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*[https://archive.org/details/fromcloistertoca00deva/page/n7 ''From Cloister to Camp : being reminiscences of a priest in France, 1915-1918''] by Fr Dominic Devas OFM. 1919 Archive.org. He was a Franciscan and RC Chaplain , British Army. He was initially attached to the 1/1 South Midland Field Ambulance
====Despatch Riders====
*''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''. ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Nos 197 and 198, May 1915 - September 1915. [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft/page/576 Pages 577-612], [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft/page/842 pages 842- 859], [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft/page/112 pages 113-138], [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft/page/246 pages 247-271], [https://archive.org/details/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft/page/388 pages 389-397] Archive.org:Later in 1915 published as [https://archive.org/details/advdespatchrider00watsuoft ''Adventures of a Despatch Rider''] by Captain WHL Watson, 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated However, some of the text differs between that editions after the first published in ''Blackwood’s Magazine''.<ref>vintagesunbeam. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/209447-2-german-staff-cars-captured-by-2nd-bn-dwr-01091914/?do=findComment&comment=2822459 2 German Staff Cars Captured by 2nd Bn DWR 01/09/1914] ''Great War Forum'' 18 November 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.</ref> Also published in 1917 in an edition were heavily edited for censorship reasons, but as this edition was published in 1915, it may be the original edition.
:Captain WHL Watson was also the author of ''Tales of a Gaspipe Officer'' by Despatch Rider. ‘Military cyclists are popularly known as Gaspipe Cavalry’ ''Blackwood’s Magazine'' Nos 198, 199 and 201, December 1915-March 1916, and January 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi198edinuoft#page/794/mode/2up/ Page 795], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/76/mode/2up page 76], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/246/mode/2up page 246], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi199edinuoft#page/360/mode/2up page 360], [https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi201edinuoft#page/44/mode/2up/ page 45].
*[https://archive.org/details/daredevilofarmye00aust ''The Daredevil of the Army : Experiences as a "Buzzer" and Despatch Rider''] by Captain A P Corcoran 1918 Archive.org
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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.
