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*[https://archive.org/details/americanfighters00paul ''American Fighters in the Foreign Legion, 1914-1918''] by Paul Ayres Rockwell 1930 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/sky00blai ''Sky: Memoirs''] by Blaise Cendrars [pseudonym], translated by Nina Rootes 1992, originally published in French as ''Le Lotissement du ciel'' 1949. [https://archive.org/details/skymemoirs00cend 2nd file] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. A volume in the author’s war memoirs tetralogy, which includes WW1 chapters. Swiss born, during WWI he joined the French Foreign Legion and served in France, where he lost an arm. [https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2007/jul/23/thehazyworldofblaisecendr "The hazy world of Blaise Cendrars"] by Lee Rourke 23 July 2007 ''The Guardian''. "Cendrars eschews biographical detail and morphs fact and fiction". The other volumes in the tetralogy are ''Astonished Man'' (''L 'Homme foudroyé'', 1945), ''Lice'' (''La main coupée'', 1946), ''Planus'' (''Bourlinguer'', 1948). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Cendrars Blaise Cendrars] Wikipedia.
*[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Alexander,_1st_Earl_Alexander_of_Tunis Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis] Wikipedia. During WW1, he was in the Irish Guards, initially Lieutenant 1st Battalion, appointed Commander 2nd Irish Guards in October 1917, aged 25. For online biographies published 1952-1973, containing chapters on WW1, see [[Second World War#Historical books online|Second World War - Historical books online]] and scroll down.
*[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/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. The initial four chapters are Purcell's account of his time as a young officer with the 11th (Service) Battalion of the Green Howards, including his time as a Prisoner of War.
