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*[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [First you must register. Only one person at a time is able to read the book, as in a 'real' library, so you may need to go on a waiting list]. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
:[https://archive.org/details/kindofsurvivor00chap/page/n7 ''A Kind of Survivor : the Autobiography of Guy Chapman''] 1975 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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:[https://archive.org/details/robertgravesassa00grav/page/n7 ''Robert Graves: the Assault Heroic, 1895-1926''] by Richard Perceval Graves [nephew] 1987 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*Siegfried Sassoon was an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. See his entry under [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below, which also includes a link to his handwritten Journals.
*[https://archive.org/details/brasshatinnomans00fran ''A Brass Hat in No Man's Land''] by Brig.-Gen. F P Crozier 1930. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.239768/page/n5 ''The Men I Killed''] by Brigadier General F P Crozier 1937 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Percy_Crozier Frank Percy Crozier] Wikipedia. He commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) Brigade and subsequently commanded the 119th (Welsh) Brigade. [https://theauxiliaries.com/men-alphabetical/men-c/crozier/crozier.html Biographical details, including obituary] theauxiliaries.com. For a book about Crozier's early Army experiences in West Africa 1901-5, see [[East Africa#Historical books online|East Africa]].
*[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
:[https://archive.org/details/kindofsurvivor00chap/page/n7 ''A Kind of Survivor : the Autobiography of Guy Chapman''] 1975 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/twelvedayswithfo0000roge/page/n7/mode/2up ''Twelve Days''] by Sidney Rogerson with a foreword by B. H. Liddell Hart, and eight drawings by Stanley Cursiter. 1933. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. "It deals with the “fag-end” of the Battles of the Somme in 1916". Subsequently reprinted under the title ''Twelve Days on the Somme : a Memoir of the Trenches, 1916''. The reprint description states Rogerson was in 2nd Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, B Company. [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236813123_Twelve_Days_on_the_Somme_A_Memoir_of_the_Trenches_1916_review Reprint review] researchgate.net. He was also the author of ''The Last of the Ebb'' (1937), reprinted as ''The Last of the Ebb : the Battle of the Aisne, 1918''.
*[http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/bookmark/scots-guard-by-w-h-g-ewart-university-of-oxford/ ''Scots Guard''] by W. H. G. Ewart [Wilfrid Herbert Gore] 1934. Posthumously published papers of Wilfrid Ewart, with reminisces of service as an officer with the Scots Guards from 1915 to the Armistice. Link to a pdf from the University of Oxford. [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/502760107.pdf Direct pdf]. Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]] below.
*[https://archive.org/details/frommonsto193300gera/page/n7 ''From Mons to 1933''] by Gerald Lowry 1934. Archive.org. A Lieutenant in the Special Reserve of the Royal Irish Rifles, he was blinded by a sniper on 26 October 1914. He subsequently qualified as a masseur, then as an osteopath.
