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* ''Memoirs Of A Camp Follower'' (1934) by Philip Gosse. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.523918 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Full title/some editions: ''Memoirs of a Camp-Follower : a Naturalist Goes to War''. At least one later edition published under the title ''A Naturalist Goes to War''. Includes the following [https://web.archive.org/web/20120420021830/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Rats/Rats_01a.htm extract] (archive.org) relating to his duties following his appointed as Rat Officer to the Second Army. The author was a doctor RAMC, in France and Belgium 1915-1917 who initially served with the 69th Field Ambulance, 23rd Division. He subsequently served in India. [http://jramc.bmj.com/content/63/3/210.full.pdf+html Review of the book]. JRAMC. Scroll to the end.
*[https://archive.org/details/regimentalsurgeo00dolb ''A Regimental Surgeon in War and Prison''] by Captain Robert V Dolbey, RAMC. 1917. Archive.org. The author was in France from August 1914, taken a Prisoner of War in October 1914, then repatriated from Germany c March 1915. He later took part in the campaign in [[East Africa (First World War)|East Africa]].
*[https://archive.org/details/onfourfrontswith00spar ''On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division''] by Geoffrey Sparrow MC, and J N MacBean Ross MC, Surgeons RN 1918 Archive.org. The Division was under the authority of the Admiralty until 29 April 1916. Includes the Antwerp Expedition in October 1914, and France from June 1916.
:[https://archive.org/details/JRNMSVOL3Images/page/n481 "With a Royal Marine Battalion in France"] by Temporary Surgeon J N MacBean Ross, Medical Officer, 2nd Battalion, Royal Marine Light Infantry. ''Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service'', Vol 3 1917, page 465. [https://liveicomgrshot.blob.core.windows.net/jrnmsfiles/articles/JRNMS_100_(2)_117-122.pdf Commentary on “With a Royal Marine Battalion in France”] Surg Lt Cdr JG Penn-Barwell ''J Royal Naval Medical Service'' 2014, Vol 100.2
*[https://archive.org/details/wadeinsanitary00rich ''Wade in, Sanitary! The Story of a Division Surgeon in France''] by Richard Derby Lt.-Col. USA, Division Surgeon, Second Division. 1919. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/39002011123297.med.yale.edu ''From a Surgeon's Journal : 1915-1918''] by Harvey Cushing 1936 Archive.org. The author, a neurosurgeon, was a volunteer with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance, and later was with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), and with the American Expeditionary Force (AEF).
:Transcribed editions by OCR, (optical character recognition) so subject to inaccuracies and without the original illustrations: [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume I], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/Deeds-that-Thrill-the-Empire-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/toc.html Volume II] of the two volume set. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Although some pages are acceptable, many are not, but they give an indication of the content of the book. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nvUgVYY3ew YouTube video] about the books and their illustrations.
:Available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01000891226
*Similar series of books, not currently available online :[https://web.archive.org/web/20120825165603/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/NewsMedia/I_Was_There_01.htm ''The Great War…I Was There! Undying Memories of 1914-1918''] (a description greatwardifferent.com, archived) edited by Sir John Hammerton originally published in 51 weekly parts 1938-39, (first appearing in the autumn of 1938, around the 20th anniversary of the end of the war), and also published in a three volume edition, 2020 pages ( v. 1. August 4, 1914, to July 1, 1916; v. 2. July 4, 1916, to October 22, 1917; v. 3. Oct. 1917 to Jan. 1919), the latter available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001581634BLL0100158163. There was also a four volume reprint by Waverley.:The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website [[findmypast]], titled [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-the-great-war-i-was-there Britain, The Great War, I Was There] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in page order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.
==== In the Air====
*[https://archive.org/details/overtherebackint01smit/page/n7 ''Over there and back in three uniforms, being the experiences of an American boy in the Canadian, British and American armies at the front and through No man's land''] by Joseph Shuter Smith 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. The contents were "chosen by the philosopher Cyril Joad who also wrote the preface … Joad was a pacifist and conscientious objector and uses his preface to promote his own notions about the futility of war. It has been alleged that Joad was highly selective regarding his choice of West’s writings".<ref>ilkley remembers. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/189986-great-war-autobiographies-anonymous/?do=findComment&comment=2745047 [Great War<nowiki>]</nowiki> Autobiographies Anonymous] ''Great War Forum'' 1 March 2019. Retrieved 2 November 2019.</ref>
*''On Four Fronts with the Royal Naval Division'' published 1918. See [[Western Front#Medical Services including Veterinary|Medical Services]] above.
*''The Diary of a German Soldier'' by Feldwebel C… , published in French in 1918. See [[Western Front#German Army|German Army]] below.
*[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.
