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**[https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera02edmouoft ''Volume II October-November 1914''] 1925 Archive.org
**From the Digital Library of India, available as pdf downloads
***[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210675 1915 Volume I], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210676 1915 Volume II]***[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210678 1916], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210679 1916 Volume I], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210680 1916 Volume II], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210677 1916 Appendices]***[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210683 1917 Volume I], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210681 1917 Appendices] probably to Volume I. (Volume II details follow later).***[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210686 1918]: The great German offensive [21st March 1918] and its preliminaries (1935), [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210684 1918 Volume II], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210685 Volume III]
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3480009?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''1917 Volume II 7th June-10th November Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele)''] published 1948. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b633844?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Transportation on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] compiled by Colonel AM Henniker, R E (ret) 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/84806 Pdf to download from the Digital Library of India]
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6454756 Volume of 14 Maps] National Library of Australia, with a description in the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn6454756 catalogue entry].
*French Official Histories: [http://www.memoiredeshommes.sga.defense.gouv.fr/fr/arkotheque/inventaires/ead_ir_consult.php?fam=11&ref=FRSHD_AFGG_ead ''Les Armées françaises dans la Grande Guerre''] sga.defense.gouv.fr. Eleven ''Tome''s, some with multiple volumes, mostly about the Western Front. With online maps (Cartes) and at times panoramic sketches (Croquis panoramiques).
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II''] by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force.
*[https://archive.org/details/armyservicecorps00puck ''Army Service Corps of the British Army, and, the organization of the transport and transportation at the front in France : lectures delivered before the officers of the Quartermaster Corps and Quartermaster Reserve Corps at Washington, D.C., May 1917''] by Lieut. Col. F K Puckle, A S C, British Army. Archive.org.
*[http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/274726 ''A History of the Army Ordnance Services, Volume III: The Great War''] by Major General Arthur Forbes 2nd edition 1932, first published 1929. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Includes chapters on the Western Front (Part I).
*[https://archive.org/details/signalserviceine00prie ''The Signal Service in the European War of 1914-1918 (France)''] by R E Priestley (Late Major, R E) 1921 Archive.org. Includes information about the use of [https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/357/mode/1up carrier pigeons] (Index entry)
**[https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/10/mode/2up/search/Indian Page 11] includes a very brief reference to the Indian Telegraph units of the Indian Army. These were very likely to have been men from the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India, who were appointed to the Army at the outbreak of war. Also see the following book.
***IOR/L/MIL/5/827/1-6 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/1 Dec 1916-Feb 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/2 Feb 1917-May 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/3 Apr 1917-Jul 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/4 May 1917-Oct 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/5 Aug 1917-Dec 1917], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/827/6 Dec 1917-Mar 1918]
***IOR/L/MIL/5/828/1-3 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/828/1 Jul 1915-May 1918], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/828/2 Dec 1914-Jul 1918], [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=IOR/L/MIL/5/828/3 Jun 1915-May 1918]
*[https://archive.org/details/indiancorpsinfra00ltco ''The Indian Corps in France''] by Lt-Colonel J.W.B. Merewether and Sir Frederick Smith. Second edition 1919 (first edition December 1917) Archive.org. To read the book you may require a BitTorrent plug in. Another version from archive.org is catalogued as [https://archive.org/details/TheIndianCorpsInRance ''The Indian Corps in Rance''] and may require a DjVu plug in, or individual pages can be accessed which use the Tiff format. This book is also available as three different pdf downloads on the Digital Library of India: [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/54096 Pdf 1], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/173047 Pdf 2], [http://dliwww.sercnew.iiscdli.ernet.in/handle/2015/201725 Pdf 3].
*[http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/n3/mode/2up ''With the Indians in France''] by Sir James Willcocks 1920 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/382/mode/2up Index], page 383
**[http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/346/mode/2up List of 'Promotions and Rewards'] page 347-382
