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*[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]).
*''Keeling letters & recollections''. [Frederic Hillersdon Keeling [Ben]] Edited by E.T. [Townshend, Mrs. (Emily)] 1918. The war years start [https://archive.org/details/keelinglettersre00keeluoft/page/182 page 183]. Archive.org. A committed socialist, it appears he became a private, and later Sergeant-Major, in the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (although the text initially says Duke of York’s). [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/collected-writings-of-john-maynard-keynes/frederic-hillersdon-keeling/6534E545B637EE1D68312EAEDD94B9E6 Summary of a chapter] titled "Frederic Hillersdon Keeling" from ''The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes''. cambridge.org [http://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/archive/frederic-hillersdon-keeling/ Biographical details] winchestercollegeatwar.com
*[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/in.ernet.dli.2015.239768/page/n5 ''The Men I Killed''] by Brigadier General F P Crozier 1937 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Percy_Crozier Frank Percy Crozier] Wikipedia. He commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) Brigade and subsequently commanded the 119th (Welsh) Brigade.
*''My Story of the Great War'' by Captain O H Woodward [Oliver Holmes], 1st Tunnelling Company AIF. Published Adelaide SA 1932. 1933 title: ''The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force''. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?sortby=dateAsc&q=%22MR+WOODWARD%27S+WAR+BOOK%22 A series of 17 extracts] appearing weekly in ''The Recorder'' Port Pirie, SA, 25 February 1933 to 17 June 1933, with [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991145 Introductory article] and [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991147 book review] both 13 February 1933, same newspaper. trove.nla.gov.au. Includes the firing of Hill 60 mines. Pre war, the author held a senior position in a mining company. [http://www.tunnellers.net/files/1stausttunnellingcoy.pdf Brief Chronology of the 1st Aust Tunnelling Coy, allocated to the Second Army] tunnellers.net
*[http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/scots-guard-by-w-h-g-ewart-university-of-oxford/ ''Scots Guard''] by W. H. G. Ewart [Wilfrid Herbert Gore] 1934. Posthumously published papers of Wilfrid Ewart, with reminisces of service as an officer with the Scots Guards from 1915 to the Armistice. Link to a pdf from the University of Oxford. [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/502760107.pdf Direct pdf]. Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]] below.
*[https://archive.org/details/frommonsto193300gera/page/n7 ''From Mons to 1933''] by Gerald Lowry 1934. Archive.org. A Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Royal Irish Rifles, he was blinded by a sniper on 26 October 1914. He subsequently qualified as a masseur, then as an osteopath.
* "The Winter of 1916-17" by Capt G D Mitchell 10th and 48th Battns AIF, a series of articles appearing in ''Reveille'', published by The Returned and Services League of Australia New South Wales Branch, commencing in [http://reveille.dlconsulting.com/cgi-bin/reveille?a=d&d=RV193412.1.17&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN------ December 1934, page 15 (digital 17)] and continuing each month to at least October 1935. reveille.dlconsulting.com. Scroll from one issue to the next.There is reference elsewhere to further articles in Feb 1936 and Sept/Oct 1936. [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/mitchell-george-deane-11137 Mitchell, George Deane (1894–1961)] Australian Dictionary of Biography. Also see [[Gallipoli]] for another series of articles.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.2458 ''Verdun''] ''The Prelude'', and ''The Battle'' by Jules Romains. Translated from the French by Gerard Hopkins. 1940, first published in English 1939. Archive.org Note: Lacks title page. Book 15 ''Prélude à Verdun'' and Book 16 ''Verdun'' (published 1938), Volume 8 (some editions), from the 27 volume series ''Men of Goodwill'' (''Les Hommes de bonne volonté''). [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.264814 2nd Archive.org file]
*[https://archive.org/details/peterjacksonciga00franiala ''Peter Jackson, Cigar Merchant : a Romance of Married Life''] by Gilbert Frankau Seventh edition 1920. Archive.org. This book "is semi-autobiographical and gives an excellent feel for life as a Kitchener volunteer officer in both the infantry and then the RFA 1914-16… it was also one of the first books to reveal to the general public what Shell Shock was all about. A classic".<ref>charlesmessenger [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/244799-casemate-books-a-question/?do=findComment&comment=2463024 Casemate Books - a question] ''Great War Forum'' 12 November 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/wayofrevelationn00ewarrich/page/n5 ''Way of revelation : a novel of five years''] by Wilfrid Ewart 1922 Archive.org. Ewart was an officer in the Scots Guards, refer [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]] above.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.207934/page/n5 ''The Spanish Farm Trilogy 1914-1918''] by R H Mottram, originally published 1924-1926. ''Trilogy'' edition 1927 Archive.org. [https://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-rh-mottram-trilogy-20151210-story.html "The underappreciation of R. H. Mottram's World War I novels"] by Patrick Reardon 10 December 2015 ''Chicago Tribune''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Hale_Mottram Ralph Hale Mottram] Wikipedia.
*Sketches by Boyd Cable, the nom de plume of Ernest Andrew Ewart, who was appointed Temporary Second Lieutenant 2nd September 1914 in the Royal Artillery where he served in France. By February 1917 he was Acting Captain while commanding a section of a Divisional Ammunition Column. In June 1918 he was awarded an OBE [Officer of the Order of the British Empire] at which time he was Captain, Propaganda Branch, Aircraft Production Department, Ministry of Munitions. Appointed Acting Lt-Colonel, whilst specially employed 12 November 1918.<ref> Details from the ''London Gazette''.</ref>
:[https://archive.org/details/betweenlines00cabl ''Between the Lines''] by Boyd Cable 3rd edition 1917, first published October 1915 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/between_the_lines_dhd_librivox Librivox Audiobook ''Between the Lines''], read by Delmar H Dolbier. Archive.org.
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