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===Historical books online===
*[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).
*[https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford ''Eden to Armageddon : World War I in the Middle East''] by Roger Ford 2010. Includes [https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford/page/118/mode/2up Part II "The Caucasus, Armenia, Anatolia and Persia] page 119. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[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, page 404 ''History Of The Bombay Pioneers 1777-1933'' 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/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n107/mode/2up Page 89] mentions the Indian Army in Anatolia, after the war.
*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://books.google.com.au/books?id=oHa-BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA503 “The Caucasus"] page 503 ''Worcestershire Regiment in the Great War, Volume 2'' by Capt H. FitzM. Stacke, reprint edition, originally published 1928. Google Books.
*[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'
*[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.
*[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://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/31813/supplement/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.
:[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32379/page/5321 Four Despatches from the Commander-In Chief, Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force]: Despatch No 1, dated 17th January 1920 from MacMunn, covering the 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.[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) ''The London Gazette'' 1 July 1921 Issue: 32379 Page:5321.
*[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/anglosovietrelat0000ullm/page/314/mode/2up "The Anglo-Russian Rivalry in the East"], page 315 ''Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 3: The Anglo-Soviet Accord'' by 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"] Chapter 8 page 133 ''The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22'' by Keith Jeffery 1984. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
