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*[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.

*[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), [https://web.archive.org/web/20131121203934/http://www.conflicts.rem33.com/images/Azerbaijan/CAJ_vol8.3_13_e.pdf pdf] conflicts.rem33.com

**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://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. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://www.wdlarchive.org/endetails/itempeace-handbooks-v9-russian-empire/9155 World Digital Library] a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, contributed by Library of Congress. *[https:page/n395/archive.orgmode/details/handbookofasiami01greauoft ''A Handbook of Asia Minor: Volume I General. July 1919''] by [Great Britain] Naval Staff Intelligence Department. 2up Archive.org. Note, maps at the end of the book are not included.version]

*[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?vidid=MINN:31951000606636w jAFEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PR3 Google Books version], Public Domain in USA(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.

*[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 1928 Archive.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. Google BooksArchive. org. 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''.

**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 Lord 1981, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008443007 .</ref><ref>[https://snake43.webs.com/tsar-s-british-troops "The Tsar's British Armoured Car Units"] ''Ballymena 1914-1918''.</ref>**[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100008195672.0x000002 ''Report on R.N.A.S. Armoured Car Squadron under Commander O. Locker-Lampson ... serving in Russia. [Signed: Nugent M. Clougher.<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] : Russian Government Committee in London, 1918. British Library Digital. (British Library Digital at 2022/01/31 has access problems and the following [http://access.bl.uk/UVR7/build/uv-2.0.2/app.html?isHomeDomain=true&isOnlyInstance=true&manifestUri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.bl.uk%2Fmetadata%2Fiiif%2Fark%3A%2F81055%2Fvdc_100008195672.0x000002%2Fmanifest.json&embedScriptUri=http://access.bl.uk/UVR7/build/uv-2.0.2/lib/embed.js&embedDomain=access.bl.uk&domain=access.bl.uk&isLightbox=false&locale=en-GB&config=https://api.bl.uk/configuration/universalviewer/v2/ark:/81055/vdc_100008195672.0x000002&xdm_e=http%3A%2F%2Faccess.bl.uk%2Fitem%2Fviewer%2Fark%3A%2F81055%2Fvdc_100008195672.0x000002&xdm_c=default598&xdm_p=4#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&xywh=-728%2C-182%2C4055%2C3637 temporary access link] may be required). Mainly concerns the establishment of the unit, and payment matters, with only brief operational details. The unit was in Galicia June and July 1917 covering the retreat, then left in September 1917 for its winter base at Kursk where it remained until 18 January 1918, when it returned to England.**[https://archive.org/details/JRNMSVOL4Images/page/n249/mode/2up "Ten Months with the Russian Army"] by Surgeon W H King R.N pages 193-203, Volume 4, 1918, ''Journal of the Royal Navy Medical Service''. With R N A S Armoured Cars from 15 October 1916 to 20 August 1917, when he arrived back in England with a group of sick and wounded.**Details of the British Armoured Car Force, RNAS also known as the Russian Armoured Car Squadron: [https://archive.org/details/navyeverywhere00cato/page/186/mode/2up "The Navy in Roumania"] page 187 ''The Navy Everywhere'' by Conrad Cato [real name Cyril Cox RNR] 1919 Archive.org.</ref>**"With British Armoured-Cars in the Caucasus" told by a Petty-Officer [https://archive.org/details/TWI1917pt1/page/n123/mode/2up page 587] and [https://archive.org/details/TWI1917pt1/page/n127/mode/1up page 590] ''The War Illustrated, 3rd February, 1917''. Archive.org. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120919161000/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Brits_in_Caucasus/Brits_in_Caucasus.htm 'With BritishTranscribed version] greatwardifferent. Armoured-Cars in the Caucasus'] told by a Petty-Officercom, from ''The War Illustrated, 3rd February, 1917'' archived 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.**“With the British Armoured Cars in Russia” as told by Chief Petty Officer Checkley [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1918-v-40/page/375/mode/2up pages 375-385] and [https://archive.org/details/wide-world-mag-1918-v-40/page/472/mode/2up pages 472-479] ''The Wide World Magazine. Adventure - Travel - Sport. Volume 40 1917-1918''. Archive.org

*[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.

:[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/details/alarmsexcursions0000brid/page/254/mode/2up "Chapter XIII On the Bosphorus"] and following two chapters, page 255 ''Alarms & excursions : reminiscences of a soldier'' by Lieut.-Gen. Sir Tom Bridges 1938. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://archive.org/details/alarmsexcursions/page/n7/mode/2up Another file, Archive.org]. Bridges was in Turkey until 1920 in a senior role. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bridges Tom Bridges] Wikipedia.

*[httphttps://booksarchive.northwestern.eduorg/details/viewer.html?id=inu:inuletters-mntbfrom-0006254325-bk cilicia/page/n1/mode/2up ''Letters from Cilicia''] by Alice Keep Clark 1924. Northwestern University Libraries Digitized Collection, Archive.org. Also available on [https://searchcatalog.libraryhathitrust.northwestern.eduorg/primo-exploreRecord/fulldisplay?docid=01NWU_ALMA51599823460002441&context=L&vid=NULVNEW&search_scope=NWU&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US Catalogue record], however in the process of migrating to theHathiTrust 102800927 Hathi Trust Digital Library. ] (same Try contacting the University Librarian if you are interested in this book 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://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.

*[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 :[[First World War#Naval|First World Warhttps://archive.org/details/sea-Historical books online-Naval]soldiers/page/n15/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version] for other online versions.* 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". [https://web.archive.org/web/20201020234304/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-stan-smith-1524828.html "Obituary: Stan Smith"] by G K Johnson 9 Dec. 1995. independent.co.uk, archived

:[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 Also reprinted in 1987.*[https://archive.org/details/wideworldmag-1920-v45/page/276/mode/2up “With the British RAF in South Russia”] by Lieut. K Warner-Jones RAF page 276 ''The Wide World Magazine. Adventure - Travel - Sport. Volume 45 1920 May-October''. Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/lasttrainoverros0000aten/page/n5/mode/2up ''Last Train over Rostov Bridge''] by Captain Marion Aten and Arthur Orrmont 1961 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library UIN. Marion Aten was an American who flew in No. 47 Squadron, RAF.:A [https: BLL01001895421 //www.librarything.com/work/5256342/reviews/29392297 review] (librarything. Also reprinted com) has doubts about the veracity of some of the stories, which were probably added to make the book more saleable to the general public, and elsewhere it is considered to be a a vivid though chronologically unreliable account. <ref>"Biplane Battle: Flying Against the Bolsheviks During Russia’s Civil War" by Derek O'Connor. historynet.com. See [[Norperforce#External links|External links]] above. (scroll down).</ref>:An expanded edition based on a "wealth of new material", including photographs was published in 19872011. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Nu4hJyV6uL4C&printsec=frontcover Sample pages] Google Books.