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:[https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-025 ''Fragments from France''] by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org. A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as ''The Bystander's Fragments from France''. [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Fragments1 ''Vol. I''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV2 ''More Fragments from France
Vol. II''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV3 ''Still more Fragments from France
Vol. III''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV4 ''Fragments from France
Vol. IV''] University of Wisconsin Digital Collections; [https://archive.org/details/morefragmentsfro00bair ''More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII''] c 1918 Archive.org.
:''From Mud to Mufti'' by Bruce Bairnsfather 1919 Archive.org [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairrich American edition, with American Preface], [https://archive.org/details/frommudtomuftiwi00bairuoft London edition].
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org. Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets page] listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/twentytwomonthsu00crof ''Twenty-two Months Under Fire''] by Henry Page Croft 1917 Archive.org. The author belonged to 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/oneyoungmansimpl01hodd/page/n5 ''One Young Man; the simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western Front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk''] edited by J E Hodder-Williams 1917 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/oneyoungman00willuoft/page/n5 Later edition] Archive.org which advises the young man was Reginald Davis, thought to be in D Company, 1/9th London Regiment (QVR (Queen Victoria's Rifles))<ref>bmac. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/44221-book-one-young-man-sidney-baxter-reginald-davis/?do=findComment&comment=371090 Book 'ONE YOUNG MAN': Sidney Baxter / Reginald Davis] ''Great War Forum'' 2 January 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2019.</ref>, a London territorial regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/trenchpicturesfr00redm ''Trench Pictures from France''] by Major William Redmond, MP [Member of Parliament], killed in action June 1917. [1917] Archive.org. The articles which make up the bulk of the book were originally contributed to the ''Daily Chronicle'' under a pseudonym. He joined the Royal Irish Division, Royal Irish Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/temporaryheroes00somm ''Temporary Heroes''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1917. Archive.org. With illustrations by the author. He was a Lieutenant, 1/4th Battalion Gordon Highlanders. Letters from February 22, 1915 to July 27, 1916. For another book see [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)]]
*[https://archive.org/details/adventuresofensi00will ''The Adventures of an Ensign''] by Vedette 1917 Archive.org "...the autobiography, thinly disguised as fiction and very cleverly written, of a subaltern who joined the Guards in France just before the battle of the Somme, in which he was wounded... The best chapters recount the magnificent advance of the Guards towards Lesboeufs on September 15th, 1916, the first day on which the tanks were used."<ref>[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-december-1917/14/books ''The Spectator'' 29 December 1917, page 14.], which now requires a subscription.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/letterstohiswife00vernrich/page/n8 ''Letters to his Wife''] by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org. He was a novelist commissioned in 5th (SR) Bn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 3rd Bn. in France 1915-16; wounded on the Somme; then with 12th (Service) Bn. 1917 & DoW post-Arras, 9/4/17.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, item 259</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref> On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets page] listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/irontimeswithgua00lond/page/n5 ''Iron Times with the Guards''] by An "O. E." ["O. E." Old Etonian; Geoffrey Philip Agnew Fildes, 2nd Coldstream Guards] 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish. "Published in the USA during the War, the purpose for writing was primarily to sway American opinion towards the Allied cause and not as a record of events".<ref name=LFH>[https://www.londonscottishregt.org/index.php/en/museum/archival-research/ww1 The London Scottish Regiment] londonscottishregt.org</ref>
