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**''Volume I August-October 1914'': [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio01edmouoft 1922 edition], [https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera01edmouoft Revised text 1937 edition]
**[https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera02edmouoft ''Volume II October-November 1914''] 1925 Archive.org
**From the Digital Library of India, available as pdf downloads. Note mirror versions of these files are available on Archive.org, in time with the ability to read online, or download. One volume from HathiTrust.
***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210675 1915 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210675 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210676 1915 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210676 Archive.org]
***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210679 1916 Volume I] , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210679 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210677 1916 Appendices, Volume I] , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210677 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210680 1916 Volume II] , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210680 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210678 1916, Appendices, Volume II] , [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210678 Archive.org].
**:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3480009?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''1917 Volume II 7th June-10th November Messines and Third Ypres (Passchendaele)''] published 1948. HathiTrust Digital Library.
***[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210686 1918]: The great German offensive [21st March 1918] and its preliminaries (1935), [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210686 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210684 1918 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210684 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210685 Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210685 Archive.org]
*[https://archive.org/details/indiancorpsinfra00ltco ''The Indian Corps in France''] by Lt-Colonel J.W.B. Merewether and Sir Frederick Smith, 1918 which appears to be a simple reprint of the first edition December 1917. Archive.org. A 1919 revised second edition 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. The 1919 second edition is also available as three different pdf downloads on the Digital Library of India: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/54096 Pdf 1], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.54096 Archive.orgmirror version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/173047 Pdf 2], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.173047 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/201725 Pdf 3], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.201725 Archive.org]
*[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
*[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by A G Lind DSO 1933. Wikimedia Commons. Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link] [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. May be slow to open. Includes France 1914-1915.
*''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://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/84806 Pdf to download from the Digital Library of India], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84806 Archive.orgmirror version]
:[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].
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069749/ ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918'']. The 12 Volumes include France. Australian War Memorial website.
*[https://archive.org/details/germanairforcein00gurduoft ''The German Air Force in the Great War''] by Major Georg Paul Neumann, late of the German Air Force, translated by J E Gurdon 1920 Archive.org. From the original [https://archive.org/details/diedeutschenluf00neumgoog ''Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege''] 1920 Archive.org.
*Some Regimental and Divisional Histories, and some Manuals from the British Library Digital Collection may be accessed by [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do Searching the British Library Main Catalogue], using search term such as Army Great Britain or War Office Great Britain, or specific search terms. Then use side filters, Online, Books. Note: Selecting the filter for date does not appear to be accurate, so it is best to re-order the Search results according to date, and then select those applicable to WW1.
*[http://www.new.dli.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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.orgmirror version] 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://www.new.dli.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. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274726 Archive.orgmirror version] . 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.
*[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/wadeinsanitary00rich ''Wade in, Sanitary! The Story of a Division Surgeon in France''] by Richard Derby Lt.-Col. USA, Division Surgeon, Second Division. 1919. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/39002011123297.med.yale.edu ''From a Surgeon's Journal : 1915-1918''] by Harvey Cushing 1936 Archive.org. The author, a neurosurgeon, was a volunteer with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance, and later was with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), and with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).
*[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/onbattlescarredf00luri ''On the Battle-Scarred Fields of France. A Physician's Impressions of the Medical Services of both French and German Armies''] by Adolfo Luria 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/backwashofwar00lamoiala ''The Backwash of War: The Human Wreckage of the Battlefield as Witnessed by an American Hospital Nurse''] by Ellen N. La Motte 1916. Archive.org. The author worked in a French military field hospital, situated ten kilometres behind the lines, in Belgium. The dedication in the book indicates the hospital was run by Mary Borden-Turner, see previous entry.
*[https://archive.org/details/vr76frenchmilita00reckrich ''V.R. 76 : a French Military Hospital''] by Harold James Reckitt. 1921. Archive.org. A military hospital with a non-military administration. (Fondation Johnstone-Reckitt). The author was a previous British MP, with a family history of philanthropy.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersofamer00vanviala ''War Letters of an American Woman''] by Marie Van Vorst. 1916 Archive.org. A novelist, she worked as a volunteer nurse at the American Ambulance [Hospital]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Van_Vorst Wikipedia]
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryoffrencharm00klei ''Diary of a French Army Chaplain''] by Abbé Félix Klein, American Hospital, Neuilly, Paris. Translated by M. Harriet M Capes. 1915 Archive.org. Original title ''La Guerre vue d’une Ambulance'', par l'abbé Félix Klein, aumônier de l'Ambulance américaine.
*[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, with a prior short period in East Africa, and later also purchased camels for the Army in Somaliland. In the late 1920s he became a British Fascist politician.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 ''Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German Army which participated in the war (1914-1918)''] Compiled from records of Intelligence Section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces at General Headquarters, Chaumont France 1919. Published 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3NG25HN72MPUGPHOB7GZHRKQOETGF57Q Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter. [...<nowiki>]</nowiki>, Ehemals preußische Truppenteile] 44 German Army Regimental online histories, (German language), from Deutsche Digital Bibliothek, from the collection of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
:[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=141&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 Die württembergischen Regimenter im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918] Links to multiple volumes of different württembergischen Regimenter (German language). Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. If URL Is not permanent, use [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start/ Suchen].Also from this website [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=6955&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Kriegsgeschichte der 12. Batterie Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr 13''],
:[http://www.wbc.poznan.pl/dlibra Digital Library of Wielkopolska (Network of Polish Digital Libraries}] contains some online German Regimental Histories (German language).<ref>charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/232455-free-german-regimental-history-books/&do=findComment&comment=2520070 Free German Regimental History Books] ''Great War Forum'' 1 May 2017. Retrieved 4 May 2017.</ref>
: Links to further regimental histories (German language) may be found in the ''Great War Forum'' thread "Free German Regimental History Books".<ref>charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/232455-free-german-regimental-history-books/?do=findComment&comment=2561910 Free German Regimental History Books]
