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*[https://archive.org/details/somedesperateglo0000vaug/page/6 ''Some Desperate Glory : the World War I Diary of a British Officer, 1917''] by Edwin Campion Vaughan 1988, first published 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author appears to have been Second Lieutenant, Warwickshire Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/manatarmsmemoirs0000lawf/mode/2up ''A Man at Arms : Memoirs of two World Wars''] by Francis Law 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Law was an officer in the Irish Guards who came to the Western Front in 1915, aged 18 (born 1897).
*[https://archive.org/details/sommemudexperien0000lync/mode/2up ''Somme Mud : the experiences of an infantryman in France, 1916-1919''] by E P F Lynch (EdwardP F), edited by Will Davies. Published 2008, written in 1921. Lynch was in the Australian Imperial Force. The [https://archive.org/details/sommemudexperien0000lync/page/n7/mode/2up "Foreword"] says "This book compares with ''All Quiet on the Western Front''...". “A memoir built on a wartime diary and a unit history” in the form of a novel, and considered to be such by some, although the book details state "This book is a work of non-fiction". Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also by the editor, a companion volume: [https: //archive.org/details/infootstepsofpri0000davi/mode/2up ''In the footsteps Footsteps of Private Lynch'' ] by Will Davies 2010, which is available at the [[British first published 2008. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library]] UIN: BLL01018531666 . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Francis_Lynch Edward Francis Lynch] Wikipedia.*[https://archive.org/details/bloodironletters0000butt/mode/2up ''Blood and Iron : Letters from the Western Front''] by Hugh Montagu Butterworth. Edited and with an Introduction by Jon Cooksey 2011. Butterworth was an Officer 9th Battalion, The Rifle Brigade who was KIA 25 September 1915. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/tofightalongside0000mayc/mode/2up ''To Fight Alongside Friends : the First World War Diaries of Charlie May''] edited by Gerry Harrison 2014. Captain Charlie May was killed, aged 27, on 1 July 1916, leading the men of 'B Company', 22nd Manchester Service Battalion (the Manchester Pals) into action on the first day of the Somme. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/forgottensoldier0000conn_u5b3/mode/2up ''The Forgotten Soldier: He wasn’t a soldier, he was just a boy''] by Charlie Connelly 2014. [https://archive.org/details/forgottensoldier0000conn/mode/2up File 2]. Catalogued as ''The forgotten soldier : he went off to fight in the Great War - and never came home''. Private Edward Charles John Connelly of the 10th Battalion, Queen’s (Royal West Surrey) Regiment killed in Flanders 4 November 1918, aged 19. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
