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:[http://www.levantineheritage.com/haidarpasha-explosion.html Haidarpasha explosion] on 6 September 1917 when the armoury exploded, possibly due to a clandestine operation conducted by a [British] Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) volunteer agent.
*[https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD1102343 ''Expeditionary Intelligence in a Time of Crisis. The USS Scorpion in Constantinople 1914-1918''] by Michael Imbrenda 1 June 2020. [https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1102343.pdf Direct pdf link]. An Essay submitted to the Faculty of the United States Naval War College. Defence Technical Information Centre dtic.mil.
*Occupation of Constantinople articles, including photographs, on Mavi Boncuk website.
:"1920: British Fleet at Ismid" 12/02/13 and "1920: Ismid-Black Sea Line and Rebels" 12/02/13. Scroll down [http://boncuk1.rssing.com/chan-23614969/all_p11.html page 11]; "Turkish Actions of USS Sands" 01/10/14 and "RHN Averoff Fighing Turks" 01/10/14 scroll down [http://boncuk1.rssing.com/chan-23614969/all_p15.html page 15]; "Averoff's Deployment to Constantinople" 01/10/14, "Turkish Action of USS McFarland" 01/10/14 and "Turkish Action of USS Sturtevant" 01/10/14 scroll down [http://boncuk1.rssing.com/chan-23614969/all_p16.html page 16].
**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://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4SbP95FkT0C&pg=PA284 Bibliography of Memoirs and other First Hand accounts] page 284 ''The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921: An Annotated Bibliography'' by Jonathan Smele Google Books.
*[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/49601/HAIDAR%20PASHA%20CEMETERY Haidar Pasha Cemetery] , located in a suburb of Istanbul. cwgc.org. ( Also see Maps below, in particular the map of the Skutari area). Includes a Memorial and Addena Addenda panel erected to commemorate Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War who died fighting in South Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and in post Armistice operations in Russia and Transcaucasia, whose graves are not known, together with others buried in cemeteries in South Russia and Transcaucasia whose graves can no longer be maintained. cwgc.org. Those commemorated include Lieut.-Colonel Geoffrey Davis Pike, head of the ‘Caucasus Military Agency’, killed, probably executed, by the Bolsheviks in August 1918. <ref>medalmaniac [Les] [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/188176-col-gd-pike-mc-9th-gurkhas-kia-caucasus-15-august-1918/?do=findComment&comment=2458361 Col G.D. Pike MC, 9th Gurkhas, KIA Caucasus 15 August 1918] ''Great War Forum'' 1 November 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2018.</ref>
*[http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/southasia/2014/11/11/indians-in-the-middle-east-the-forgotten-soldiers-of-the-first-world-war/ Indians in the Middle East: The forgotten soldiers of the First World War] by Vedika Kant. Mentions Indian Soldiers buried in Istanbul’s Haydarpaşa English Cemetery. Although the text says these are POW deaths, a comment by Adil dated August 17, 2015 says “The Haidar Pasha Memorial largely commemorates Indians who died post the Armistice and most casualties are from the Army of the Black Sea”. LSE South Asia Centre, London School of Economics.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20190317150417/http://www.atam.gov.tr/dergi/sayi-42/british-policy-on-the-fate-of-constantinople-and-the-allied-occupation-of-the-city-on-march-16-1920 "British Policy on the Fate of Constantinople and the Allied Occupation of the City on March 16 [1920<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Dr. Neşe Özden. Scroll down to English version. Ataturk Research Centre.atam.gov.tr, now archived.
