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====Engineers====
*[https://archive.org/details/riddleofrhineche00lefeuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Riddle of the Rhine, Chemical Strategy in Peace and War''] by Victor Lefebure, originally published 1921. Archive.org. Commissioned into the 3rd Essex Regiment, he was transferred to the Special Brigade, RE, where he was a Company Commander. In 1917 he was appointed British Chemical Warfare Liaison Officer with the French.
*''"Gas!" The Story of the Special Brigade'' by Maj-Gen C.H Foulkes 1934 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/gas-the-story-of-the-special-brigade/ ''"Gas!" The Story of the Special Brigade''] Naval & Military Press</ref>, which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/310/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19TF4S_XPP online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3].
*[https://archive.org/details/asoldiersdiary00scotuoft ''A Soldier's Diary''] by Ralph Scott [George Scott Atkinson, Royal Engineers] 1923. Archive.org. Sapper officer’s day-to-day diary with 2nd Army in the Ypres Salient, April- Nov. 1918.
*''My Story of the Great War'' by Captain O H Woodward [Oliver Holmes], 1st Tunnelling Company AIF. Published Adelaide SA 1932. 1933 title: ''The War Story of Oliver Holmes Woodward, Captain 1st Australian Tunnelling Company, Australian Imperial Force''. [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?sortby=dateAsc&q=%22MR+WOODWARD%27S+WAR+BOOK%22 A series of 17 extracts] appearing weekly in ''The Recorder'' Port Pirie, SA, 25 February 1933 to 17 June 1933, with [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991145 Introductory article] and [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/95991147 book review] both 13 February 1933, same newspaper. trove.nla.gov.au. Includes the firing of Hill 60 mines. Pre war, the author held a senior position in a mining company. [http://www.tunnellers.net/files/1stausttunnellingcoy.pdf Brief Chronology of the 1st Aust Tunnelling Coy, allocated to the Second Army] tunnellers.net
