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*[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”.
:[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.
*Two videos ''The Adventures of Dunsterforce'' presented by Indiana Neidell. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LExMogcEh0 "The Hush Hush Army" Part 1] 25 Dec 2017. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpjiUwWg-zM&t=32s "The Defence of Baku" Part 2] 2 Jan 2018. YouTube, 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
*: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. Hathi Trust HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://www.wdlarchive.org/endetails/item/9155 World Digital Library] a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, contributed by Library of Congress. *[https:peace-handbooks-v9-russian-empire/page/archive.orgn395/detailsmode/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]
*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.
*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 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''.
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn5018499 ''Stalky’s Forlorn Hope''] by Captain Stanley George Savige (Australian Army Officer) 1919. 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/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.
**"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 British. Armoured-Cars in the Caucasus'Transcribed version] told by a Petty-Officer, from ''The War Illustrated, 3rd February, 1917'' (greatwardifferent.com, 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
*''With Horse and Morse in Mesopotamia: The Story of Anzacs in Asia'' edited by Keast Burke 1927. Includes Pack Wireless Signal Troops from Australia and New Zealand, including Dunsterforce and the Campaign in Kurdistan 1919. Also includes nominal rolls at the back of the book. NZsappers.org.nz has two digital files/series, the first contains some digital pages which are of very poor quality. The second series of files from nzsappers.org.nz: [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-1-70.pdf Pages 1-70], [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-71-132.pdf pages 71-132]; [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Pages-133-206.pdf pages 133-206] . Also see Maps above, for a better quality map from this book.
:[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) 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.
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3973360 KV 1/17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 1915-1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau]. Link to a free record download from the National Archives, Kew. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C3973358 KV 1/16-19] Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary which may also contain related material. Unclear if this record series contains any information in respect of Turkey etc.
====Turkey in the post 1918 period====
*See [[Army List for British Army online#Monthly Army List|Army List for British Army online -''Monthly Army List'']]. This series of publications contains, for applicable years, a section relevant to the Army of the Black Sea. As an example, noted for 1921 Jan. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=e8E5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PP132 "Commands of the Army: Army of the Black Sea"] Google Books.
*[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.
*[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.
*[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.
====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 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 :[[First World War#Naval|First World Warhttps://archive.org/details/sea-Historical books online-Navalsoldiers/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://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.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 ''Naval Odyssey''] 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>]</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.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
:[https://archive.org/details/vocabulariesengl00grearich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Vocabularies: English, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Armenian, Kurdish, Syriac''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
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