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*[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/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 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.
**[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'] 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
