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*[https://archive.org/details/subalternonsomme00mark ''A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916''] by Mark VII [Max Plowman] 1928, first published 1927. Archive.org. 10th West Yorks. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
: He had previously written [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89101084432?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''War and the creative impulse''] by Max Plowman; with preface by Henry W. Nevinson. 1919 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Plowman Max Plowman] (Wikipedia), actual name Mark.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208835/page/n7 ''A Subaltern’s War''] by Charles Edmonds (pseud.) [Charles Edmund Carrington] 1929 Archive.org. Full title ''A Subaltern’s War being a memoir of the Great War from the point of view of a romantic young man, with candid accounts of two particular battles, written shortly after they occurred, and an essay on militarism''. Carrington was a Lieutenant in the 1/5th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/not-disillusioned-charles-carrington-8-best-world-war-i-memoir/ "Not Disillusioned: A Subaltern’s War, #8 Best World War I Memoir"] by Edward Lengel, author . On a list of ''World "highly personal top 20 War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919''Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>.
*[https://archive.org/details/wearyroadrecolle0000doui/page/n7 ''The Weary Road : Recollections of a Subaltern of Infantry''] by Charles Douie 1988, first published 1929. Archive.org Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. In August 1914 he joined “a Territorial unit of the 51st Highland Division”. He was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 7th (Service) Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment (9 January 1915) and subsequently transferred to the 1/Dorsets, joining them in France 15 February 1916.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n5 ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War''] with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell according to a page from [https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/bibliography/a-lifes-work/a-soldiers-diary-of-the-great-war henrywilliamson.co.uk]. Bell was with different battalions of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, and then joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org. Subaltern in Royal Sussex at the Somme & Passchendaele. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/a-pastoralist-at-war-edmund-blundens-undertones-of-war/ #4 of the top ten personal accounts] by Edward Lengel. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.447392 ''Goodbye To All That''] by Robert Graves. New edition revised, November 1957, 2nd edition March 1958. First published 1929. Archive.org. (Catalogued with a different author). Graves was in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a Special Reserves Officer, (more details <ref>Muerrisch.
[https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/275482-goodbye-to-all-that-fact-or-fiction/?do=findComment&comment=2817167 "Goodbye to all that" = Fact or Fiction?] ''Great War Forum'' 4 November 2019. Retrieved 6 November 2019.</ref>.) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Robert Graves] Wikipedia.
