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**From [https://archive.org/stream/prisonerinturkey00stiliala#page/220/mode/2up page 220], the author became part of an exchange program. He ultimately was evacuated through Smyrna, initially by tug, out to the ship which lay off Phokea, outside the Gulf of Smyrna, on 1 November 1918.
:[https://archive.org/details/poemsincaptivity00stiluoft ''Poems in Captivity''] by John Still 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/warrecord00browuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''War Record of 4th Bn. King's Own Scottish Borderers and Lothians and Border Horse''] edited by W Sorley Brown 1920. Archive.org. Includes chapters on Gallipoli. Action on 12th July 1915 resulted in many men being killed, and 13 were captured. Includes from [https://archive.org/details/warrecord00browuoft/page/n81/mode/2up page 65], A Prisoner of War's Story, based on the diary of Sergt. A R Wood who subsequently died October 1918 at Smyrna during the repatriation process.
*[https://archive.org/details/secretsofkuttit00mous ''The Secrets of a Kuttite, an Authentic Story of Kut, Adventures in Captivity and Stamboul Intrigue''] by Captain E O Mousley, RFA 1921 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromkastamunito00woolgoog ''From Kastamuni to Kedos: Being a Record of Experiences of Prisoners of War in Turkey, 1916-1918''] by C L Woolley, Capt. RFA 1921. Archive.org. Note: Final pages, from page 178, are missing including part of "List of Orderlies". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Woolley Leonard Woolley] Wikipedia. He was an archaeologist, in Intelligence during the war, see [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.36027/page/87/mode/2up Chapter IV, "War Time Memories" page 88] from the book ''As I seem to remember'' (1962). In Agatha Christie’s ''Murder in Mesopotamia'', Dr Leidner, the chief, is a "barely concealed portrait" of Woolley.<ref>
*[https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7733856 ''First and Second Interim Reports from the Committee of Enquiry into Breaches of the Laws of War, with Appendices'' 3 June 1919] CAB 24/85/6 Records of the Cabinet Office, The National Archives. Link to a free download. Includes pages on Turkey/Ottoman Empire, including the march from Kut, (at page 194), Damascus Hospital (page 234). <ref> PRC. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/276732-ssgt-jem-brunskill-ramc-was-he-a-turkish-pow/?do=findComment&comment=2824064 S/Sgt J.E.M Brunskill RAMC - was he a Turkish POW ?] ''Great War Forum ''23 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.</ref>
*[http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/179.html Report on hospitals conditions for Prisoners of War in Nazareth and Damascus] The National Archives, FO 383/530. Report of Miss Edith Johncock, Matron of the British Hospital Nazareth, regarding the treatment of Prisoners of War (dated 1919). She had been Matron of the British Hospital in Nazareth from 1905, and became a prisoner of the Turks for four years, 3 years in Nazareth, and almost a year in Damascus. scarletfinders.co.uk
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014437605?urlappend=%3Bseq=25 ''Adventures in the Near East, 1918-1922''], by A. Rawlinson 1924 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014437605?urlappend=%3Bseq=348 Pages 272-333] describe the author's imprisonment, when on 18 March 1920, he, and four British soldiers he commanded, were arrested by Turkish Nationalist Troops and confined for 20 months, until exchanged for Turkish prisoners 31 October 1921. [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.524027/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*''Turkish Days and Ways'' by James Brown MD 1940. The author was a Scot who had lived in Australia most of his life who qualified as a doctor in Edinburgh during WW1 and became a Lieutenant RAMC. He was in a Field Ambulance, serving with a Brigade of Yeomanry at the time of capture at Katia near Romani, twenty three miles from the Suez Canal, c April 1916. He was a POW at Afyon Karahisar. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2232939 Catalogue details], [https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-2819290002 digital file] nla.gov.au.
*[https://archive.org/details/lostanzacsstoryo00greg/page/n3/mode/2up ''Lost Anzacs : the story of two brothers''] by Greg Kerr 1998. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. With extracts from the diaries of Australians George Kitchin Kerr, 1892-1965 and Hedley Kitchin, 1894-1915. Hedley died at Gallipoli and it was here George was captured, eventually spending years as a POW at Belemedik in Turkey.
*[https://archive.org/details/turkeygreatpower00earlrich ''Turkey, the Great Powers, and the Bagdad Railway : a study in Imperialism''] by Edward Mead Earle 1924 Archive.org with [https://archive.org/stream/turkeygreatpower00earlrich#page/n5/mode/2up Map 1918]
*[https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/140/mode/2up Description of a journey from Bozanti to Aleppo by (existing) rail, horse and road, via Alexandretta c 1915?] page 140 ''Memories of a Turkish Statesman, 1913-1919'' by Djemal Pasha, formerly…Imperial Ottoman Naval Minister, Commander of the Fourth Army in Sinai, Palestine and Syria. 1922 Archive.org. With [https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/n146/mode/1up Map probably of sections (or proposed sections) of the Baghdad Railway Adana to Aleppo] and showing the strategic port of Iskenderun (Alexandretta), facing page 140, and [https://archive.org/stream/memoriesofturkis00cemarich#page/n147/mode/1up Lower part of the this map, south west from Aleppo to Homs and the coast]
*[https://wwws3-ap-southeast-2.awmamazonaws.gov.aucom/imagesawm-media/collection/pdfRCDIG1069713/RCDIG1069713--1-document/5519202.pdf PDF "Chapter XXII – By Cattle-Truck Through the Taurus"], pages 309-324 [https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069872/ ''Gallipoli Mission''] by Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W) Bean (1st edition, 1948). Australian War Memorial website. This account relates to travel by Bean, of the Australian Historical Mission, during the months of February and March, 1919.
*[https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n108/mode/1up Page 89] ''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org indicates that after the War, Indian troops were guarding the railway line in the Taurus Mountains, and that there were Indian Field Post Offices in the vicinity.
*[http://www.levantineheritage.com/wolf.htm Extract pages from ''The Diplomatic History of the Baghdad Railway''] by John B. Wolf, ''University of Missouri Studies'', Volume XI, no 2, April 1936. Includes Content and most of the Bibliography pages, and a Map of Turkish Railways in 1914. levantineheritage.com
