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== External links ==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120922025835/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Copy_index.htm The Great War in a Different Light], now an archived website. “Accounts and Galleries from Great War Period Books, Magazines and Publications with more than 8000 Authentic Photos, Illustrations and Newsarticles”. Mainly relates to the Western Front.
*First World War regimental diaries of the Indian Infantry units deployed to the Western Front are available online to download via The National Archives's [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/first-world-war/ First World War 100] portal.<ref> [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/news/962.htm Indian infantry unit war diaries go online] The National Archives</ref> At September 2014, 171 were available. They are not personal diaries. See TNA’s [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/war-diaries-ww1.htm British Army war diaries 1914-1922] for more details about this type of record. Searching is free, but there may be a charge to download documents. For alternative sources of access such as Ancestry, and more details see [[First World War#The National Archives|First World War - The National Archives]].
*[http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwone/india_wwone_01.shtml India and the Western Front] Article by Dr David Omissi on BBC History website.
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20151029054959/http://www.cwgc.org/foreverindia/stories/khudadad-khan-ghulam-haider-hollebke-east-africa.php Khudadad Khan and Ghulam Haider of the 129th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Baluchis] cwgc.org, now an archived webpage. For his remarkable courage, at the village of Hollebeke, near Ypres in Belgium. Khudadad Khan was the first Indian soldier to be awarded the Victoria Cross.
:[http://www.nam.ac.uk/events/lunchtime-lectures/video-archive/illiterate-literary-censored-correspondence-indian-soldiers- Video and transcript: "Illiterate but Literary: The Censored Correspondence of Indian Soldiers in France, 1914-18"] by Dr David Omissi, recorded on 2 November 2015 nam.ac.uk, including YouTube video.
:See Historical books online, below.
*Podcast: [http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/india-first-world-war/ India in the First World War] William Spencer and others. 12 March 2015. The National Archives. The battle of Neuve Chapelle.
*[https://undereveryleaf.wordpress.com/2014/06/30/the-indian-memorial-at-neuve-chapelle/ The Indian Memorial at Neuve Chapelle] with Photographs. undereveryleaf.wordpress.com
:[http://www.ww1cemeteries.com/othercemeteries/neuvechapelleindian.htm Neuve Chapelle Memorial] ww1cemeteries.com
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/523918 ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower''(1934)] by Philip Gosse. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. Full title/some editions: ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed as Rat Officer to the Second Army. The author was a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917 who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC.1917. Archive.org. The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
*[https://archive.org/details/womenasarmysurg00murr ''Women as Army Surgeons; being the history of the Women's Hospital Corps in Paris, Wimereux and Endell Street, September 1914-October 1919''] by Flora Murray 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/ArnoldLeeseOutOfStep ''Out of Step: Events in the Two Lives of an Anti-Jewish Camel-Doctor''] by Arnold Spencer Leese. 1951 Archive.org. Born 1878, during WW1 Leese was an Army Veterinary Surgeon on the Western Front working with horses, and also purchased camels for the Army. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist polititian.
*[https://archive.org/details/secretservice00geor ''Secret Service''] by Major-General Sir George Aston, formerly of the Naval Intelligence Department and the Secretariat of the War Cabinet 1930 Archive.org
