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*''Everyman at War: Sixty Personal Narratives of the War'' edited by C. B. Purdom 1930. Accounts were submitted after a request by the editor of ''Everyman'' magazine. A number of the accounts have been transcribed on [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm Memoirs & Diaries] firstworldwar.com including [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/firstgasattack.htm "The First Gas Attack"] by Anthony R. Hossack, Queen Victoria Rifles [9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment]. To locate other entries, either scroll through all entries in the Memoirs & Diaries category or use your Search engine, with terms "Everyman at War" firstworldwar.com/diaries . Available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006523443 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University Library access.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersoffall00emil/page/n5 ''War Letters of Fallen Englishmen''] edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org
*''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''. Published c 1917 as a two volume set, c 900 pages, and also published as a five volume set. Information about the contents<refname=DTE>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/deeds-that-thrill-the-empiretrue-stories-of-the-most-glorious-acts-of-heroism-of-the-empires-soldiers-and-sailors-during-the-great-war/ ''Deeds that Thrill the Empire. True stories of the most glorious acts of heroism of the Empire's soldiers and sailors during the Great War''] naval-military-press.com</ref> advises 56 VCs are covered.
: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: BLL01000891226and in a reprint edition.<ref name=DTE/>
*[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 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 (Amalgamated Press)), the latter available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001581634 . 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, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. 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 image 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & Air Battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a well regarded series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the Teeth of the Wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett, edited by his son Nick Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''. Catalogue entry states "Revised edition of: ''Bomber pilot, 1916-1918''. London : Ian Allan Ltd., 1974", the latter edited by Chaz Bowyer.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.
*[https://archive.org/details/millionairesunit00wort ''The Millionaire's Unit: the aristocratic flyboys who fought the Great War and invented America's airpower''] by Marc Wortman 2006. Archive.org Lending Library.
