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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 Military Books-located by the Search/Iran).

*British Library India Office Records on Qatar Digital Library. Read online (book reader is somewhat slow) or download. A selection includes

**''German War, Persia''. Multiple digitised files IOR/L/PS/10/478 to IOR/L/PS/10/493. Many are c 1915. Probably the easiest way to locate all these files, is to use the search term IOR/L/PS/10/478 in the [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=1&dstmp=1550894559129&vid=IAMS_VU2&fromLogin=true British Library Archives and Manuscripts Search], then for the record displayed, click on Browse this collection. Then navigate, using the left hand side of the webpage to the other record items, which include links to to the digital versions.

**[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100025595823.0x00000a pages 9-16] ''Central Asia, Persia, Afghanistan, &c. Bolshevik and Pan-Islamic Movements and connected information. Issue No. 3. Supplement. 1st to 31st December 1919'' IOR/L/PS/18/A186 . Note that currently (2019/02/12) digital images are in reverse order. Includes Transcaspia and Trans-Caucasia.

**[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100026415688.0x000016 ''Persian Baluchistan (including the Sarhad and Persian Mekran) The Quetta-Nushki extension railway'']. File created 8 May 1922. IOR/L/PS/18/C208. It includes a brief description of these regions and outlines local British activities during the First World War to counter threats to their interests.

*[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32184/supplement/159 "Despatch from General Sir G.F. Milne Commanding in Chief, the Army of The Black Sea dated 11 August 1920"] ''The London Gazette Supplement'' 7 January 1921 Supplement: 32184 pages: 159-175. From the date of the signature of the Armistice with Turkey to the date of the signature of the Turkish Peace Treaty (10th August 1920). Indian Army regiments mentioned: [[28th Light Cavalry]], [[7th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|19th Punjabis]], 1/[[21st Regiment of Punjab Infantry |21st Punjabis]], 1/[[ 25th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|25th Punjabis]] and 1/[[4th Regiment of Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force |54th Sikhs]].

**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32192/page/368 List of those mentioned for distinguished and gallant services] ''The London Gazette'' 11 January 1921 Issue: 32192 page: 368 with an addition [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32655/supplement/2583 bottom of page 2583] 29 March 1922 Supplement:32655 Page:2583

*:Additional Indian Army regiments mentioned: [[10th Regiment of Jat Infantry|1/10th Jats]], [[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|2/39th Garhwal Rifles]], [[2nd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent|1/95th Russell's Infantry]], [[119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment)|119th Infantry]] and [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry|67th Punjabis]]

*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89241 ''The White Armies of Russia: A Chronicle of Counter-Revolution and Allied Intervention''] by George Stewart 1933 Archive.org. Includes four chapters on South Russia.

*[http://www.jstor.org/stable/1780395 "The Road from Baghdad to Baku"] by G. S. F. Napier ''The Geographical Journal'' Vol. 53, No. 1 (Jan., 1919), pp. 1-16. jstor.org. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]]

*[http://www.archive.org/stream/adventuresofduns00dunsrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Adventures of Dunsterforce''] by L C Dunsterville 1920 Archive.org

*[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/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 Lord 1981, available at the British Library UIN: BLL01008443007 .</ref><ref>Details of the British Armoured Car Force, RNAS also known as the Russian Armoured Car Squadron:

*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-NZRi-t1-back-d5.html "The Dunsterforce Expedition"] Appendix V, pages 536-541 ''The Official History of the New Zealand Rifle Brigade'' compiled by Lieut.-Col. W. S. Austin 1924. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection, Victoria University of Wellington Library.

*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER241339 ''From the Gulf to the Caspian : being the souvenir booklet of the 33rd. Motor Ambulance Convoy which served in Mesopotamia and North Persia, 1916 to 1919''] written by various members of the unit who remain anonymous. [1920?] State Library of Victoria. This Unit consisted of Army Service Corps personnel, together with Royal Army Medical Corps personnel.

*[http://jramc.bmj.com/content/36/2/101.full.pdf "Medical History of Trans-Caucasia in so far as It Affects an Army in the Field"] by Lieutenant-Colonel P. H. Henderson ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps'' 1921;36:2 pages 101-108.

*[https://archive.org/details/caucasian-battlefields-a-history-of-the-wars-on-the-turco-caucasian-border-1828-1921/page/456/mode/2up "Chapter XLI The Turkish Invasion of Transcaucasia, 1918"] pages 457-496 ''Caucasian Battlefields: A History of Wars on the Turco-Causian Border 1828-1921'' by W E D Allen and the late Paul Muratoff [Pavel Pavlovich Muratov] 1953. Archive.org. Contains some references to the British at Baku.

*[https://archive.org/stream/persia005437mbp#page/n161/mode/2up  "Persia and the Great War"] page 154 ''Persia'' by Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes 1922  Archive.org

:[http://www.jstor.org/stable/20028292 "The British Flag on the Caspian: A Side-Show of the Great War"] by Percy Sykes ''Foreign Affairs'' Vol. 2, No. 2 (Dec. 15, 1923), pp. 282-294. jstor.org. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].