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**[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA366808 ''Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I''] by George K Williams 1999. Archive.org.
*[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 mention of Train Ferries from 1917. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes chapters on France, and chapters on the Royal Marine Artillery.
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/a_record_of_the_battles_and_engagements_of_the_british_armies_1914-1918_0.pdf ''A Record of the Battles and Engagements of the British Armies in France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by Captain E A James 48th (South Midland) Divisional Signals T A 1924. army.gov.au
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/g/files/net1846/f/the_western_front_-_a_general_outline_by_major_alan_b_steele_0.pdf ''The Western Front: A General Outline''] by Major Alan B. Steele, Australian Staff Corps 1930. Written following a lecture in 1930 and “designed to assist officers in the detailed study of this campaign". Australian Army website.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209654/page/n249 WW1 period] page 241 ''Sword And Stirrup'' by Hervey De Montmorency 1936 Archive.org. Initially the author commanded D Battery, 75th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. After the war he worked as an Intelligence Officer in Ireland.
*[https://archive.org/details/momentsofmemoryr011518mbp/page/n9 ''Moments of Memory: Recollections and Impressions''] by Herbert Asquith 1938. Archive.org. The author was the son of H H Asquith who was Prime Minister of Great Britain at the commencement of the war until December 1916, and an officer in the Royal Marine Artillery. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Asquith_(poet) Herbert Asquith (poet)]
*The Royal Marine Artillery was part of the Royal Marines. For chapters in a history, see [[Western Front#Histories and general|Histories and general, above]].
*Also see In The Air, below, for letters of George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.
*Also see Fiction below for sketches written by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, an officer in the Royal Artillery.
*[https://archive.org/details/liddellhartmemoi00lidd ''The Liddell Hart Memoirs 1895-1938 Volume I''] 1965. Archive.org Lending Library. The author became an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia. Military historian and military theorist.
*[https://archive.org/details/cannonfodderinfa00dold ''Cannon Fodder : An Infantryman's Life on the Western Front, 1914-18''] by A Stuart Dolden 1980 Archive.org Lending Library. “Dolden was a solicitor who enlisted as a Private soldier …an excellent account of the life of an enlisted man, sometime bomber, sometime cook in D Company, 1st/14th London Regiment …a must read for those who want to know “what it was like”.”<ref name=LFH/>
*For a record of the "Sea Soldiers" of The Royal Marines, see [[Western Front#Histories and general|Histories and general, above]].
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