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*[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoloosbe00stewuoft ''From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer''] by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/lofclinesofcommu00agatrich ''L. of C. (Lines of Communication): being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps''] by Captain James E Agate 1917 Archive.org.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b283017?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''On the road from Mons with an Army Service Corps Train''] by its commander (Capt. A. Clifton-Shelton, A.S.C.) 2nd edition 1917. HathiTrust Digital Library/
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. The author was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division. Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum'' 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>
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*[https://archive.org/details/memoirofltcoledw00steeiala ''A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations''] 1921 Archive.org. During WW1 he was on the Western Front with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
*[http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph011568508 ''The War Diary of the Master of Belhaven, 1914-1918''] by Ralph GA Hamilton 1924. University of Oxford Digital Collection. Alternative [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/503077282.pdf direct pdf link], same website. Diary of the Hon. Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton, Master of Belhaven. Served as an interpreter with the Expeditionary Force in 1914 until wounded, returned to France in September 1915 as O/C “C” Bty., 108 Bde. Royal Field Artillery, 24th Div. Later rose to command the brigade. Killed in action 31st March 1918.
*[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.
*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/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish.
*[https://archive.org/details/bigfight00fall ''The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme'')] by Capt. David Fallon 1918 Archive.org. He served with the AIF (Australian Imperial Force) at Gallipoli , and subsequently became an officer with the [[43rd Regiment of Foot |Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]. He also flew as a military observer ([https://archive.org/stream/bigfight00fall#page/130/mode/2up "Chapter XI", page 131]), and briefly commanded a tank ([https://archive.org/stream/bigfight00fall#page/144/mode/2up "Chapter XII", page 144]).
*[https://archive.org/details/ifwereturnletter00manwrich/page/n5 ''If We Return; Letters of a Soldier of Kitchener's Army''] by G B Manwaring 1918 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofdeadoffic00westrich ''The Diary of a Dead Officer, being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West''], c 1918. Archive.org. Includes Part V "Poems". [https://archive.org/details/diary_dead_officer_rg_librivox Librivox audio version]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Graeme_West Arthur Graeme West] Wikipedia. He joined as a private; in August 1916 he became a second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
*[https://archive.org/details/privateinguards00grah ''A Private in the Guards''] by Stephen Graham 1919 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_(author) Stephen Graham (author)] Wikipedia. Also see a further book under [[Western Front#Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous]] below.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor ''A Handful of Ausseys''] by C. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front.
*[https://archive.org/details/howifilmedwarrec00malirich/page/n9 ''How I filmed the war; a record of the extraordinary experiences of the man who filmed the great Somme battles, etc.''] by Lieut Geoffrey H Malins 1920. Archive.org. For two years he was one of the official War Office Kinematographers, having previously done some free lance war work. [https://archive.org/details/how_filmed_war_rs_librivox ''How I Filmed the War'' LibriVox recording] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrich/page/n7 ''A Galloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures''] by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish 1920. Archive.org. Butler was ADC to the General of the 7th Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/combedout00voiguoft ''Combed Out''] by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
''Great War Forum'' 7 September 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref> and "More German Regimental histories due soon"<ref> charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/260146-more-german-regimental-histories-due-soon/ More German Regimental histories due soon] ''Great War Forum'' 12 April 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018</ref>. For some of the latter [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/kollektionen/ Search SLUB Dresden] Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) Dresden.
:German language digitised documents from State Archives of the Russian Federation. [http://tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1-deutsche-beuteakten-zum-ersten-weltkrieg-im-zentralarchiv-des-verteidigungsministeriums-der-russischen-f-deration-bestand-500-findbuch-12519 German language webpage], [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.germandocsinrussia.org%2Fde%2Fnodes%2F1-russisch-deutsches-projekt-zur-digitalisierung-deutscher-dokumente-in-den-archiven-der-russischen-f-deration&edit-text=&act=url Google Translate English webpage]. Includes KriegsTageBuch (KTB) and German maps. tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org
*[https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hedi/page/n7 ''With the German Armies in the West''] by Sven Hedin. Translated from the Swedish by H G de Walterstorff 1915 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/withgermanarmies00hediuoft/page/n7 Another version Archive.org] where illustrations may be clearer. The author travelled from Sweden, which was a neutral nation, so that he could view the war with his own eyes, and study the psychology of war.
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/34099 ''In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Stoßtruppführers''] by Ernst Jünger 1922. Gutenberg.org. German language. There are English translations, not available online, under the title [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_of_Steel ''Storm of Steel''] (Wikipedia).
