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*''Stalky’s Forlorn Hope'' by Captain Stanley George Savige (Australian Army Officer) 1919 is available as a [http://nla.gov.au/nla.aus-vn5018499 pdf download] from the 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://web.archive.org/web/20170521000156/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 Lord1981, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008443007 .</ref>
**[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'' 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 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.
