caucasus, 1917-30 A Clash of Civilizations?"] by Dr Alex Marshall 31 October 2007. (53 minutes)
*Desert Column: The Australian Light Horse Studies Centre
**[http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog?topic_id=1113457 The Battle of Baku Azerbaijan, 26 August - 14 September 1918: Contents]. Includes Outline, Maps and links to Accounts
:[http://www.historynet.com/biplane-battle-flying-against-the-bolsheviks-during-russias-civil-war.htm "Biplane Battle: Flying Against the Bolsheviks During Russia’s Civil War"] by Derek O'Connor. historynet.com. Originally published in the September 2007 issue of ''Aviation History'' Magazine. Four Sopwith Camels of B Flight, No. 47 Squadron, Royal Air Force,
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140726042646/http://www.mespot.co.uk/journal/21.12.18.shtml Grandpa’s Journal, 18 December 1921, scroll to 19 December 1921] refers to the troops which were employed on the Persian Lines of communication up to April 1921… 500 miles long extending through Persia to the Caspian Sea from [https://web.archive.org/web/20181228150313/http://mespot.co.uk/ Grandpa’s Journal], now an archived website. Harry James Goulter Pearman was with the Army Audit Staff in Mesopotamia.
*Podcast Two videos ''The Adventures of Dunsterforce'' presented by Indiana Neidell. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01PtxVAGHBs 6LExMogcEh0 "Failed Intervention: Britain in the Trans-Caucasus 1918-20The Hush Hush Army" Part 1]25 Dec 2017. Lecture by Dr[https://www. Alex Marshall 22 March 2006youtube. com/watch?v=fpjiUwWg-zM&t=32s "The Defence Academy of the United KingdomBaku" Part 2] 2 Jan 2018. “Why British intervention in this region failed, and the roles and attitudes of key political and military personnel”. Although on YouTube, this is an audio presentation only (44 minutes)by ''The Great War''.
*Download a video [http://www.awm.gov.au/collection/F00051/ With the Dunster Force, Persia and Baku] Australian War Memorial. Also on [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZjT1pjtDZE YouTube] (appears to be shorter version)
*Video [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060008178 Baku - The Occupation By 'Dunsterforce' 17th August To 14th September 1918] Imperial War Museums
*Interviews. Imperial War Museums
**Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80011685 1990 interview with Henley Charles Claxton] British seaman. Includes service aboard HMS Swallow in Black Sea, 1919-1920. Reels 4-6. Catalogue number 11945. In most of the reels there is a delay before the sound commences, of up to approximately one minute.
** Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80020088 undated recollections of George Michael Clarkson], Royal Navy 1915-1937, includes HMS Iron Duke in Black Sea, 1919, Reel 2. Imperial War Museums Sound Catalogue number 21283. There is also another series on the IWM website catalogue number 679, consisting of 48 reels recorded by Clarkson in 1975.
** Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80008075 1984 interview with William Frank Howard] British boy seaman and seaman served aboard HMS St George in Mediterranean based at Imbros and Salonika, Greece, 1916-1918; served in Greece and Turkey, 1922-1924. Catalogue number 8275.
**Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80004569 1979 interview with Jack Briscoe Masefield] British officer served with 7th Bn Gloucestershire Regt at Gallipoli, 1915, and in Mesopotamia and Persia, 1917-1918; served with South Russian Mission, 1919-1921; served with Allied Police Commission in Turkey, 1921-1923 . 4609 Catalogue number 4609.**Listen to the [https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/80007060 1983 Interview with Lendon Fitz Payne] British NCO served with Royal Engineers Signal Service and Royal Corps of Signals on Western Front and in Russia, 1915-1923. Includes posting to Constantinople. Catalogue number 7256.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4SbP95FkT0C&pg=PA284 Bibliography of Memoirs and other First Hand accounts] page 284 ''The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921: An Annotated Bibliography'' by Jonathan Smele Google Books.
*[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/49601/HAIDAR%20PASHA%20CEMETERY Haidar Pasha Cemetery], located in a suburb of Istanbul. cwgc.org. ( Also see Maps below, in particular the map of the Skutari area). Includes a Memorial and Addenda panel erected to commemorate Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War who died fighting in South Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and in post Armistice operations in Russia and Transcaucasia, whose graves are not known, together with others buried in cemeteries in South Russia and Transcaucasia whose graves can no longer be maintained. Those commemorated include Lieut.-Colonel Geoffrey Davis Pike, head of the ‘Caucasus Military Agency’, killed, probably executed, by the Bolsheviks in August 1918. <ref>medalmaniac [Les] [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/188176-col-gd-pike-mc-9th-gurkhas-kia-caucasus-15-august-1918/?do=findComment&comment=2458361 Col G.D. Pike MC, 9th Gurkhas, KIA Caucasus 15 August 1918] ''Great War Forum'' 1 November 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2018.</ref>
*[http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2014/11/11/indians-in-the-middle-east-the-forgotten-soldiers-of-the-first-world-war/ Indians in the Middle East: The forgotten soldiers of the First World War] by Vedika Kant. Mentions Indian Soldiers buried in Istanbul’s Haydarpaşa English Cemetery. Although the text says these are POW deaths, a comment by Adil dated August 17, 2015 says “The Haidar Pasha Memorial largely commemorates Indians who died post the Armistice and most casualties are from the Army of the Black Sea”. LSE South Asia Centre, London School of Economics.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190317150417/http://www.atam.gov.tr/dergi/sayi-42/british-policy-on-the-fate-of-constantinople-and-the-allied-occupation-of-the-city-on-march-16-1920 "British Policy on the Fate of Constantinople and the Allied Occupation of the City on March 16 [1920<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Dr. Neşe Özden. Scroll down to English version. Ataturk Research Centre.atam.gov.tr, now archived.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170721125329/http://tankmuseum.org/year-news/bovnews53957 Tanks In Russia During The Civil War] Tank Museum news item 24th March 2017, archived. The Tank Museum, Bovington, Dorset contains a a collection of documents and photographs belonging to Major H S Sayer, relating to the Tank Detachment sent, for training purposes, by Britain during the Russian Civil War, which set up base at Taganrog, South Russia in 1919. Includes a Nominal Roll of Officers, NCO's and Men of the South Russian Tank Detachment.
*[https://hubpages.com/education/Churchills-Private-War-British-Intervention-in-South-Russia--1919 "Churchill's Private War: British Intervention in South Russia, 1919"] hubpages.com. An extract from [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=aYZnJcAU0EkC&pg=PP1 ''Stamping Out the Virus: Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1918-1920''] by Perry Moore 2002. Google Books ( sample pages only). Original source for Holman's report not available, but possibly TNA WO 33/971 ''Final report of the British Military Mission, South Russia'' by Major-General Sir H.C. Holman.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131204181612/http://orbat.com/site/history/historical/uk/ops1919-39.html British Military Operations 1919-1939] by Graham Watson is a selection of orders of battle of various operations carried out by the British Army. Scroll to the sections "South Russia & Black Sea 1919" and "Turkey 1922". orbat.com, now archived.
===Maps===
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-234271751/view Map of parts of Iraq, Persia & Kurdistan to illustrate movements of squadron wireless stations] compiled and drawn by Henry J. Russell. Map originally published as endpapers in ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia : the Story of Anzacs in Asia'' editor Keast Burke 1927. nla.gov.au
** 1922 [https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-3b591b14j Plan d'ensemble de la ville de Constantinople] maps.princeton.edu. Same map, published by Guédik-Pacha, [https://brbl-dl.library.yale.edu/vufind/Record/4678137 library.yale.edu]
**[https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&startRecord=0&maximumRecords=50&page=1&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22Pervititch%20Jacques%20Stamoul%22%29%20sortby%20dc.title%2Fsort.ascending 1923-24 Maps of sectors of Stamoul, part of Constantinople] Author : Jacques Pervititch. Publisher : S.P.I. Fratelli Haïm (Constantinople). [https://gallica.bnf.fr/services/engine/search/sru?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.2&startRecord=0&maximumRecords=50&page=1&query=%28gallica%20all%20%22Pervititch%20Jacques%22%29%20sortby%20dc.title%2Fsort.ascending Other maps from the same author, including other parts of Constantinople]. All from gallica.bnf.fr.
*[https://www.archnet.org/collections/1569 Insurance Maps of Turkey and Istanbul] Fire insurance maps issued by Charles E. Goad, a London-based civil engineer c 1905. Includes Constantinople and Smyrna in Turkey, and Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt. archnet.org
===Historical books online===
====Official histories, despatches and reports====
*[http://archive.org/stream/furthercorrespon00greauoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Persia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament April 1914''] 1914 Archive.org
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000142 ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'']. A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly in 1929. British Library India Office Records IOR/L/MIL/17/15/28 on Qatar Digital Library. Download also available.
:Also available in a reprint edition,<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/operations-in-persia-official-history-of-the-great-war-other-theatres/ ''Operations In Persia. Official History Of The Great War''] by Brig.-Gen. F. J. Moberly, reprint of confidential edition (original pub 1929) Naval & Military Press.</ref> which in turn is available online on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8bwp9VsLNdZZGR3Jt ''Operations in Persia''] (located in World War II/Military booksBooks-located by the Search/Iran).*[httpshttp://archivehdl.handle.orgnet/details2027/edentoarmageddon0000ford uc1.$b746029?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''Eden to Armageddon History Of The Great War: World War I in the Middle EastThe Campaign In Mesopotamia 1914-1918: Volume IV''] by Roger Ford 2010. Includes F J Moberly 1927 [httpshttp://archivehdl.handle.orgnet/details2027/edentoarmageddon0000ford/page/118/mode/2up Part II "The Caucasus, Armeniauc1.$b746029?urlappend=%3Bseq=16 Contents], Anatolia and Persia] page 119. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[httpshttp://archivehdl.orghandle.net/stream2027/inuc1.ernet.dli.2015.211243/2015.211243.History-Of#page/n529/mode/2up "The 12th Pioneers Machine Gun Section in Eastern Persia"$b746029?urlappend=%3Bseq=465 Index] by Major E P YeatsHathi Trust Digital Library. Appendix 9, page 404 ''History Of The Bombay Pioneers 1777(For Volumes I-1933'' by Lieut. Colonel W B P Tugwell 1938. Archive.orgIII, Public Library of India Collection. Covers the period from July 1915 and includes participation in Brigadier General an alternative online version for Vol Dyer's 1916 campaignIV, see next book.*[https://archive.org/details/raidersofsarhadb00dyerrich ''The Raiders of the Sarhad being the account of a [Mesopotamia Campaign of Arms and Bluff against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi border during the Great War''] by Brigadier General REH Dyer 1921 Archive.org. This campaign took place in 1916.*[https://archive.org/details/warrevolutionina00pric/page/2 ''War and Revolution in Asiatic Russia''] by M Philips Price (Special Correspondent of the ''Manchester Guardian'') 1918 Archive.org.
*British Library India Office Records on Qatar Digital Library. Read online (book reader is somewhat slow) or download. A selection includes
**''German War, Persia''. Multiple digitised files IOR/L/PS/10/478 to IOR/L/PS/10/493. Many are c 1915. Probably the easiest way to locate all these files, is to use the search term IOR/L/PS/10/478 in the [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1550894559129&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true British Library Archives and Manuscripts Search], then for the record displayed, click on Browse this collection. Then navigate, using the left hand side of the webpage to the other record items, which include links to to the digital versions.
**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025595823.0x00000a pages 9-16] ''Central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, &c. Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic Movements and connected information. Issue No. 3. Supplement. 1st to 31st December 1919'' IOR/L/PS/18/A186 . Note that currently (2019/02/12) digital images are in reverse order. Includes Transcaspia and Trans-Caucasia.
**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway'']. File created 8 May 1922. IOR/L/PS/18/C208. It includes a brief description of these regions and outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests.
*[httphttps://hdlwww.handlethegazette.netco.uk/London/issue/202731287/uc1supplement/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.$b746029?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 Mesopotamia and NW Persia (page 4743) ''History Of The Great WarLondon Gazette'' 8 April 1919 Supplement: 31287 Page: The Campaign In Mesopotamia 1914-19184739 : Volume IV''] by F J Moberly 1927 [httphttps://hdlwww.handlethegazette.netco.uk/London/issue/202731813/uc1.$b746029?urlappend=%3Bseq=16 Contentssupplement/2877 Despatch from Major General Sir George F MacMunn], officiating Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, describing events since 1st January 1919, including North Persia, and Southern and Cental Kurdistan, for various operations between March and September 1919. ''The London Gazette'' 5 March 1920 Supplement: 31813 Page: 2877. The actual pages are dated 8 March 1920.:[httphttps://hdlwww.handlethegazette.netco.uk/London/issue/32379/2027page/uc1.$b746029?urlappend=%3Bseq=465 Index5321 Four Despatches from the Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force] Hathi Trust Digital Library: Despatch No 1, dated 17th January 1920 from MacMunn, covering the period November 1919 to 17th January 1920.(For Volumes IDespatches from Lieutenant-IIIGeneral Haldane, covering the periods: 18th January 1920 to 30th June 1920 in Mesopotamia and an alternative online version for Vol IV, see NW Persia.[Despatch No 2 dated 23rd August 1920. Page 5323]; 1st July 1820 to 19th October 1920 [Mesopotamia Campaign]Despatch No 3 dated 8th November 1920, page 5329]Despatch No 4, dated 8th February 1921 (page 5347)''The London Gazette'' 1 July 1921 Issue: 32379 Page:5321.
*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32184/supplement/159 "Despatch from General Sir G.F. Milne Commanding in Chief, the Army of The Black Sea dated 11 August 1920"] ''The London Gazette Supplement'' 7 January 1921 Supplement: 32184 pages: 159-175. From the date of the signature of the Armistice with Turkey to the date of the signature of the Turkish Peace Treaty (10th August 1920). Indian Army regiments mentioned: [[28th Light Cavalry]], [[7th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|19th Punjabis]], 1/[[21st Regiment of Punjab Infantry |21st Punjabis]], 1/[[ 25th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|25th Punjabis]] and 1/[[4th Regiment of Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force |54th Sikhs]].
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32192/page/368 List of those mentioned for distinguished and gallant services] ''The London Gazette'' 11 January 1921 Issue: 32192 page: 368 with an addition [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32655/supplement/2583 bottom of page 2583] 29 March 1922 Supplement:32655 Page:2583
*:Additional Indian Army regiments mentioned: [[10th Regiment of Jat Infantry|1/10th Jats]], [[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|2/39th Garhwal Rifles]], [[2nd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent|1/95th Russell's Infantry]], [[119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment)|119th Infantry]] and [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry|67th Punjabis]]
*[https://archive.org/details/whiterussianawar0000brou/page/n5/mode/2up ''White Russian awards to British & Commonwealth servicemen during the Allied intervention in Russia 1918-1920 : with a roll of honour''] by Ray Brough 1991. Includes South Russia. British Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/notesongeography0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up ''Notes on the geography of Asia Minor I.D.1104''] by [Great Britain] Admiralty War Staff Intelligence Division June 1916 Archive.org. Asia Minor is another name for Anatolia, which constitutes most of the territory of contemporary Turkey.
:[https://archive.org/search?query=%22A+Handbook+of+Asia+Minor+%22 ''A Handbook of Asia Minor''] Volume 1 C.B. 847A, Volume 2 C.B 847B, Volume 3 Part 2 C.B.847C(2), Volume 3 Part 3 C.B. 847c, published c 1919 by [Great Britain] Naval Staff Intelligence Department. Archive.org. Missing Volume 4 Part 2, the other Parts were not published. Note, at least for Volume 1, maps at the end of the book are not included.
:[https://archive.org/details/b32168792_0001/mode/2up ''Turkey Volume 1 B.R.507 Geographical Hand Book Series''] April 1942 and [https://archive.org/details/b32168792_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Turkey Volume 2 B.R 507A Geographical Hand Book Series''] March 1943 by [Great Britain] Naval Intelligence Division. Archive.org
*Series ''Peace Handbooks'':'' Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office'': No 54 [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924065780763?urlappend=%3Bseq=395 ''Caucasia]'' HMSO 1920. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/peace-handbooks-v9-russian-empire/page/n395/mode/2up Archive.org version]
*Turkish Official Histories, Turkish language: [https://www.msb.gov.tr/ArsivAskeriTarih/icerik/birinci-dunya-harbi-serisi Birinci Dünya Harbi Serisi / World War I Series] from Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Turkey. Includes maps. If required use [https://translate.google.com.au/#view=home&op=translate&sl=tr&tl=en Google Translate] for the website (not histories). In addition to the Army histories, there is also item 15 ''Birinci Dünya Harbi, Türk Hava Harekatı C.9'' ''Air Operations'', and item 16 ''Birinci Dünya Harbinde Türk Harbi, Deniz Harekâtı C.8'' ''Naval Operations''. Although in respect of another theatre of war the following article discusses the scope and extent of some of the Turkish Official Histories from page 49 [http://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/download/806/928/ "Wasp or Mosquito? The Arab Revolt in Turkish Military History"] by Edward J. Erickson ''British Journal for Military History'', Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2018, pages 44-59. A download to your computer.
====General histories etc====
*[https://archive.org/details/warrevolutionina00pric/page/2 ''War and Revolution in Asiatic Russia''] by M Philips Price (Special Correspondent of the ''Manchester Guardian'') 1918 Archive.org.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014621810?urlappend=%3Bseq=17 ''In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919-1920: being the record of a journey to South Russia, the Crimea, Armenia, Georgia and Baku in 1919 and 1920''] by C. E. Bechhofer (full name: Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts). 1971 reprint edition, originally published 1921. HathiTrust Digital Library. The author was a British free-lance journalist. [https://archive.org/details/carl-bechhofer-in-denikins-russia-and-the-caucasus-1919-1920-1921-libgen.lc Archive.org version] 1921.
:[https://archive.org/stream/wandererslogbein00robeiala#page/154/mode/2up "Russia in Ruins"] Chapter VIII, page 155 ''A Wanderer's Log: being some memories of travel in India, the Far East, Russia, the Mediterranean & elsewhere'' by C. E. Bechhofer 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/persia005437mbp#page/n161/mode/2up "Persia and the Great War"] page 154 ''Persia'' by Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org
:[http://www.jstor.org/stable/20028292 "The British Flag on the Caspian: A Side-Show of the Great War"] by Percy Sykes ''Foreign Affairs'' Vol. 2, No. 2 (Dec. 15, 1923), pp. 282-294. jstor.org. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000009934342?urlappend=%3Bseq=50 "The Advance to the Caspian"] pages 24-44 ''Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920'' by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409340592554 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition. Also published under the title ''Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89241 ''The White Armies of Russia: A Chronicle of Counter-Revolution and Allied Intervention''] by George Stewart 1933 Archive.org. Includes four chapters on South Russia.
*[httphttps://archive.org/stream/HIST3750GreatConspiracyAgainstRussia/HIST%203750%20Great%20Conspiracy%20Against%20Russia#page/n37/mode/2up "Southern Campaign"] pages 30-32, "Chapter Vi The War of Intervention", ''The Great Conspiracy Against Russia'' by Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn 1946 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.227014/mode/2up ''Russia and the West in Iran 1918-1948: A Study in Big-Power Rivalry''] by George Lenczowski 1949. Chapters One and particularly Two, include the British involvement. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/caucasian-battlefields-a-history-of-the-wars-on-the-turco-caucasian-border-1828-1921/page/456/mode/2up "Chapter XLI The Turkish Invasion of Transcaucasia, 1918"] pages 457-496 ''Caucasian Battlefields: A History of Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921'' by W E D Allen and the late Paul Muratoff [Pavel Pavlovich Muratov] 1953. Archive.org. Contains some references to the British at Baku.*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/inumdp.3200000993434239015000671613?urlappend=%3Bseq=50 258 The British in Georgia], page 216, Chapter X, "Independent Georgia 1918-1921" from ''A Modern History of Soviet Georgia'' by David Marshall Lang 1962 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/modernhistoryofs0000lang/page/216/mode/2up Page 216] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library version. See External links above for this text plus maps which are not from the text.*[https://archive.org/details/volunteerarmyall0000brin/page/8 ''The Advance Volunteer Army and Allied intervention in South Russia, 1917-1921; a study in the politics and diplomacy of the Russian Civil War''] by George A Brinkley 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/anglosovietrelat0000ullm/page/314/mode/2up "The Anglo-Russian Rivalry in the CaspianEast"] pages 24, page 315 ''Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 3: The Anglo-44 Soviet Accord''Loyaltiesby Richard H. Ullman 1972. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes "Persia" Chapter IX page 349.*[https: //archive.org/details/britisharmycrisi0000jeff/page/132/mode/2up "Persia and Mesopotamia; a personal "] Chapter 8 page 133 ''The British Army and historical recordthe Crisis of Empire, Volume II 19171918-22'' by Keith Jeffery 1984. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/marian-kent-the-great-powers-and-the-end-of-the-ottoman-empire-taylor-francis-2005/page/164/mode/2up "Chapter 7. Great Britain and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1900-192023"] by Marian Kent page 165 ''The Great Powers and the End of the Ottoman Empire'' edited by Marian Kent 2005 Reprint of 2nd edition, first published 1984, 2nd edition 1996. Archive.org. *[https://archive.org/details/declinefallofott0000palm/page/220 "Germany’s Ally"] Chapter 15, page 221 ''The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire'' by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931Alan Palmer 1994. Hathi Trust Digital The political situation during the WW1 period until 1923 when the Allied occupation of Constantinople came to an end. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also available as *[https://archive.org/details/contributions-in-military-studies-edward-j.-erickson-ordered-to-die-a download from -history-of/page/n3/mode/2up ''Ordered To Die: A History Of The Ottoman Army In The First World War''] by Edward J Erickson 2001. Archive.org*''The Russian Civil War'' by Evan Mawdsley 2007, first published 2005. [https://archive.org/details/russiancivilwar0000mawd/page/4 File 1], [https://archive.org/details/russiancivilwar00evan/page/7 File 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford ''Eden to Armageddon : World War I in the Middle East''] by Roger Ford 2010. Includes [httphttps://wwwarchive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford/page/118/mode/2up Part II "The Caucasus, Armenia, Anatolia and Persia] page 119. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.kurdipedia*[https://archive.org/?lngdetails/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/mode/2up ''The Fall of 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. ====Medical===8&q=2013110409340592554 Kurdipedia*[http://jramc.bmj.orgcom/content/36/2/101.full.pdf "Medical History of Trans-Caucasia in so far as It Affects an Army in the Field"] 1936 editionby Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Also published under Henderson ''Journal of the title Royal Army Medical Corps''Mesopotamia1921;36:2 pages 101-108.====Regimental and personal accounts, Army====*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.211243/2015.211243.History-Of#page/n529/mode/2up "The 12th Pioneers Machine Gun Section in Eastern Persia"] by Major E P Yeats. Appendix 9, 1917page 404 ''History Of The Bombay Pioneers 1777-1920; 1933'' by Lieut. Colonel W B P Tugwell 1938. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Covers the period from July 1915 and includes participation in Brigadier General Dyer's 1916 campaign, see next book.*[https://archive.org/details/raidersofsarhadb00dyerrich ''The Raiders of the Sarhad being the account of a Clash Campaign of LoyaltiesArms and Bluff against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi border during the Great War''] by Brigadier General REH Dyer 1921 Archive.org. This campaign took place in 1916.
*[http://www.jstor.org/stable/1780395 "The Road from Baghdad to Baku"] by G. S. F. Napier ''The Geographical Journal'' Vol. 53, No. 1 (Jan., 1919), pp. 1-16. jstor.org. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/adventuresofduns00dunsrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Adventures of Dunsterforce''] by L C Dunsterville 1920 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n121/mode/2up "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919"] page 103.
**[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n107/mode/2up Page 89] mentions the Indian Army in Anatolia, after the war.
*[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.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[24th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|24th Punjabis]]; [[45th Regiment of Sikh Infantry|45th Rattray’s Sikhs]]; [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|127th Baluchis]] on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website).
:For other Indian Army regimental histories, see [[Corps of Guides, Punjab Frontier Force|The Guides (Cavalry)]]; [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]; [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]].*[https://booksarchive.google.com.auorg/details/worcestershirereggreatwar/page/3/mode/books?id=oHa-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA503 “The 2up "The Caucasus"] page 503 ''Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War, Volume 2'' by Capt H. FitzM. Stacke, reprint edition, originally published 1928Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/historysurreyyeomanry/page/n13/mode/2up ''The History and War Records of the Surrey Yeomanry (Queen Mary's Regt.) 1797-1928''] by E. D. Harrison-Ainsworth 1928. Archive. Google Booksorg. Includes Russia (Caucasus). *[http://www.archive.org/stream/withpersianexped00donouoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''With the Persian Expedition''] by Martin Henry Donohoe 1919 Archive.org. The author was a Special Service Officer with 'Dunsterforce'. There was a reprint edition c 2020 with the title ''The Race to Tabriz''.*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn5018499 ''Stalky’s Forlorn Hope'' ] by Captain Stanley George Savige (Australian Army Officer) 1919 is available as a [http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn5018499 pdf download] from the National Library of Australia. It is also available as a [http://alh-research.tripod.com/Light_Horse/index.blog/2055843/the-battle-of-baku-azerbaijan-26-august-to-14-september-1918-captain-sg-savige-stalky146s-forlorn-hope/ transcription from Chapter 1] from the website "Desert Column: The Australian Light Horse Studies Centre". (Also on the archived website [http://web.archive.org/web/20090515142319/http://www.firstaif.info/stalky/0-stalky-index.htm First AIF. Includes the Foreword)]. Lionel Dunsterville was the model for Kipling's character 'Stalky'.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi205edinuoft#page/284/mode/2up/ "Further Adventures of the Armoured Cars: Persia and Baku"] pages 285-297 ''Blackwood's Magazine'' Volume 205, January-June 1919. Archive.org. The author elsewhere is stated to be A. H. Ruston, who was Temp. Major, Machine Gun Corps (Motor). Allpress (Alpress/Alpres) Harold Ruston was awarded the DSO for actions near Baku on 26 August 1918, [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31583/supplement/12227 ''London Gazette'' entry].
**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://sci-hub.se/10.1177/0968344517696528 "Encounters on the Eastern Front: The Royal Naval Armoured Car Division in Russia 1915–1920"] by Charlotte Alston ''War in History'' 2017 pages 1-26. sci-hub.se</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/2017052100015620210212013836/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 Lord1981, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008443007 .</ref>**<ref>[https://websnake43.archivewebs.orgcom/web/20120919161000tsar-s-british-troops "The Tsar's British Armoured Car Units"] ''Ballymena 1914-1918''.</ref>**[http://wwwaccess.greatwardifferentbl.comuk/item/viewer/Great_Warark:/Brits_in_Caucasus81055/Brits_in_Caucasusvdc_100008195672.htm 0x000002 ''With BritishReport on R.N.A.S. ArmouredCar Squadron under Commander O. Locker-Cars Lampson ... serving in the Caucasus'Russia. [Signed: Nugent M. Clougher.<nowiki>] told by a Petty-Officer, from </nowiki>''The War Illustrated] : Russian Government Committee in London, 3rd February, 1917'' with photographs from an earlier edition1918. British Library Digital. These photographs were republished in (British Library Digital at 2022/01/31 has access problems and the following [httpshttp://archiveaccess.bl.orguk/streamUVR7/warillustratedal08hammuoft#pagebuild/2720uv-2.0.2/mode/2up pages 2720-2721, Volume 8] ''The War Illustrated Album de Luxe'' Archiveapp.html?isHomeDomain=true&isOnlyInstance=true&manifestUri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.org*"Epic of the Dunsterforce" ''Reveille'' December 1931, published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branchbl. Contains List of AIF members (Officer and NCOs) of Dunsterforceuk%2Fmetadata%2Fiiif%2Fark%3A%2F81055%2Fvdc_100008195672. Limited extracts from ''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia''0x000002%2Fmanifest. 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With R N A S 1932Armoured Cars from 15 October 1916 to 20 August 1917, page 21 (digital page 25) published by The Returned when he arrived back in England with a group of sick and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branchwounded.**Details of the British Armoured Car Force, RNAS also known as the Russian Armoured Car Squadron:[httphttps://reveillearchive.dlconsulting.comorg/details/navyeverywhere00cato/page/186/cgi-binmode/reveille?a=d&d=RV193504.1.49&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ 2up "East Persia and the War: An Australian’s ExperiencesThe Navy in Roumania". No 2] by RH Bedingfield page 187 ''ReveilleThe Navy Everywhere'' April 1935 pages 48-49 (digital 49-50) reveilleby Conrad Cato [real name Cyril Cox RNR] 1919 Archive.dlconsulting.comorg.**"With British Armoured-Cars in the Dunsterforce IrregularsCaucasus" told by Captain E W Latchford ''Reveille'', Volume 5, No 11a Petty- Volume 6, No 3, August-November 1932. Published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch:Officer [httphttps://reveillearchive.dlconsulting.comorg/details/TWI1917pt1/page/n123/cgi-binmode/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320801.1.27&srpos=7&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------# August, 2up page 25587], and [httphttps://reveillearchive.dlconsulting.comorg/details/TWI1917pt1/page/n127/cgi-binmode/reveille?a=d&d=RV193208011up page 590] ''The War Illustrated, 3rd February, 1917''. Archive.1org.76&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ August, pages 74-76] , [httphttps://reveilleweb.dlconsultingarchive.comorg/web/cgi-bin20120919161000/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320801.1.82&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ August page 80], [http://reveillewww.dlconsultinggreatwardifferent.com/cgi-binGreat_War/Brits_in_Caucasus/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320901Brits_in_Caucasus.1htm Transcribed version] greatwardifferent.17&srpos=18&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------# September page 15]com, archived with photographs from an earlier edition. These photographs were republished in [httphttps://reveillearchive.dlconsulting.comorg/stream/warillustratedal08hammuoft#page/2720/cgi-binmode/reveille?a=d&d=RV19320901.1.34&e=2up pages 2720-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ September2721, page 32Volume 8], ''The War Illustrated Album de Luxe'' Archive.org.**“With the British Armoured Cars in Russia” as told by Chief Petty Officer Checkley [httphttps://reveillearchive.dlconsulting.comorg/cgi-bindetails/reveille?a=d&d=RV19321001.1.17&srpos=5&e=wide-world-mag-1918-v-40/page/375/mode/2up pages 375--en-20--1--txt-txIN------ October, page 15385] and [httphttps://reveillearchive.dlconsulting.comorg/cgi-bindetails/reveille?a=d&d=RV19321001.1.27&e=wide-world-mag-1918-v---en-20--1--txt-txIN------ October, 40/page 25] (scroll down), [http:/472/reveille.dlconsulting.commode/cgi2up pages 472-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV19321101479] ''The Wide World Magazine.1.8&srpos=19&e=Adventure -Travel -Sport. Volume 40 1917-----en-20--1--txt-txIN------ November, page 6] reveille1918''.dlconsultingArchive.comorg *''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The Story of Anzacs in Asia'' edited by Keast Burke 1927. The Irregulars were Armenians, Assyrians etcIncludes Pack Wireless Signal Troops from Australia and New Zealand, including Dunsterforce and Captain Latchford was from the Australian ArmyCampaign in Kurdistan 1919. *"Memories Also includes nominal rolls at the back of the "Hush Hush" Force" by Captain Tom Kelsey, Connaught Rangers and Dunsterforcebook. NZsappers.org. ''Reveille''nz has two digital files/series, Volume 9, Nos 8-11, April-July 1936the first contains some digital pages which are of very poor quality. Published by The Returned and Services League second series of Australia New South Wales Branch files from nzsappers.org.nz: [httphttps://reveillewww.dlconsultingnzsappers.comorg.nz/cgiwp-bincontent/reveille?a=d&d=RV193604.1.37&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ April, page 36, continuing on page 38 (RHS of page), 39 (bottom of page)], [http:uploads/2020/reveille.dlconsulting.com11/cgiPages-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193605.1-70.20&e=-------en-20--pdf Pages 1--txt-txIN------ May, page 18, 1970], [httphttps://reveillewww.dlconsultingnzsappers.comorg.nz/cgiwp-bincontent/reveille?a=d&d=RV193606.1.20&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--uploads/2020/11/Pages-71-132.pdf pages 71-- June, page 18, 19132], ; [httphttps://reveillewww.dlconsultingnzsappers.comorg.nz/cgiwp-bincontent/uploads/2020/11/reveille?a=d&d=RV193607.1.20&e=Pages-133-206.pdf pages 133----193-en-20--1--txt-txIN------ July, page 18206] reveille.dlconsultingAlso see Maps above, for a better quality map from this book.com.
*[http://www.gwpda.org/1918/WardenDiary.pdf ''The Diary of Lieut.-Colonel John Weightman Warden 1918-1919''] - France, Dunsterforce, Vladivostok. From [http://www.gwpda.org/1918.html 1918 Documents] www.gwpda.org. Transcribed from the Public Archives of Canada
**"I call them Dunsterfarce & Napoofarce... Nobody with ability to organize." [October 20th, 1918]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20090913201217/http://www.argo.net.au/andre/mesopotamiaENFIN.htm "Australians In Transcaucasus"] being extracts from "Australians in Mesopotamia" Appendix No.5. ''The Australian Imperial Force In France During the Main German Offensive. Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918, Volume V'' by C W Bean, pages 703-784. Complete version [https://www.awm.gov.au/images/collection/pdf/RCDIG1069687--1-.pdf "Australians in Mesopotamia", pages 703-784] awm.gov.au
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-NZRi-t1-back-d5.html "The Dunsterforce Expedition"] Appendix V, pages 536-541 ''The Official History of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade'' compiled by Lieut.-Col. W. S. Austin 1924. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.
*[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.*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/36/2/101.full.pdf "Medical History of Trans-Caucasia in so far as It Affects an Army in the Field"] by Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Henderson ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1921;36:2 pages 101-108.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284709/page/n311/mode/2up "Caucasian Excursion"] by Captain L G H Girling pages 297-307 ''USI [United Service Institution Of India] Journal Vol. LXX'' 1940. Archive.org. With 27th Division to Batum(now Batumi), and Tiflis, Georgia from October 1918.:[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015000671613?urlappend=%3Bseq=258 The British in Georgia], page 216, Chapter X, "Independent Georgia 1918-1921" from ''A Modern History of Soviet Georgia'' by David Marshall Lang 1962 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/modernhistoryofs0000lang/page/216/mode/2up Page 216] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library version. See External links above for this text plus maps which are not from the text.*[http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/books/The%20Turkish%20Invasion%20of%20the%20Caucasus%201918.pdf "Chapter XLI The Turkish Invasion of Transcaucasia, 1918"] pages 457-496 ''Caucasian Battlefields: A History of Wars on the Turco-Causian Border 1828-1921'' by W E D Allen and the late Paul Muratoff [Pavel Pavlovich Muratov] first published 1953. conflicts.rem33.com. Contains some references to the British at Baku.*[http://archive.org/stream/furthercorrespon00greauoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Persia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament April 1914''] 1914 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/stream/persia005437mbp#page/n161/mode/2up "Persia and the Great War"] page 154 ''Persia'' by Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org:[http://www.jstor.org/stable/20028292 "The British Flag on the Caspian: A Side-Show of the Great War"] by Percy Sykes ''Foreign Affairs'' Vol. 2, No. 2 (Dec. 15, 1923), pp. 282-294. jstor.org. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]. *[https://archive.org/stream/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft#page/200/mode/2up The German spy Wassmuss in South Persia] page 200 Chapter V, ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts'' by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
*[http://archive.org/stream/britishintervent002569mbp#page/n7/mode/2up ''The British "Intervention" in Transcaspia 1918 -1919''] by C H Ellis 1963. This is the USA title. Archive.org. Original UK title ''The Transcaspian Episode. 1918-1919'' (1963). The author was part of the Malleson Mission, 'Malmiss'
:[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=fG9zk5Y3MugC&pg=PA126 "The Battle of Dushak"] 1918 pages 126-127 ''Turkmenistan'' by Paul Brummell 2005 Google Books. The [[7th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|1/19th Punjabi Infantry]] and the [[28th Light Cavalry]] took part in this action, part of the Malleson Mission in Transcaspia.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.281641/2015.281641.Journal-Of#page/n95/mode/2up "The British Military Mission to Turkestan 1918-1920"] by Major General Sir Wilfred Malleson ''Journal of the Central Asian Society'' Volume 9 1922 No 2 pp 96-110. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.280721/2015.280721.Journal-Of#page/n93/mode/2up "Military Operations in Transcaspia 1918-1919"] by Lt.Col.D E Knollys ''Journal of the Central Asian Society'' Volume 13, 1926 no 2 pp88-110. Archive.org. The author was in charge of the 19th Punjabi Regiment.
*Previously available online, perhaps may become available again, issues of ''Reveille'' published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch.
**"Epic of the Dunsterforce" ''Reveille'' December 1931. Contains List of AIF members (Officer and NCOs) of Dunsterforce. Pages 3-4, page 32.
**"East Persia: Aussie’s Experiences" ''Reveille'' July 1932, page 21.
**"East Persia and the War: An Australian’s Experiences". No 2 by RH Bedingfield ''Reveille'' April 1935 pages 48-49
**"With the Dunsterforce Irregulars" by Captain E W Latchford ''Reveille'', Volume 5, No 11 to Volume 6, No 3, August-November 1932. August, page 25, pages 74-76, page 80; September page 15, page 32; October, page 15, page 25 (scroll down); November, page 6. The Irregulars were Armenians, Assyrians etc, and Captain Latchford was from the Australian Army.
**"Memories of the "Hush Hush" Force" by Captain Tom Kelsey, Connaught Rangers and Dunsterforce. ''Reveille'', Volume 9, Nos 8-11, April-July 1936. April, page 36, continuing on page 38 (RHS of page), 39 (bottom of page); May, page 18, 19; June, page 18, 19; July, page 18.
====Intelligence and diplomatic missions====
*[https://archive.org/stream/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft#page/200/mode/2up The German spy Wassmuss in South Persia] page 200 Chapter V, ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts'' by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.281644/2015.281644.Journal-Of#page/n41/mode/2up "Bolshevism as I saw it at Tashkent in 1918"] by Sir George MacArtney ''Journal of the Central Asian Society'' Volume 7 1920 Nos 2-3 pp 42-58. Archive.org. Includes comments on the missions of Colonel Bailey and Captain Blacker (see following).
* ''Mission To Tashkent'' by [Lt Col] F M Bailey 1946. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208576 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ….”the astonishing adventures of a British intelligence officer working in Cemtral Central Asia, and his escape from the Bolsheviks”. This Mission is also referred to as the Mission of Lt-Col F.M.Bailey to Kashgar, Jul 1918-Jan 1921 (in a British Library document):"In Russian Turkestan under the Bolsheviks" by F.M.Bailey ''Journal of the Central Asian Society'' Volume 8, 1921, No 1, pp49-69. [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1921-journal-of-the-central-asian-society-vol-8-s-pdf/ ''Journal'' pdf download], Pahar Mountains Of Central Asia Digital Dataset.
:[http://www.jstor.org/stable/1781557 "A Visit to Bokhara in 1919"] by F. M. Bailey ''The Geographical Journal'' Vol. 57, No. 2 (Feb., 1921), pp. 75-87, and [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1781558 "A Visit to Bokhara in 1919: Discussion"] pp. 87-95. A sequel to the mission sent to the Soviet Government of Turkistan. jstor.org. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]. Also available as a [http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1921-visit-to-bokhara-in-1919-by-bailey-from-gjv57-s-pdf/ pdf download, Pahar: Mountains Of Central Asia Digital Dataset].
:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1971-beyond-the-frontiers-biography-of-f-m-bailey-by-swinson-s-pdf/ 1971 ''Beyond The Frontiers–Biography Of F M Bailey''] by Swinson. Pdf download, Pahar: Mountains Of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Full Title: ''Beyond the Frontiers: the Biography of Colonel F. M. Bailey, Explorer and Special Agent'' by Arthur Swinson 1971.
:[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag210edinuoft#page/824/mode/2up "The Forbidden Fortress of Khurasan"] by L V S Blacker page 824 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 210 July-December 1921 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.281641/2015.281641.Journal-Of#page/n5/mode/2up "Wars and Travel in Turkestan 1918-1920"] by L V S Blacker ''Journal of the Central Asian Society'' Volume 9 1922 pp 4-20. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2254/page/n3/mode/2up ''Tales from Turkistan-a Scythian's Stories''] by Stor Lob (Latham Valentine Stewart Blacker) 1924 Archive.org. The Preface states "Nearly all these stories are true: the remainder are made up of episodes which actually happened". Most of the tales originally appeared in ''Blackwood's Magazine''. [https://archive.org/details/1924-jusii-v54/page/n735/mode/2up Review of ''Tales from Turkestan''] digital page 736 ''Journal of the United Service Institution of India'' Volume 54, 1924.*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014437605?urlappend=%3Bseq=25 ''Adventures in the Near East, 1918-1922''] by A Rawlinson, New York edition 1924 (Originally published 1923) Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.528167/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org 1923 edition] and [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175749/page/n3 Archive.org], new and revised edition 1934, mirror from Digital Library of India. The author's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Alfred_Rawlinson,_3rd_Baronet Wikipedia] page. Also see [[Western Front]] for a book about the author's experience there.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi206edinuoft#page/440/mode/2up "Antranik"] by Liason page 441 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 206 July-December 1919. Archive.org. Includes brief mention of LAMs (probably Machine Gun Corps). Mission to Zangezeur to the Armenian leader Antranik.
*[httpshttp://wwwdiscovery.thegazettenationalarchives.cogov.uk/Londondetails/issuer/31287C3973360 KV 1/supplement/4739 Despatch by Lieut17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 1915-General Sir W R Marshall1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau] on . Link to a free record download from the operations of the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force from 1st October 1918 to 31st December 1918National Archives, dated 1st February 1919Kew. Mesopotamia and NW Persia (page 4743) ''The London Gazette'' 8 April 1919 Supplement: 31287 Page: 4739 :[httpshttp://wwwdiscovery.thegazettenationalarchives.cogov.uk/Londonbrowse/issuer/31813h/supplementC3973358 KV 1/2877 Despatch from Major General Sir George F MacMunn16-19], officiating Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary describing events since 1st January 1919, including North Persia, and Southern and Cental Kurdistan, for various operations between March and September 1919which may also contain related material. ''The London Gazette'' 5 March 1920 Supplement: 31813 Page: 2877. The actual pages are dated 8 March 1920Unclear if this record series contains any information in respect of Turkey etc.:*[https://wwwarchive.thegazette.co.ukorg/Londondetails/issuespiesinarabiathegreatwarandtheculturalfoundationsofbritainscovertempireinthemiddleeastbypriyasatia/32379mode/page/5321 Four Despatches from 2up ''Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary ForceMiddle East'']: Despatch No 1, dated 17th January 1920 from MacMunn, covering by Priya Satia 2008. Archive.org. ====Turkey in the post 1918 period November 1919 to 17th January 1920. Despatches from Lieutenant-General Haldane, covering the periods: 18th January 1920 to 30th June 1920 in Mesopotamia and NW Persia.====*See [Despatch No 2 dated 23rd August 1920. Page 5323]; 1st July 1820 to 19th October 1920 [Despatch No 3 dated 8th November 1920, page 5329] Despatch No 4, dated 8th February 1921 (page 5347) Army List for British Army online#Monthly Army List|Army List for British Army online -''The London GazetteMonthly Army List'' 1 July ]]. This series of publications contains, for applicable years, a section relevant to the Army of the Black Sea. As an example, noted for 1921 IssueJan. [https: 32379 Page//books.google.com.au/books?id=e8E5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP132 "Commands of the Army:5321Army of the Black Sea"] Google Books.*[https://archive.org/details/anglosovietrelat0000ullmalarmsexcursions0000brid/page/314254/mode/2up "The Anglo-Russian Rivalry in Chapter XIII On the EastBosphorus"]and following two chapters, page 315 255 ''Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 3Alarms & excursions : The Anglo-Soviet Accordreminiscences of a soldier'' by Richard HLieut.-Gen. Ullman 1972Sir Tom Bridges 1938. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes "Persia" Chapter IX page 349.*[https://archive.org/details/britisharmycrisi0000jeffalarmsexcursions/page/132n7/mode/2up "Persia and Mesopotamia"Another file, Archive.org] Chapter 8 page 133 ''The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22'' by Keith Jeffery 1984. ArchiveBridges was in Turkey until 1920 in a senior role. [https://en.wikipedia.org Books to Borrow/Lending Librarywiki/Tom_Bridges Tom Bridges] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176573/page/n109 "Turkey. The story of Mudania and Chanak"] Chapter XII page 100 ''Tim Harington Looks Back'' by General Sir Charles Harington 1941 reprint, first published 1940. Archive.org Also including [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176573/page/n273 "Appendix I. Extract from my Despatch"], (which was never officially published) page 244. [https://archive.org/details/TimHaringtonLooksBack/page/n1 2nd file, images slightly better] Archive.org. General Harington commanded the British Forces in Turkey from October 1920 for three years (following on from General Milne).
*[https://archive.org/details/berkshireregtvol2/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Royal Berkshire Regiment (Princess Charlotte of Wales's). Volume 2, 1914-1918''] by F Loraine Petre 1925. Archive.org. The 1st Battalion was in North Persia 1919-1921, and the 7th (Service) Battalion was in the Caucasus and Constantinople.
*[https://archive.org/details/manatarmsmemoirs0000lawf/page/110/mode/2up "Constantinople" [1922<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 110 ''A Man at Arms : Memoirs of two World Wars'' by Francis Law 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author was born 1897.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463/2015.284463.The-Royal#page/n271/mode/2up RASC and the Army of the Black Sea] pages 215-220 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection.
*"An Unofficial History of the Signal Service with the British Salonika Force 1915-1918" by Capt C C S White ''The Royal Engineers Journal''. [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1927-March.pdf Part 2] Scroll to pages 97-108 Vol XLI No 1 March 1927. Includes the Occupation of Constantinople. ([https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1926-December.pdf Part 1] Scroll to pages 647-658 (the digital file commences page 537) Vol XL No 4 December 1926) nzsappers.org.nz.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 ''Turkey in Travail: the Birth of a New Nation''] by Harold Armstrong (Lately Assistant and Acting Military Attache to the High Commissioner , Constantinople; Special Service Officer in War Office and on Head-quarter Staff of Allied Army of Occupation, and Supervisor of Turkish Gendarmerie) 1925 Archive.org/DLI. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b302550?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 HathiTrust version] where images are better and can be rotated. The author left Turkey in 1923.*[https://archive.org/details/jramc-1925-vol44vol45/page/n241/mode/2up "Notes on a Voyage from Southampton to Bombay on a Trooper, H M T "Marglen" 10,500 Tons (Canadian Pacific), January 23 to March 17, 1923"] by Major A D Stirling, RAMC page 218 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'', Volume 44 Jan.-June 1925. The emphasis is on the ports of call, including Constantinople. Archive.org *''The Anatolian Revolt'' by Mehmed Arif Bey (1924). Translated from the Turkish by C A Hooper. [https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv12-1926/page/105/mode/2up Part 1] page 106; [https://archive.org/details/armyquarterlyv12-1926/page/n351/mode/2up Part 2] page 323 ''The Army Quarterly Volume 12, 1926 April- July''. Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170507 ''Grey Wolf: Mustafa Kemal An Intimate Study of a Dictator''] by H C Armstrong 1935, first published 1932. Archive.org. The post armistice period commences [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.170507/2015.170507.Grey-Wolf-Mustafa-Kemal#page/n107/mode/2up page 108]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk] Wikipedia. He became President of Turkey in 1923.*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.547361/2015.547361.Memories-of#page/n195/mode/2up "Constantinople and the Crimea"] Chapter Twenty, page 185 ''Memories Of A Doctor In War And Peace'' by Isabel Hutton 1960. Archive.org. In mid 1920 the author, then Isabel Emslie, joined Lady Muriel Paget’s Mission for Children in the Crimea. She was evacuated from Sebastapol in November and became involved with the large numbers of Russian refugees, until she left Constantinople in late December 1920.*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag209edinuoft#page/202/mode/2up "Grief and Glamour of the Bosphorus"] by Lieut- Colonel P R Butler page 203 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 209 January-June 1921. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284719/page/n181/mode/2up "Struma Valley 1919" [Southern Macedonia<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 166 ''USI [United Service Institution Of India] Journal'' Vol.lxxii Jan to Oct 1942. Archive.org. Hunting wild fowl, on leave in December 1919 from the author’s regiment in Constantinople.*[https://archive.org/details/letters-from-cilicia/page/n1/mode/2up ''Letters from Cilicia''] by Alice Keep Clark 1924. Archive.org. Also available on [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102800927 Hathi Trust Digital Library] (same file). The author was an American, Near East Relief worker 1919-1920, working in Hadjin. The plan was to carry on relief largely in “occupied” territory where the Allies were in control, but in time it proved to be less dangerous in the “unoccupied” regions. Hadjin (Adana Province), where most of the population were Armenian, suffered a Turkish Nationalist siege of the city in 1920, and subsequently fell. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilicia Cilicia] (Wikipedia), bounded to the north and east by the Taurus Mountains. [http://www.midafternoonmap.com/2014/04/3-maps-of-armenian-town-that-exists-no.html 3 Maps of an Armenian Town that Exists No More] midafternoonmap.com.:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11166361_000 ''Hand Book : Near East Relief''] 1920. Archive.org. An American charitable organisation.:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11045814_000 ''The Medical Work of the Near East Relief; A review of its accomplishments in Asia Minor and the Caucasus during 1919-20''] edited by Geo. L Richards 1923 Archive.org ====Naval====*[https://www.naval-review.com/about-the-naval-review/ Online articles from ''The Naval Review'']. '''Update''' Now only available to members, or only apart for the exception "Time limited access to the archive is open to researchers and historians after 10 years from an article’s original publishing date for a small administration charge", see the page [https://www.naval-review.com/regulations/ About us/Regulations]. See [[Royal Navy]] for further comments.
**1919, Volume 7, Issue 4 "A Narrative from the Caspian Sea- (a) Reconnaissance of Fort Alexandrovsk" pages 520-523 and "A Narrative from the Caspian Sea- (b) Specimens of Bolshevist Propaganda" pages 525-531. By Cdr E L Grieve RN.
**1920 Volume 8, Issue 1 "The Royal Navy on the Caspian, 1918-1919". Pages 87-99
**1921, Volume 9, Issue 3 "Operations in the Crimea, 1919" pages 467-474. By Capt B S Thesiger RN.
**1921, Volume 9, Issue 4 "Narrative of HMS Caradoc 1917-1920" by Surgeon Lt G D Markham. "Part I" page 641; "Part II" 1922, Issue 1 p116; "Part III" 1922 Issue 2 p 290. Black Sea.
:Editions of ''The Naval Review'' are available at the British Library, which however does not appear to hold a complete set, and at the University of Oxford Library. *[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=337 "The Caspian Naval Force"] Chapter 23 page 271 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919''. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library.:Other chapters from this book containing deployments in the region [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=323 Chapter 22 page 259] and [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=512 Chapter 35 page 430]. Also see :[https://archive.org/details/sea-soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].* Account of [https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth_b5n3/page/161/mode/2up "Seaman Gunner Stan Smith", page 161] ''The True Glory : the Royal Navy, 1914-1939'' by Max Arthur 1996. A [https://archive.org/details/truegloryroyalna0000arth/mode/2up 2nd file] where the account commences page 227. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Smith was held as a prisoner at Baku by the Bolsheviks in very harsh conditions, also referred to as the "Black Hole of Baku". [First World War#Naval|First World Warhttps://web.archive.org/web/20201020234304/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-stan-smith-Historical 1524828.html "Obituary: Stan Smith"] by G K Johnson 9 Dec. 1995. independent.co.uk, archived:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Royal_Navy_mission_to_Enzeli 1920 Royal Navy mission to Enzeli] Wikipedia.*"Spotting Mines from a Balloon" by Lieut. Audrey L C White [https://books online.google.com.au/books?id=BSZwdyVs8lYC&pg=PA37 pages 37-38] and [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BSZwdyVs8lYC&pg=PA56 page 56] ''Popular Aviation January 1931''. Google Books. Post war mine clearing the sea for shipping and reopening the port of Constantinople. (The Balloonists may have been part of the RAF).*Fiction based on actual experiences. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b16238?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''NavalOdyssey'']by Thomas Woodrooffe 1938, first published c 1936. HathiTrust Digital Library. Toby Warren, on the (fictitious) British cruiser HMS "Cassiopeia", participates in the events in Turkey during the 1920s, and the Royal Navy's involvement in the crises there. One of the chapters is titled "Constan., 1923". A publisher's note about the book and the author says "After the war he saw service …in the Mediterranean…is thus eminently qualified to write a book about things actually seen and experienced while in the Navy".<ref>[http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19360427-1.2.78?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article "Publisher's Note" [about ''Naval Odyssey''<nowiki>] for other online versions</nowiki>] ''Morning Tribune'', 27 April 1936, Page 15. nlb.gov.sg.</ref> ====Air Force====
*[https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale'' War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'', Volume VI] by H A Jones 1937. Archive.org. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents''. Includes Persia.
:[https://catalog.hathitrustarchive.org/Recorddetails/over-balkans-south-russia/page/n7/mode/102644345 2up ''Over the Balkans and South Russia, being the history History of noNo. 47 Squadron, Royal Air Force''] by H.A. Jones 1923. HathiTrust Digital Library, available to those in areas such as North AmericaArchive.org. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170204072938/https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1924/1924%20-%200022.PDF Contents details]. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001895421 . Also reprinted in 1987.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 ''Turkey in Travail: the Birth of a New Nation''] by Harold Armstrong (Lately Assistant and Acting Military Attache to the High Commissioner , Constantinople; Special Service Officer in War Office and on Headwideworldmag-1920-quarter Staff of Allied Army of Occupation, and Supervisor of Turkish Gendarmerie) 1925 Archive.org/DLI. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b302550?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 HathiTrust version] where images are better and can be rotated. The author left Turkey in 1923.*[https://archive.org/details/declinefallofott0000palmv45/page/220 "Germany’s Ally"] Chapter 15, page 221 ''The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire'' by Alan Palmer 1994. The political situation during the WW1 period until 1923 when the Allied occupation of Constantinople came to an end. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.547361/2015.547361.Memories-of#page/n195276/mode/2up "Constantinople and “With the Crimea"] Chapter Twenty, page 185 ''Memories Of A Doctor In War And Peace'' by Isabel Hutton 1960. Archive.org. In mid 1920 the author, then Isabel Emslie, joined Lady Muriel Paget’s Mission for Children RAF in the Crimea. She was evacuated from Sebastapol in November and became involved with the large numbers of Russian refugees, until she left Constantinople in late December 1920.*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag209edinuoft#page/202/mode/2up "Grief and Glamour of the Bosphorus"South Russia”] by Lieut. K Warner- Colonel P R Butler Jones RAF page 203 276 ''Blackwood’s The Wide World Magazine'', no 209 January. Adventure - Travel -June 1921Sport. Archive.org*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014621810?urlappend=%3Bseq=17 ''In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919-Volume 45 1920: being the record of a journey to South Russia, the Crimea, Armenia, Georgia and Baku in 1919 and 1920''] by C. E. Bechhofer (full name: Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts). Reprint edition, originally published 1921. Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author was a British freeMay-lance journalist.:[https://archive.org/stream/wandererslogbein00robeiala#page/154/mode/2up "Russia in Ruins"] Chapter VIII, page 155 'October'A Wanderer's Log: being some memories of travel in India, the Far East, Russia, the Mediterranean & elsewhere'' by C. E. Bechhofer 1922 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/streamdetails/HIST3750GreatConspiracyAgainstRussialasttrainoverros0000aten/HIST%203750%20Great%20Conspiracy%20Against%20Russia#page/n37n5/mode/2up "Southern Campaign"] pages 30-32, "Chapter Vi The War of Intervention", ''The Great Conspiracy Against RussiaLast Train over Rostov Bridge'' ] by Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn 1946 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/volunteerarmyall0000brin/page/8 ''The Volunteer Army Captain Marion Aten and Allied intervention in South Russia, 1917-1921; a study in the politics and diplomacy of the Russian Civil War''] by George A Brinkley 1966. Arthur Orrmont 1961 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*''The Russian Civil War'' by Evan Mawdsley 2007Marion Aten was an American who flew in No. 47 Squadron, first published 2005RAF. [https://archive.org/details/russiancivilwar0000mawd/page/4 File 1], A [https://archivewww.org/details/russiancivilwar00evan/page/7 File 2] Archivelibrarything.org Books to Borrowcom/Lending Library.*Fiction based on actual experiences. [https:work/5256342/hdl.handle.netreviews/2027/uc1.$b16238?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Naval Odyssey''29392297 review] by Thomas Woodrooffe 1938, first published c 1936(librarything. HathiTrust Digital Library. Toby Warren, on the (fictitiouscom) British cruiser HMS "Cassiopeia", participates in has doubts about the events in Turkey during veracity of some of the 1920sstories, and which were probably added to make the Royal Navy's involvement in the crises there. One of book more saleable to the chapters is titled "Constan.general public, 1923". A publisher's note about the book and the author says "After the war he saw service …in the Mediterranean…is thus eminently qualified elsewhere it is considered to write be a a book about things actually seen and experienced while in the Navy"vivid though chronologically unreliable account.<ref>[http"Biplane Battle://eresourcesFlying Against the Bolsheviks During Russia’s Civil War" by Derek O'Connor.nlbhistorynet.govcom.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/morningtribune19360427-1.2.78?ST=1&AT=search&k=%20%22Naval%20Odyssey%22&QT=%22navalodyssey%22&oref=article "Publisher's Note" See [[about ''Naval Odyssey''<nowiki>Norperforce#External links|External links]</nowiki>] ''Morning Tribune'', 27 April 1936, Page 15above. nlb.gov.sg(scroll down). </ref>*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284719/page/n181/mode/2up An expanded edition based on a "Struma Valley 1919wealth of new material" [Southern Macedonia<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 166 ''USI [United Service Institution Of India] Journal'' Vol.lxxii Jan to Oct 1942. Archive.org. Hunting wild fowl, on leave in December 1919 from the author’s regiment in Constantinople. *[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.170507 ''Grey Wolf: Mustafa Kemal An Intimate Study of a Dictator''] by H C Armstrong 1935, first including photographs was published 1932. Archive.org. The post armistice period commences [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.170507/2015.170507.Grey-Wolf-Mustafa-Kemal#page/n107/mode/2up page 108]2011. [https://enbooks.wikipediagoogle.org/wiki/Mustafa_Kemal_Atatürk Mustafa Kemal Atatürk] Wikipedia. He became President of Turkey in 1923com.*[http:/au/books.northwestern.edu/viewer.html?id=inu:inu-mntb-0006254325-bk ''Letters from Cilicia''Nu4hJyV6uL4C&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] by Alice Keep Clark 1924Google Books. Northwestern University Libraries Digitized Collection. [https://search.library.northwestern.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid ===01NWU_ALMA51599823460002441&context=L&vidMiscellaneous=NULVNEW&search_scope=NWU&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US Catalogue record]. The author was an American, Near East Relief worker 1919-1920, working in Hadjin. The plan was to carry on relief largely in “occupied” territory where the Allies were in control, but in time it proved to be less dangerous in the “unoccupied” regions. Hadjin (Adana Province), where most of the population were Armenian, suffered a Turkish Nationalist siege of the city in 1920, and subsequently fell. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilicia Cilicia] (Wikipedia), bounded to the north and east by the Taurus Mountains. [http://www.midafternoonmap.com/2014/04/3-maps-of-armenian-town-that-exists-no.html 3 Maps of an Armenian Town that Exists No More] midafternoonmap.com.:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11166361_000 ''Hand Book : Near East Relief''] 1920. Archive.org. An American charitable organisation.:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11045814_000 ''The Medical Work of the Near East Relief; A review of its accomplishments in Asia Minor and the Caucasus during 1919-20''] edited by Geo. L Richards 1923 Archive.org*[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 illin 1916 and returned to England where she died a few months later in July. *''Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East: A Documentary Record'' by J C Hurewitz 1956. [httphttps://discoveryarchive.nationalarchives.gov.ukorg/details/rdiplomacyinnearm1956hure/page/n5/C3973360 KV 1mode/17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 19152up ''Volume I 1535-1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau1914'']. Link to a free record download from the National Archives, Kew. [httphttps://discoveryarchive.nationalarchives.gov.ukorg/details/browsediplomacyinnearm00hure/rpage/hn7/C3973358 KV 1mode/162up ''Volume II 1914-191956''] Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary which may also contain related materialArchive. Unclear if this record series contains any information in respect of Turkey etcorg.*''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]
:''First Series Volume XII'' [https://archive.org/details/doc-brit-foreign-policy-1-s-v-12/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=m1gJAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books version].
:''First Series Volume XIII Turkey February-December 1920. Arabia, Syria and Palestine February 1920- January 1921. Persia January 1920-March 1921''. [https://archive.org/details/doc-brit-foreign-policy-1-s-v-13 Archive.org version], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Z3q1oji5s6oC&pg=PR1 Google Books version].
:''First Series Volume XVII Greece and Turkey January 1, 1921-September 2, 1922'' [https://archive.org/details/doc-brit-foreign-policy-1-s-v-17 Archive.org version], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=EI5nAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books version].
:''First Series Volume XVIII Greece and Turkey September 3, 1922-July 24, 1923'' [https://archive.org/details/doc-brit-foreign-policy-1-s-v-18 Archive.org version], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=YlLD1gbJMRMC&pg=PR1 Google Books version].
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000059524 HathiTrust Digital Library editions for this series] (viewing conditions differ- some may not be available in USA). [https://web.archive.org/web/20190131182335/https://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom Details] of the volumes (diplomatic-documents.org, archived page)
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
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