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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206358/page/n293 Pages 200-205] ''History of the 1st Battalion 6th Rajputana Rifles (Wellesley’s)'' by Lieut Colonel F H James 1938. Archive.org. The experience of part of the regiment (346 in total, officers, ORs and followers) after the fall of Kut.
*For an Indian Army regimental history, where part of the regiment was taken prisoner at Kut, see [[24th Regiment of Punjab Infantry|24th Punjabis]], on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175378 ''Adventures in Turkey and Russia''] by E H Keeling, London 1924. Pdf download, Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175378 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. The author was captured at Kut, and the initial chapter details the the very poor medical condition of many of those captured. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Keeling Edward Keeling] Wikipedia. He was in the Indian Army Reserve of Officers.
:[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi205edinuoft#page/682/mode/2up "How British Prisoners Left Turkey"] by Lieutenant-Colonel E H Keeling page 682 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' January-June 1919, Volume 205 Archive.org. The practical difficulties associated with the repatriation of prisoners of war.
*[https://archive.org/stream/besiegedinkutaft00barb#page/n7/mode/2up ''Besieged in Kut, and after''] by Major Charles Harrison Barber I M S [Indian Medical Service] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/inkutcaptivitywi00sand ''In Kut and Captivity : with the Sixth Indian Division''] by Major E W C Sandes R E 1919 Archive.org
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284373 ''Tales of Turkey''] by Major E W C Sandes 1924. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284373 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.*[https://archive.org/details/caughtbyturks00yeatuoft ''Caught by the Turks''] by Francis Yeats-Brown 1919 Archive.org The author was a member of the Royal Flying Corps who was captured near Baghdad in 1915. Also by the same author ''Bengal Lancer'', (1930) which contains a chapter on his time in Mesopotamia prior to his capture: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/58995 Pdf download], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.58995 Archive.org version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/208478 Another pdf download] , mirror from Digital Library of India, ; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208478 Another file, Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ''Golden Horn'' by Francis Yeats-Brown 1932 is available on the Digital Library of India website with a choice of two pdf downloads [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/175964 Download 1], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/209036 Download 2]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209036 Archive.org 2 version] , mirror from Digital Library of India. "A sketch of the political activities in Turkey from 1908 to the world war, and an account of the author's experiences as a prisoner of war of Turkey. This latter part (chap. V-XI) is a revision of the author's book published in 1919 under title: ''Caught by the Turks''." [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Yeats-Brown Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain Rupert Stanley Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org. HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster. HMS Tara was formerly the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) ship Hibernia, with more details in [http://blog.nrm.org.uk/prisoners-of-the-red-desert/ Prisoners of the Red Desert: Wartime Adventures of LNWR railwaymen] National Railway Museum.
:[https://archive.org/stream/truestoriesofg02mill#page/252/mode/2up "The Tale of the Tara"] page 253 ''True Stories of the Great War, Volume II''. Editor in Chief Francis Trevelyan Miller 1917 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b302550?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Turkey in Travail: the Birth of a New Nation''] by Harold Armstrong (Lately Assistant and Acting Military Attache to the High Commissioner , Constantinople) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.61410 Archive.org/DLI version]. The initial chapters cover the fall of Kut and the author’s experiences as POW in Turkey. He appears to have then been an officer in an Indian Army regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/easternnightsand00bottiala ''Eastern Nights--and Flights; a Record of Oriental Adventure''] by Alan Bott 1920 Archive.org The author was a scout pilot in Palestine, who became, after his plane crashed in 1918 a prisoner of the Turks, eventually in Afion-Kara-Hissar in Turkey. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bott Alan Bott] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89081845935?urlappend=%3Bseq=255 ''The Escaping Club'': "Part II"] [page 241] by A. J. Evans 1922 HathiTrust Digital Library. As a POW the author had escaped from Germany in June 1917. In March 1918, while on a bombing raid in Palestine his plane came down. He was captured by Arabs, along with two others, and subsequently became prisoners of the Turks. Also available as a [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/241506 pdf download], Digital Library of India, [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241506 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/fourfiftymilesto00john ''Four-Fifty Miles to Freedom''] by Captain M A B Johnston, RGA and Captain K D Yearsley RE 1919 Archive.org. The cover title is ''450 Miles to Freedom''. The authors were at Kastamoni, Changri and Yozgad
*[https://archive.org/details/roadtoendor00unkngoog ''The Road to En-Dor; being an account of how two prisoners of war at Yozgad in Turkey won their way to freedom''] by E H Jones Lt. IARO, 1920 Archive.org The author, Elias Henry Jones was captured at Kut and had previously been in the [[Indian Civil Service]] in Burma. Biographical details are available below<ref>[http://homefrontmuseum.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/elias-henry-jones/ Elias Henry Jones] homefrontmuseum (accessed 22 July 2014)</ref>
**[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=ior!l!mil!7!18454_f054v Letter from Major-General C Melliss 1st February 1918 re fate of men from the Kut Garrison]
***[http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=ior!l!mil!7!18454_f073r Previous letter 15 August 1917]
*National Archives of Australia files, mainly consisting of copies of files from the British Foreign Office. [httphttps://wwwrecordsearch.naa.gov.au/collectionSearchNRetrieve/Interface/searchSearchScreens/indexBasicSearch.aspx Search the NAA collection]**[httphttps://naa12recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scriptsSearchNRetrieve/imagineInterface/ViewImage.aspaspx?B=352773&I=1&SE=1 1916 Correspondence] File S91914/89/364 (4 pages)**[httphttps://naa12recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scriptsSearchNRetrieve/Interface/imagineViewImage.aspaspx?B=1805821&I=1&SE=1 Prisoners of War Camps in Turkey] File 1917/69/526 (8 pages)**[httphttps://naa12recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scriptsSearchNRetrieve/imagineInterface/ViewImage.aspaspx?B=352884&I=1&SE=1 File 1917/89/397377] (185 pages)**[httphttps://naa12recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scriptsSearchNRetrieve/Interface/ImagineViewImage.aspaspx?B=395661&I=1&SE=1 Australians captured in Turkey (40 pages) Alphabetical list with details]. This is an Australian file.**[httphttps://naa12recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scriptsSearchNRetrieve/imagineInterface/ViewImage.aspaspx?B=353180&I=1&SE=1 Mortality among Prisoners of War in Turkey :1918 correspondence] File 1918/89/724 (20 pages)**[httphttps://naa12recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scriptsSearchNRetrieve/Interface/imagineViewImage.aspaspx?B=232438&I=1&SE=1 Agreements with Turkey] (67) pages ((Australian) Prime Minister’s Department file) Includes treatment of the British Prisoners of War working for the Baghdad Railway Construction Company in Belemedik in the Taurus Mountains. Also prisoners from Kut who suffered terrible conditions.**[httphttps://naa12recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scriptsSearchNRetrieve/imagineInterface/ViewImage.aspaspx?B=353219&I=1&SE=1 Prisoners of War in Turkey] Includes a copy of ''Reports on Conditions in Turkish Prisons'', HMSO, presented to the British Parliament 1919at page 26. File 1919/89/298 (37 pages)**[httphttps://naa12recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scriptsSearchNRetrieve/imagineInterface/ViewImage.aspaspx?B=3445273&I=1&SE=1 Narrative: ''Two and a half Years a prisoner of war in Turkey''] Related by Trooper GW Handsley, [2nd Light Horse] Written by Serj. JH Foster 1919. 39 pages. The narrative is pages 7-39. This is an Australian file. [Subsequently published, see following entry].
*[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-38438001/view#page/n0/mode/1up ''Two-and-a-Half Years a Prisoner of War in Turkey''] Related by Trooper G.W. Handsley, Second Light Horse Regiment ; written by Sergeant J.R. Foster, 2nd edition c 1920. nla.gov.au
*“Captives of the Turks” by Sgt. (later Capt.) John Halpin, 12th L.H. Regt., A.I.F., author of ''Blood in the Mists'' published in Sydney, 1934. A series of articles appearing in ''Reveille'', published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch in 1934. Unfortunately only Parts 7-9 of the article in Volume 8, Numbers 1-3, September-November 1934 are available online, which document the harsh treatment soldiers who were not officers received.
