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Infantry and others
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/wardiaryofsquare00mgrich/page/48 Page 48] ''The War Diary of a Square Peg. With a Dictionary of War Words'' by Maximilian A Mügge. 1920 Archive.org. Although the author was a British citizen and had volunteered, as an "enemy alien Briton", he was transferred to a non-combatant corps (N C C ) where conscientious objectors were usually sent, with which he served in France for a few months late May-August 1916. The NCCs were not well regarded. He was soon transferred again to an Infantry Works Battalion in England which he calls "a political concentration camp".
*[https://archive.org/details/reminiscencesofg00fryerich/page/n7 ''Reminiscences of a Grenadier, 1914-1919''] by E R M Fryer 1921 Archive.org. He initially was a private in the H. A.C., then went to Cadet School and was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards.
*[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. The author was a Lieutenant in the United States Army, and subsequently became an author and poet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Allen Hervey Allen] Wikipedia.
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