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*''History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery : the Forgotten Fronts and the Home Base 1914-18'' by Sir Martin Farndale 1988. Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01008145796
*''Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.''. Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Coy, 107th. Author may also be listed as M J Rattray. Published 1918. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096078 . "The first of 2 volumes recording the unit's services in Macedonia/Salonica".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191203025151/https://www.turnerdonovan.com/booksPDS.aspx?stockNo=57465&mv=2&sn=1 Turner Donovan Military Books]</ref>
:A further volume ''Further Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.'' [in Macedonia, 1915-1918]. Author: Great Britain. Army. Royal Engineers. Field Coy, 107th. Author may also be listed as "Sapper J Robertson and Former Lieutenant M J Rattray". Published published 1920, is now available online, refer below. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001096079
*''The Railway Gazette Special War Transportation Number'', originally published in September 1920, as part of ''The Railway Gazette and Railway News''. Described at the time as ‘the first connected account’ of the role of railways and inland water transport in supporting the British military campaign during the Great War of 1914-18. Contains a wealth of detail on operations on most Fronts inc. the organisation of wartime transportation; statistics and Fronts, including Railway Operations in Macedonia, Mesopotamia, Palestine & East Africa. Available at the British Library as part of UIN: BLL01013904893 or in a 2013 reprint edition UIN: BLL01016871224. Also available in a reprint edition<ref> [https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/railway-gazette-special-great-war-transportation-number/ ''Railway Gazette – Special Great War Transportation Number''] Naval & Military Press.</ref>.
:"An Unofficial History of the Signal Service with the British Salonika Force 1915-1918" by Capt C C S White ''The Royal Engineers Journal''. nzsappers.org.nz
:[https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1926-December.pdf Part 1] Scroll to pages 647-658 (the digital file commences page 537) Vol XL No 4 December 1926; and [https://www.nzsappers.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/1927-March.pdf Part 2] Scroll to pages 97-108 Vol XLI No 1 March 1927. The latter also includes the Occupation of Constantinople, see [[Norperforce]].
:[https://archive.org/details/further-rec-107th-fc/page/n5/mode/2up ''Further Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R. E''] 1920 Archive.org. Elsewhere the editors are stated to be "Sapper J Robertson and former Lieutenant M J Rattray", of 107th Field Coy., Royal Engineers. The second of two volumes of history of this Field Company of the Royal Engineers during the First World War, the first volume being ''Collections and Recollections of 107th Field Coy., R.E.'', published in 1918.
:''The War Diary of 8 Field Survey Company R.E. British Salonika Force from 1 January 1917 to 10 April 1919''. Transcribed from a National Archives, Kew document. [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers: Defence Surveyors' Association] Scroll down. [https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_0fee415699a447ebbb9adae3a2339a08.pdf Direct pdf link].
:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
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