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*[https://archive.org/details/deedsofheroismbr00elwy/page/n7 ''Deeds of heroism and bravery : the book of heroes and personal daring''] edited by Elwyn A Barron 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/500ofbestcockney00lond ''500 of the Best Cockney War Stories''] Reprinted from the London ''Evening News''. 1920 Archive.org
*''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. Later reprinted under the title [https://archive.org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse/mode/2up '' True World War I Stories''] with an Introduction by Jon E Lewis 1999, and still later as [https://archive. org/details/onfrontlinetruew0000unse_r2k6/page/n3/mode/2up ''On the Front Line : True World War I Stories''] with a Foreword by Malcolm Brown 2009. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
: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. Also available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#First World War databases| Subscription websites - First World War databases]] for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book". The [[British Library]] is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersoffall00emil/page/n5 ''War Letters of Fallen Englishmen''] edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org
