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*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersdiary00scotuoft ''A Soldier's Diary''] by Ralph Scott [George Scott Atkinson, Royal Engineers] 1923. Archive.org. Sapper officer’s day-to-day diary with 2nd Army in the Ypres Salient, April- Nov. 1918.
*''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
*''Tunnellers: The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World War'' by W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman 1936 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/tunnellers/ ''Tunnellers''] Naval & Military Press</ref>, which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19ShKtXFUU online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3].
====Infantry and others====
*[https://archive.org/details/withmyregimentfr00millrich ''With my Regiment; From the Aisne to La Bassée''] by "Platoon Commander" <nowiki>[</nowiki>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_F._H._Mills Arthur F. H. Mills] (Wikipedia)] 1915 Archive.org. Book No. 1 in the series ''Soldiers’ Tales of the Great War.'' It is stated elsewhere he was in the 1st Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry.
