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*Regimental histories and accounts
**[https://archive.org/details/insalonicawithou00lakerich ''In Salonica With Our Army''] by Harold Lake [1917]. Archive.org. Also published as [https://archive.org/details/campaigninginba01lakegoog ''Campaigning in the Balkans''] by Lieutenant Harold Lake, New York 1918. Archive.org. The author was with the British Army, an officer in what appears to be an infantry regiment. It is stated elsewhere he was with the Durham Light Infantry.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=XoHCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA26 Page 26] ''The Other Wars: The Experience and Memory of the First World War in the Middle East and Macedonia'' by Justin Fantauzzo. Sample pages Google Books.</ref>
**[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungenpurl/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 bsz40749670X ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles or 18th (County of London) Battalion, the London Regiment (London Irish Rifles), part of [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2/2nd London) Division]]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta (from December 1916, page 63), Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". [https://archive.org/details/glimpsesgreatwar/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version].
**[https://archive.org/details/second-twentieth-london-reg/page/n9/mode/2up'' The Second Twentieth being the History of the 2/20th Bn., London Regiment''] by Captain W R Elliot [1920] Archive.org. The Battalion served on the [[Western Front]], at Salonika, in [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt and Palestine]]. The Battalion was part of the 60th Division, see third following item.
**[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51387 ''The History of the Prince of Wales' Civil Service Rifles''] by several authors, including some named 1921. Gutenberg.org. Also known as 2/15th (County of London) Battalion (Prince of Wales’s Own Civil Service Rifles). The Battalion was part of the 179th Brigade , 60th Division in Salonika (from December 1916) and Palestine. [https://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/army/order-of-battle-of-divisions/60th-division/ 60th (2nd/2nd London) Division] (longlongtrail.co.uk)
