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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
*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/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
: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].
:[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". [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).
