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:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000442395 ''The Coldstream Guards, 1914-1918''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg 1928 HathiTrust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the Teeth of the Wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett, edited by his son Nick Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''. Catalogue entry states "Revised edition of: ''Bomber pilot, 1916-1918''. London : Ian Allan Ltd., 1974", the latter edited by Chaz Bowyer.
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===Maps===
*Guides and articles
**[https://archive.org/details/getsquareduseatrenchmap/mode/2up ''Get Squared! Use A Trench Map''] by Richard Laughton, LMC Great War Research Company 2016 Archive.org. Based on the work of Dr [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Chasseaud Peter Chasseaud] (Wikipedia), who also wrote ''Rats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914–1918'', [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=vScsDwAAQBAJ Sample pages Google Books], 2017 2nd edition, first published 2006.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20170302214652/http://www.westernfrontassociation.com/the-great-war/great-war-mapping/mapping-the-front-great-war-maps-dvd/great-war-map-lists/855-read-a-trenchmap.html "How to read a Trench Map"] by Howard Anderson, October 2008 Western Front Association, now an archived webpage.
**[http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/military-maps-first-world-war/ The National Archives [Kew<nowiki>]</nowiki> Research guide: Military maps of the First World War]. The National Archives maps are '''not''' available online.
====Official Histories and Battles====
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Military Operations: France and Belgium'' by Brigadier-General J E Edmonds
**[http://www.longlongtrail.co.uk/about/british-official-histories-great-war/ The Official Histories of the Great War] longlongtrail.co.uk. Details the various volumes. Often there were separate volumes/cases /pockets of maps which generally have '''not''' been digitised.
**''Volume I August-October 1914'': [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio01edmouoft 1922 edition], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210673/page/n23/mode/2up 1933 revised 3rd edition], [https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera01edmouoft 1937 edition, reprint of revised 1933 (3rd) edition]
*:[https://archive.org/details/3edmilitaryopera02edmouoft ''Volume II October-November 1914''] 1925, [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio02edmo/page/ii/mode/2up 2nd file]. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210674/page/n19/mode/2up 1929 reprint of 1925 edition]. [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio0000jame/page/n5/mode/2up 1995 reprint of 1925 edition]. All Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio02edmo_0/page/n1/mode/1up ''Volume II Maps''] Archive.org. Maps are in reverse order.
**:1918 Volume IV ''8th August-26th September The Franco-British Offensive'' [https://archive.org/details/mil-ops-fr-belg-1918-v-4/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=kcjUAAAAMAAJ&pg=PR1 Google Books];
**:1918 Volume V ''26th September – 11th November The Advance to Victory'' [https://archive.org/details/mil-op-fb-1918-v5/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org], [https://books.google.com/books?id=tR0KAAAAIAAJ Google Books].
**The Ancestry owned pay website fold3 contains many online books in the above series, perhaps the entire series, consisting of online versions of reprints from Naval & Military Press, under the title [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ84WXU8hdLDbb5xIEV ''Military Operations France & Belgium''], a total of 9421 digital pages from multiple books. (Located in [https://www.fold3.com/publication/933/military-books/browse Military Books]-located by the Search/France, letter M). It is thought the separate volumes of maps are all included, however maps which were in separate pockets attached to individual volumes are probably not included.
*''History of the Great War based on official documents. Order of Battle of Divisions Parts 1, 2A, 2B, 3A, 3B and 4'' all by Major A.F. Becke RFA (Retired) (London: HMSO, 1935-1945)
**''Part 1 - The Regular British Divisions'' pub. 1935. [https://archive.org/details/order-battle-divisions-p-1 Archive.org], [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=CRwrAAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Google Books]
*''History of the Great War based on Official Documents'' [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b633844?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Transportation on the Western Front, 1914-1918''] compiled by Colonel AM Henniker, R E (ret) 1937 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.84806 Archive.org mirror version], originally from Digital Library of India.
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-vn6454756 Volume of 14 Maps] National Library of Australia, with a description in the [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6454756 catalogue entry].
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force''. Volume I by Walter Raleigh 1922. Volumes II-VI by H A Jones 1928-1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingst01rale Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto02rale Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto03rale Volume III], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto04rale Volume IV], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V], [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI], [https://archive.org/details/war-air-v7/page/n7/mode/2up ''Appendices'' [Volume VII<nowiki>]</nowiki>] Archive.org. :[https://archive.org/details/germanairforcein00gurduoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The German Air Force in the Great War''] by Major Georg Paul Neumann (late of the German Air Force) abridged and translated by J E Gurdon (John Everard), c 1921 Archive.org from the original which was approximately three times larger: [http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN363178236 ''Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege''] 1920. Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen.
*[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/RCDIG1069749/ ''Official History of Australia in the War of 1914–1918'']. The twelve volumes include France, four volumes. Australian War Memorial website.
:''Volume III'' [https://archive.org/details/australianimperi00cewb/page/n3 ''The Australian Imperial Force in France, 1916''] by C E W Bean 1929 Archive.org
:Both series of digitisations lack the 2010 publication ''Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918 : die militärischen Operationen zu Lande / Bd. 2 ; Das deutsche Feldeisenbahnwesen ; Die Eisenbahnen von Oktober 1914 bis zum Kriegsende'' / hrsg. von Horst Rohde / bearb. im früheren Reichsarchiv. Published: Hamburg [u.a.]: Mittler ; 2010
:''Germany's Western Front : Translations from the German Official History of the Great War'' edited by Mark Osborne Humphries and John Maker. ''Volume 1 1914'' published 2013, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=3hPaAgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books, ''Volume 2 1915'' published 2010, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=yvJ0CwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1 Sample pages] Google Books. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01016765118 and UIN: BLL01014837141 .
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015013496032?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''A Guide to the Military History of the World War, 1914-1918''] by Thomas G Frothingham, Captain U. S. Reserves. 1921 HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/frothingham-thomas-g.-a-guide-to-the-millitary-history-of-the-world-war/page/n3/mode/1up Archive.org] (different file). Also see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Naval]], for further books by this author, who was a Captain in the U.S. Army during WW1.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinamerica20chic/page/957/mode/1up ''Who's Who in America 1938'' page 957]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.</ref>
*''A Military History of the World War'' by Colonel C R Howland, Infantry US Army. 1923. Volume I contains the Narrative. Volume II contains the Maps. Based on a series of lectures. [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl_1/page/n5 Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo00howl/page/n1 Volume II], [https://archive.org/details/militaryhistoryo02howl/mode/2up Vol. II 2nd file] Archive.org.
*[https://www.army.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-11/a_record_of_the_battles_and_engagements_of_the_british_armies_1914-1918_0.pdf ''A Record of the Battles and Engagements of the British Armies in France and Flanders 1914-1918''] by Captain E A James 48th (South Midland) Divisional Signals T A 1924. army.gov.au (Located in Our Heritage/History/Primary materials/1914 to 1918 - World War One/Documents). [https://archive.org/details/record-battles Archive.org mirror version]
**[https://archive.org/details/germansonsommeby00gibb ''The Germans on the Somme''] 1917
**[https://archive.org/details/frombapaumetopas01gibb ''From Bapaume to Passchendaele: on the Western Front, 1917''] 1918 . Reprinted as [https://archive.org/details/struggleinflande00gibb ''The Struggle in Flanders: on the Western Front, 1917''] with a new introduction.
**[https://archive.org/details/openwarfaregibbs/page/n7/mode/2up ''Open Warfare - the Way to Victory''] by Philip Gibbs. Archive.org. The UK title, being one volume of 552 pages. *:''The Way to Victory'', published 1919. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924088058908?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Volume 1: The Menace''] HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/waytovictor02gibb ''Volume 2 The Repulse''] 1919. USA editions. Published in the UK in 1919 in one volume (552 p) [https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2058622/object_Future_Library_18671078.html ''Open Warfare : the Way to Victory''] europeana.eu with link to a pdf from Future Library (Greece); note however digital pages contain a watermark., published as two separate books
**[https://archive.org/details/realitiesofwar00gibbuoft ''Realities of War''] by Philip Gibbs 1920. Also published under the title [https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetold00gibb ''Now It Can Be Told''] 1920. [https://archive.org/details/nowitcanbetold_1406_librivox ''Now It Can Be Told'' Librivox audio version]. This book was written after the war, and not subject to the censorship restrictions applying during the war. All Archive.org.
**[https://archive.org/details/morethatmustbet03gibbgoog ''More That Must Be Told''] by Philip Gibbs 1921 Archive.org
**[https://dspacearchive.gipe.ac.inorg/details/adventuresinjour0000phil/xmluipage/handlen11/10973mode/37015 2up ''Adventures in Journalism''] by Philip Gibbs. 1923. Autobiographical. Page 193 190 onward covers the years from 1912. Link to pdf download, Digital Repository of Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics (GIPE), Pune IndiaArchive. org
*''The British Campaign in France and Flanders'' by Arthur Conan Doyle. Mainly Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni01doyl ''1914 Volume I''] 2nd Edition 1916; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni02doyluoft ''1915 Volume II''] 2nd Edition 1917; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaign03doyl ''1916 Volume III''] 1918; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni04doyluoft ''1917 Volume IV''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigni05doyl ''January to July 1918 Volume V''] 1919; [https://archive.org/details/cihm_76792 ''July to November 1918 Volume VI''] 1920, [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks12/1202601h.html ''Volume VI'' Project Gutenberg Australia transcribed version] where maps may be clearer.
*[https://archive.org/details/gunsofaugust00tuch_gaq ''The Guns of August''] by Barbara Tuchman 1988. Archive.org Lending Library. A narrative of the earliest stages of World War I, from the decisions to go to war, up until the battles of the first month. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Guns_of_August About the book] Wikipedia. Article [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/03/guns-of-august-barbara-tuchman "''The Guns of August'' showed me how history could bring the past to life"] by Margaret MacMillan ''The Guardian'' 4 August 2014.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromelles19160000cobb/page/n3/mode/2up ''Fromelles 1916''] by Paul Cobb 2010 edition, first published 2007. Attack at Fromelles 19-20 July, 1916, subsidiary to the Battle of the Somme, by both British and Australian troops, the début of the AIF on the Western Front. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inflandersfields00wolf/page/n5 ''In Flanders Fields: the 1917 Campaign''] by Leon Wolff 1958. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/battlesofridges00foxf/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battles of the Ridges: Arras, Messines, March-June, 1917''] by Frank Fox RFA 1918. Archive.org. See also two further books in the section [[Western Front#Generals and Army Headquarters|Generals and Army Headquarters]] following.
*[https://archive.org/details/cheerfulsacrific0000nich ''Cheerful Sacrifice : the Battle of Arras, 1917''] by Jonathan Nicholls 1990. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. April-May 1917.
*[https://archive.org/details/pillarsoffirebat0000pass ''Pillars of Fire : the Battle of Messines Ridge, June 1917''] by Ian Passingham 1998. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
**[http://archive.org/stream/withindiansinfra00will#page/346/mode/2up List of 'Promotions and Rewards'] page 347-382
*[https://archive.org/details/record-58th-rifles-f-f-great-war/page/n1/mode/2up ''A Record of the 58th Rifles F. F. in the Great War 1914-1919''] by Colonel A G Lind DSO 1933. Archive.org. [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Wikimedia Commons] - Direct [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf pdf link], [https://web.archive.org/web/20170727020015/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/04/AG_Lind-_A_Record_of_the_58th_Rifles_FF_in_the_Great_War_1914_-_1919.pdf Archive.org pdf]. The latter links may be slow to open. Includes France 1914-1915.
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)]]; [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[20th Deccan Horse]]; [[29th Lancers (Deccan Horse)]]; [[38th Central India Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|Garhwal Rifles]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|127th Baluchis]]; the histories being on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website).:Other regimental histories, see [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[41st Regiment of Dogra Infantry|41st Dogras]], [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[44th Gurkha Rifles| 8th Gurkha Rifles]]- the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles had many deaths on the Western Front; [[9th Gurkha Rifles]]; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]]; [[Bengal Sappers and Miners|Bengal]], [[Madras Sappers and Miners|Madras]], [[Bombay Sappers and Miners]].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012679548 ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. Officers and men of the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India who became the military postal service of the Indian Army. Includes chapters on the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft#page/538/mode/2up "From an Indian Post Office in France"] page 538 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 197 January- June 1915. Archive.org.
*Some '''Regimental''' and '''Divisional''' histories, and some Manuals from the British Library Digital Collection may be accessed by [http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do Searching the British Library Main Catalogue], using search term such as Army Great Britain or War Office Great Britain, or specific search terms. Then use side filters, Online, Books. Note: Selecting the filter for date does not appear to be accurate, so it is best to re-order the Search results according to date, and then select those applicable to WW1.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Regimental+histories+Great+Britain%22&sort=titleSorter Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader "World War, 1914-1918 -- Regimental histories Great Britain"]; Archive.org Search result [https://archive.org/search?query=British+Army+regimental+histories&sort=date&and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22World+War+1914-1918%22&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22 British Army regimental histories/World War 1914-1918] includes Regimental and some Divisional histories. Also use the [https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php Search] using your own Search terms.
:[https://archive.org/details/mcmaster_university?sort=title McMaster University collection in the Internet Archive] contains many Regimental and Battalion Histories. In addition the website [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/node/22 McMaster University Digital Archive] includes additional histories.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22World+War%2C+1914-1918+--+Campaigns%22&sort=titleSorter Books on Archive.org classified by the uploader "World War, 1914-1918 -- Campaigns"] Includes some Regimental histories.
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?type%5B%5D=subject&lookfor%5B%5D=%22%20World%20War%2C%201914-1918%20Regimental%20histories%22&filter%5B%5D=topicStr%3AWorld%20War%2C%201914-1918&filter%5B%5D=topicStr%3AGreat%20Britain&ft=ft&page=1&pagesize=100 HathiTrust Digital Library] regimental histories, some of which are available full view. [https://www.hathitrust.org Search] the catalogue for specific titles.
:[https://archive.org/details/doingsoffifteent00glei ''The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915''] by its Commander Brigadier General Count Gleichen (now Major-General Lord Edward Gleichen) 1917 Archive.org
:''The Irish Guards in the Great War'' (2 Vols) by Rudyard Kipling, whose son, killed in action, was in this regiment. [https://archive.org/details/irishguardsofgre01rudy/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/irishguardsofgre02rudy/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. 2] 1923 editions. Archive.org. 1997 Reprint editions with new Forewords [https://archive.org/details/irishguardsingre00kipl/mode/2up Vol. 1], [https://archive.org/details/irishguardsingre0000kipl_o4u1/mode/2up Vol. 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The regiment was founded in 1900.
:''The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914-1918'' by J C Latter 1949. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111160122/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume I], [https://web.archive.org/web/20220127201540/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/page8.html V.I Contents]; [https://web.archive.org/web/20200913123809/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume II], [https://web.archive.org/web/20200805022519/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/page3.html V. II Contents]. Transcribed editions by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. , now archived (Previously [[20th Regiment of Foot|20th Reg.]]):[http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-The-Duke-of-Cornwalls-Light-Infantry-1914-1919/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html ''The History of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry 1914-1919''] by Everard Wyrall 1932. Transcription by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=L5QFAQAAIAAJ Snippet view, Searchable] Google Books. Also Searchable at [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000442490 HathiTrust Digital Library] (Previously [[32nd Regiment of Foot|32nd Reg.]]): ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' (in three Volumes) Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol. 1 1st, 2nd & 3rd Battalions; Vol. 2 4th, 5th 6th, 7th Reserve Battalions, The Royal Highlanders of Canada. Vol. 3 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th Battalions.: [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/1/mode/2up ''Volume One''] Digital Archive@McMaster University Library. [https://archive.org/details/historyblackwatch-vol1/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. One'' Archive.org]; [https://archive.org/details/historyblackwatch-vol2/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. Two''] Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/black-watch-vol3/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. Three''] Archive.org. (Previously [[42nd Regiment of Foot|42nd Reg.]])
:[https://archive.org/details/fifeforfar00ogiluoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F.& F. Yeo) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919''] [R. H. = Royal Highlanders] by Major D D Ogilvie 1921 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/moralestudyofmen00bayn/page/n5 ''Morale: a study of men and courage; the Second Scottish Rifles at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915''] by John Baynes 1967 Archive.org Lending Library
:[https://archive.org/details/10thpworoyalhuss00whit/page/n3 ''The 10th (Psearch?query=title%3A%28Hussars+War%29&sort=-date Archive. W. O.) Royal org titles using keywords, Hussars and the Essex Yeomanry during the European War, 1914-1918''] by Lt.-Col. F H D C Whitmore 1920 Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/thirteenthhussar00dura historyofsixteen00grah/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Thirteenth Hussars in History of the Sixteenth, the Great WarQueen's Light Dragoons (Lancers) 1912-1925''] by Sir H Mortimer Durand 1921 Colonel Henry Graham 1926. Archive.org.:Pdf downloads available from the [http://www.lightdragoons.org.uk/downloads.html Light Dragoons Regimental Association]: ''History of the 15th The King's Hussars 1914-1922'' by Lord Carnock 1932; ''The Memoirs of the 18th - Queen Mary's Own - Royal Hussars, 1906-1922, including operations in the Great War'' by Brig.-General Charles Burnett, published 1926.:[https://archive.org/details/historyofsixteen00grah/page/n5/mode/2up ''History of the Sixteenth, the Queen's Light Dragoons (Lancers) 1912-1925''] by Colonel Henry Graham 1926. WW1 period also appear to be available Archive.org.
* ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force.
:[https://archive.org/details/canteensbritisharmy/page/n13/mode/2up ''A Short Account of Canteens in the British Army''] by John Fortescue 1928 Archive.org. Includes WW1, when the organisation was known as the Expeditionary Force Canteen, EFC. It appears that at least in the later years of WW1, Canteen personnel were either Army Service Corps personnel, or were administered by the ASC. Medals awarded were inscribed Canteens.
:[https://archive.org/details/armyservicecorps00puck ''Army Service Corps of the British Army, and, the organization of the transport and transportation at the front in France : lectures delivered before the officers of the Quartermaster Corps and Quartermaster Reserve Corps at Washington, D.C., May 1917''] by Lieut. Col. F K Puckle, A S C, British Army. Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.274682/mode/2up ''A. and Q. or, Military Administration In War''] by Lieut.-Col. W G Lindsell RA 1928. Archive.org.
*[http://www.lulu.com/shop/charles-d-tracy/the-service-revolver-and-how-to-use-it/ebook/product-23483904.html ''The Service Revolver and How to Use It''] by Charles D. Tracy, The King’s Own Royal Lancaster Regiment 1918. Link to a pdf download (free) lulu.com. (More details.<ref> lklawson. [http://www.martialtalk.com/threads/free-combat-revolver-manual.126207/ Free Combat Revolver manual] ''MartialTalk'' 10 January 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2020.</ref>). [https://archive.org/details/the_service_revolver_and_how_to_use_it/mode/2up Archive.org version], possibly/probably the same file. Tracy was also the author of ''Revolver Shooting in War''. Tracy is mentioned in [http://www.worldwar1.com/tripwire/pdf/davidthomas.pdf ''The Pistol in British Military Service during the Great War''] by David Thomas 2010 Dissertation University of Birmingham. worldwar1.com.
*[https://archive.org/details/snipinginfrancew00pricrich/page/n9/mode/2up ''Sniping in France, with Notes on the Scientific Training of Scouts, Observers, and Snipers''] by Major H Hesketh-Prichard [1920]. Archive.org. First Army School of S.O.S.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofriflema0000crum/mode/2up ''Memoirs of a Rifleman Scout''] by Major F M Crum 2014 reprint edition, first published 1950. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/memoirsofriflema0000crum/page/182/mode/2up page 183]. Archive.org Texts to Borrow. Major Crum of 8th KRRC became interested in sniping techniques and in May 1916 established a sniper school at Acq. This book incorporates an edited version of his earlier book [https://archive.org/details/riflemenscoutssnipers/page/n7/mode/2up ''With Rifleman, Scouts and Snipers from 1914 to 1919''] (1921, Private Circulation) 217 digital pages including appendices and photographs. Archive.org
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100000050752.0x000002 ''Strategic Camouflage''] by Solomon J. Solomon 1920. British Library Digital file, where pages are rotatable. [https://archive.org/details/StrategicCamouflage1920/page/n7 Archive.org version].
*[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5801 ''The Pill-boxes of Flanders''] by Col. E. G. L. Thurlow 1933. "The Great War Archive", a part of ''The First World War Poetry Digital Archive'', University of Oxford. The pages of this short book have been listed out of order. To read in book order, select the following document pages 26, 11, 15 (Title page); 27, 23 Contents; 13, 2, 18, 4, 14, 24, 16, 3, 17, 25, 7, 19, 8, 21, 28, 1, 12, 5, 22, 9, 6, 10, 20. [https://archive.org/details/pill-boxes-flanders-image-01 pillboxesflandersimages/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version], with pages in the correct order.
:Later books are ''Pill Boxes on the Western Front: A Guide to the Design, Construction and Use of Concrete Pill Boxes, 1914-1918'' by Peter Oldham published 1995. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=DN6kAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA5 Sample pages] Google Books 2011 reprint edition; ''Armageddon's Walls: British Pill Boxes 1914-1918'' by Peter Oldham 2014. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=nmRtBQAAQBAJ&pg=PR3 Sample pages] Google Books.
*[https://archive.org/details/poisonwar00robeuoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Poison War''] by A A Roberts 1915 Archive.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120825165603/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/NewsMedia/I_Was_There_01.htm ''The Great War…I Was There! Undying Memories of 1914-1918''] (a description greatwardifferent.com, archived) edited by Sir John Hammerton originally published in 51 weekly parts 1938-39, (first appearing around the 20th anniversary of the end of the war), and also published 1938-39 in a three volume edition, 2060 pages (V.1. August 4, 1914, to July 1, 1916; V.2. July 4, 1916, to October 22, 1917; V.3. Oct. 25, 1917 to Jan. 1919 (with pages V1 1-696, V2 697-1376, V3 1377-2060)(Amalgamated Press)), the latter available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001581634 . There was also a four volume publication (1930s) by Waverley (with pages V1 1-496, V2 497-1016, V3 1017-1536, V4 1537-2056 with Supplement and General Index).
:Contents sample, pages 1545 to 1734<ref>stiletto_33853 . [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/301821-i-was-there-volumes/?do=findComment&comment=3174496 I Was There Volumes] ''Great War Forum'' 26 December 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.</ref>, which indicates that the majority of the accounts were extracts from previously published books.
:The weekly issues are being uploaded to the Patreon.com platform by the Vickers MG Collection and Research Association, and at 1 September 19 December 2023 [https://www.patreon.com/vickersmg/posts?filters%5Btag%5D=%23IWasThere Issues 1-2232] were available to download as pdfs for free, and more uploads were expected.
:The weekly magazines are available as a database on the pay website [[findmypast]], titled [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/britain-the-great-war-i-was-there Britain, The Great War, I Was There] located in Armed Forces & Conflict/First World War, which advises the 51 editions ran from 29 September 1938 to 19 September 1939. To browse the pages, do not use a Search term but click on the Search icon, when a series of 1186 pdf images, (each of two pages), will be displayed in image order. From any image you can navigate to the next image, or the previous image. (This function is located near the top of the findmypast webpage, not near the actual image). Part 1 consists of 29 images, perhaps larger than the average, if in fact all issues are included.
:Some of the weekly issues (Parts 1-41, (for the period to 23 April 1918) and Part 46 (Sept-Oct 1918) are 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" and it appears in five separate listings, the editions to Part 41 in four listings and Part 46 as a separate listing. 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.
==== In the Air====
*''The War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'' (in seven volumes). Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''.
:''The German Air Force in the Great War'' by Major Georg Paul Neumann c 1921
:For both these titles see [[Western Front#Official Histories and Battles|Official Histories and Battles]] above.
*[https://archive.org/search?query=title%3A%28%22The%20Great%20War%20in%20the%20Air%22%29%20AND%20creator%3A%28Middleton%29 ''The Great War in the Air Volumes 1-4''] by Edgar Middleton 1920 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/inroyalnavalairs00roshiala ''In the Royal Naval Air Service. Being the War Letters of the late Harold Rocher to his Family''] 1916 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/airmansoutings00bottuoft/page/n7 ''An Airman's Outings''] by "Contact" [Captain Alan Bott, R F C] 5th Impression 1917. Archive.org. Also published under the titles [https://archive.org/details/flyingace00bott/page/n7 ''The Flying Ace''] (better digital file) Archive.org; ''Cavalry of the Clouds''.
*[https://archive.org/details/warbirdsdiaryofu00unse/page/n9 ''War Birds : Diary of an Unknown Aviator''] Illustrated by Clayton Knight. 1926 Archive.org. The author was Elliott White Springs who edited a short diary by "Unknown Aviator" John MacGavock Grider, and wrote the rest of the content.<ref>Dan_San_Abbott. [http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/showthread.php?t=948 War Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator] ''The Aerodrome Forum'' 20 July 2002. Retrieved 27 May 2019.</ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_White_Springs Elliott White Springs] Wikipedia. They were both part of a group of Americans who trained in Britain, and joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above.
*[https://hdlarchive.handle.netorg/details/fightsandflights/page/n9/2027mode/uc1.b3488289?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2up ''Fights and Flights''] "Part I Armoured Cars (August –November 1914)" and "Part II The "Iron Coast" (November 1914-February 1915)" by Air-Commodore Charles Rumney Samson 1930. Royal Naval Air Service. HathiTrust Digital Archive.org.*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the Teeth of the Wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett, edited by his son Nick Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Possibly not available Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''. Catalogue entry states "Revised edition of: ''Bomber pilot, 1916-1918''. London : Ian Allan Ltd., 1974", the latter edited by Chaz Bowyer.* ''Winged Victory'' by V M Yates published 1934 was in fictional form, but based very largely on the author’s experiences as a fighter pilot. He joined 46 Squadron in USA etcFebruary 1918, then 80 Sqn. See [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]] below. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Maslin_Yeates Victor Maslin Yeates] Wikipedia. A biography ''Winged Victor'' by Gordon Atkin 2004 (available at The British Library UIN: BLL01012980540) established that ''Winged Victory'' was largely autobiographical.
*[https://archive.org/details/sagittariusrisin0000lewi/mode/2up ''Sagittarius Rising''] by Cecil Lewis 2003, originally published 1936. He arrived in France as a pilot with the RFC in March 1916, age 17. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.278559 ''Air Power And Armies''] by Wing Commander J C Slessor 1936 Archive.org, mirror from the Digital Library of India. Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Staff College Camberley between 1931 and 1934. Includes WW1 content.
*[https://archive.org/details/noparachutefight00leea/page/n7 ''No Parachute: a Fighter Pilot in World War I. Letters written in 1917 by Lieutenant A. S. G. Lee, Sherwood Forresters, attached Royal Flying Corps''] by Arthur Stanley Gould Lee 1970. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Lee was a pilot in No 46 Fighter Squadron, RFC. He was also the author of ''Open Cockpit : a pilot of the Royal Flying Corps'' 1969, [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Open_Cockpit.html?id=wXbzAAAAMAAJ Searchable, but not viewable Google Books] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lee_(RAF_officer) Arthur Lee (RAF officer)] Wikipedia. He continued in the RAF until retiring in 1946 as an Air Vice Marshal.
*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & Air Battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a well regarded series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
*[https://archive.org/details/airaces0000shor/mode/2up ''Air Aces''] by Christopher Shores 1983. [https://archive.org/details/airaces0000shor_d5v1/mode/2up 2nd file]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes "Chapter 1 World War 1: The Flying Circus".
*[https://archive.org/details/Coningham/mode/2up ''Coningham: A Biography Of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC''] by Vincent Orange 1992, first published 1990. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/Coningham/page/n23/mode/2up page 13]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/usairserviceingr0000cook/page/n5/mode/2up ''The U.S. Air Service in the Great War, 1917-1919''] by James J Cooke 1996. Archive.org Books to Borrow.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.
*[https://archive.org/details/frommonstoloosbe00stewuoft ''From Mons to Loos : being the Diary of a Supply Officer''] by Major Herbert A Stewart Army Service Corps 1916 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/lofclinesofcommu00agatrich ''L. of C. (Lines of Communication): being the Letters of a Temporary Officer in the Army Service Corps''] by Captain James E Agate 1917 Archive.org.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b283017?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''On the road from Mons with an Army Service Corps Train''] by its commander (Capt. A. Clifton-Shelton, A.S.C.) 2nd edition 1917, first published 1916. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/roadmons/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version].*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/motorbuswar/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]. The author was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division. Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum'' 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersofpubl00jone/page/n7/mode/2up ''War Letters of a Public-School Boy''] by Paul Jones 1918. Archive.org. He was killed in action 31 July 1917 when a Lieutenant in the Tank Corps, but prior to February 1917 was in the Army Service Corps, performing duties such as Brigade Supply Officer, Brigade Requisitioning Officer and Divisional Forage Purchasing Officer for a Cavalry Brigade and Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/truckingtotrench00kautrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Trucking to the Trenches; Letters from France, June-November 1917''] by John Iden Kautz 1918 Archive.org. An American, he volunteered with a group of American University volunteers to drive ambulances, but drove instead munition transport trucks, officially part of the French Army. The service was eventually taken over by the American Army, and he transferred to the Quartermaster Corps (transport division). This book also appears on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122162718/http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html American Field Service/Library] website, now archived, under the heading "Réserve Mallet truck transport units", [https://web.archive.org/web/20081201233711/http://www.ourstory.info/2/c/Mallet.html more details], archived.
:''History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917,'' told by its members. With illustrations. [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. III''] Contains “The Camion Section” Archive.org
====Artillery====
*[https://archive.org/details/royalregimentofa00beck/mode/2up ''The Royal Regiment of Artillery at Le Cateau, 26th August, 1914''] by Major A F Becke, late RFA 1919 Archive.org. The book also includes an additional article on Le Cateau by Brig.-General C De Sausmarez.
*[https://archive.org/details/retreatfrommon00corb/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Retreat from Mons by one who shared in it''] by A Corbett-Smith, Major RFA. 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/marneaftercompan00corb/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Marne - and After, a companion volume to "The Retreat from Mons"''] by A Corbett-Smith, Major RFA. 1917 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsommetorhine00ashm/page/n5 ''From the Somme to the Rhine''] by S Ashmead-Bartlett. Dust jacket/book cover has additional wording ''An Intelligence Officer's narrative of the last phase of the Great War'' <ref>Dust Jacket Collector. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/211418-on-active-service-series/?do=findComment&comment=2825244 On Active Service Series] ''Great War Forum'' 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.</ref> . [1921] Archive.org. A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. Elsewhere it is stated he was Major Herbert Seabury Hunt Ashmead-Bartlett (known as Seabury) 173 Infantry Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The author’s war diary for [http://www.phelps-ancestry.co.uk/ancestry/herbert-seabury-hunt-ashmead-bartlett/war-diary-1915/ The Battle of Ypres May 1915]. He appears to be a brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the war correspondent, and had himself briefly worked as a journalist. In 1922, as a condition for an inheritance, he changed his surname to Burdett-Coutts.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirofltcoledw00steeiala ''A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations''] 1921 Archive.org. During WW1 he was on the Western Front with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
*[https://archive.org/details/fieldgunsfrance/page/n11/mode/2up ''Field Guns in France''] by Lieut.-Col. Neil Fraser-Tytler RA (TA) 1922. Archive.org
*[http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph011568508 ''The War Diary of the Master of Belhaven, 1914-1918''] by Ralph GA Hamilton 1924. University of Oxford Digital Collection. Alternative [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/503077282.pdf direct pdf link], same website. Diary of the Hon. Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton, Master of Belhaven. Served as an interpreter with the Expeditionary Force in 1914 until wounded, returned to France in September 1915 as O/C “C” Bty., 108 Bde. Royal Field Artillery, 24th Div. Later rose to command the brigade. Killed in action 31st March 1918.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n149/mode/2up WW1 period] page 139 ''Clouds That Flee'' by Colonel Montague Cooke 1935. Archive.org. Born 1877, a career soldier, Cooke was in France two periods 1914-1916 and 1918, initially with the 5th Royal Horse Artillery Artillery Brigade as a Battery Commander.
*[https://archive.org/details/canadiansroadtor0000tomp/page/n7 ''A Canadian's Road to Russia : Letters from the Great War Decade''] by Stuart Ramsay Tompkins 1989. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was initially in France with Calgary’s 31st Battalion, Canadian Second Division, (infantry) then transferred to the 6th Canadian Brigade Trench Mortar Battery. He subsequently joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force in Siberia, arriving in Vladivostok January 1919. He later became a university professor specialising in Russian history.
*[https://archive.org/details/familyatwarfolja0000unse ''Family at war : the Foljambe family and the Great War''] by Jolyon Jackson 2010. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Francis Foljambe had been commissioned into the Royal Field Artillery in 1912. While in France he transferred to the Royal Horse Artillery.
*[https://archive.org/details/amateurgunnersgr0000thor/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners : the Great War adventures, letters and observations of Alexander Douglas Thorburn''] edited by Ian Ronayne 2014. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Revised, expanded edition of [https://archive.org/details/amateurgunners/page/n5/mode/2up ''Amateur Gunners'' ] published 1933, additional title ''Recording some of the exploits of the 2/22nd County of London Howitzer Battery RFA on active service.'' Archive.org. Western Front, [[Salonica and the Balkans (First World War)|Salonika]], [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Palestine]].
*The Royal Marine Artillery was part of the Royal Marines. For chapters in a history, see [[Western Front#Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general|Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general, above]].
*[https://archive.org/details/navalgunsinflanders/page/n9/mode/2up ''Naval Guns in Flanders 1914-1915''] by L. F. R. (Lt. Lionel F Robinson RN) 1920 Archive.org. In October 1914 the author, a naval Gunnery Officer, was ordered to Belgium to command a unit of naval guns on railway mountings, HM Armoured Train 'Jellicoe', one of three armoured trains in operation until the spring of 1915. This unusual unit moved around Flanders giving invaluable artillery support. The trains were under the command of the RNAS.
*Also see In The Air, below, for letters of George Weston Devenish, Lieut. R.A., attached R.F.C.
*Also see German Army below, for ''With the German guns : four years on the Western front, 1914-1918'' by Herbert Sulzbach
:*[https://archive.org/details/sim_field-artillery_october-december-1915_5_4/page/659/mode/2up "Our Baptism of Fire"] by Major A Seeger, Commanding the Horse Artillery Battalion, 15th Field Artillery, German Army, translated by First Lieut. Edmund L Gruber. ''The Field Artillery Journal'' October-December 1915: Vol 5 Iss 4, page 659 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/artilleryfiring00statgoog/page/n4/mode/2up/ ''Artillery Firing (reprint of pamphlet translated by American Expeditionary Forces, France)''] by War Plans Division, [US] General Staff June 1918. Archive.org.
*Available on HathiTust Digital Library, restricted regions access only, or searchable, but not viewable. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000442301 ''Field Guns in France''] by Lieut.-Col. Neil Fraser-Tytler 1922. [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=UOM:39015019195786 Google Books, Public Domain USA]; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102644358 ''Salute of Guns''] by Donald Boyd 1930 - [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=gbXNDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT4 Sample pages Google Books] for a reprint edition, [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=UCBK:C038622831 Google Books 1930 edition, searchable]. Boyd was a professional journalist prior to the war.
====Cavalry====
*[https://archive.org/details/fightinghunfrom00jonegoog ''Fighting the Hun from Saddle and Trench''] by Sergt. Major William R Jones, Royal Canadian Dragoons 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sportinpeacewar00buxtrich/page/n6 ''Sport in Peace and War''] by Anthony Buxton 1920. Non military account. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Buxton Anthony Buxton] Wikipedia, which says he was a Major in the Essex Yeomanry.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofworldwari0000home/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Diary of a World War I Cavalry Officer''] by Brigadier General Sir Archibald Home, edited by Diana Briscoe 1985. Archive.org Texts to Borrow
*''The Cavalry Journal''. ''Journal of the United States Cavalry Association''. [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000679840 A]; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008891896 B]; [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008898701 C] includes full view V.30-31 1921-1922. Includes articles about the Western Front. Mainly full view HathiTrust.
*''The Cavalry Journal''. Published in London from 1906. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22+Royal+United+Service+Institution%22%29+AND+title%3A%28The+Cavalry+Journal%29&sort=date ''The Cavalry Journal'' at Archive.org] from Volume 1 1906 to Volume 24 193432 1942. There were no editions 1915-1919, however editions in subsequent years contain articles about the WW1 period. [http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/library/browse/series.xhtml?recordId=2764 Selected/partial Index of articles up to Volume 23] (Source.<ref>archaeologydataservice.ac.uk. Appears to be taken from the book ''A guide to the historical and archaeological publications of societies in England and Wales, 1901-1933'' compiled for the Institute of Historical Research by E. L. C. Mullins 1968. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01011582477 [https://books.google.com.au/books/about/A_guide_to_the_historical_and_archaeolog.html?id=dkgOAQAAMAAJ Snippet Google Books]</ref>) Volumes 1-9 1906-1914; Volumes 10-23 1920-1933.
====Chaplains (Army)====
*''Messages from Mars : a Chaplain's Experiences at the Front'' by T. L. B. Westerdale (T. L. Barlow) 1917. [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/f/1cl35st/SLV_VOYAGER890308 Catalogue link], [http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/89208 Direct link] State Library of Victoria. [https://archive.org/details/messagesmars Archive.org version]. He was a Methodist Chaplain with 1/4th K. O. R. L [King’s Own (Royal Lancaster)]. He also wrote the earlier book available on HathiTrust Digital Library to those in areas such as USA [https://catalog.hathitrustarchive.org/Recorddetails/009040328 underredcrossflag/page/n3/mode/2up ''Under the Red Cross Flag; with the 'medicals' in action''] by T.L. Barlow Westerdale [1915] Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/crossatfrontfrag01tipl ''The Cross at the Front; Fragments from the Trenches''] by Thomas Tiplady, Chaplain to the Forces. 1917 Archive.org. Also published under the title ''The Kitten in the Crater''. He was a Chaplain in the 56th Division of London Territorials.
:[https://archive.org/details/soulofsoldierske01tipl ''The Soul of the Soldier; Sketches from the Western Battle-Front''] by Thomas Tiplady, Chaplain to the Forces. 1918 Archive.org. Includes [https://archive.org/stream/soulofsoldierske01tipl#page/130 "Chapter XI “Missing”"] page 130, which explains when this classification was used.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz40746705X ''Letters of an Army Chaplain''] by William Duncan Geare 1918. Classified by IWM as Royal Army Chaplains Department, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 7, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 9. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer".
*[https://archive.org/details/padreinfrance00birm ''A Padre in France''] by George Birmingham, the pseudonym for James Owen Hannay, c 1919. Archive.org. He was appointed to the Chaplains Department, British Army
*[https://archive.org/details/johnayscoughslet01aysc/page/n7/mode/2up ''John Ayscough's letters to his mother during 1914, 1915, and 1916''] 1919 Archive.org. The Roman Catholic priest Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew wrote novels under the name John Ayscough. Initially during the war he was an Army Chaplain attached to 15 Field Ambulance, subsequently he was on garrison and hospital duty at Dieppe and Versailles.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromcloistertoca00deva/page/n7 ''From Cloister to Camp : being reminiscences of a priest in France, 1915-1918''] by Fr Dominic Devas OFM. 1919 Archive.org. He was a Franciscan and RC Chaplain , British Army. He was initially attached to the 1/1 South Midland Field Ambulance
*''"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], located in International/Military Books/Britain (scroll to letter G)
:[https://archive.org/details/chemicalsoldiers0000rich/mode/2up ''Chemical Soldiers : British Gas Warfare in World War I''] by Donald Richter 1992. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The role of the British Special Brigade.
*[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. He was an officer in 237th F. Coy R.E, born 1899.
*''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/search/advanced/category/newspapers?keyword=%22MR%20WOODWARD%27S%20WAR%20BOOK%22&sortBy=dateAsc&startPos=0 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
*''Tunnellers: The Story of the Tunnelling Companies, Royal Engineers, during the World War'' by W. Grant Grieve and Bernard Newman 1936 is available in a reprint edition<ref>[https://www.naval-military-press.com/product/tunnellers/ ''Tunnellers''] Naval & Military Press</ref>, which in turn is available as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19ShKtXFUU online book on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3], located in Military Books/Britain (scroll to Tu).
*[https://archive.org/details/scoutingthrills00mckerich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Scouting Thrills''] by Captain G B McKean, VC, MC, MM 14th Battalion Canadian Infantry 1919 Archive.org. The Battalion scouts were generally part of the Intelligence section, along with observers and snipers. Pages 8-9 state the book is primarily written for boys. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burdon_McKean George Burdon McKean] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor ''A Handful of Ausseys''] by C. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungenpurl/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 bsz40749670X ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".[https://archive.org/details/glimpsesgreatwar/page/n1/mode/2up Archive.org mirror version]
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25528 ''Q. 6. A and Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917, and 1918''] by Francis Buckley 1920. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/q6aandotherplaces00buckuoft Archive.org version]. Reprinted in 2015 with the title [https://archive.org/details/recollectionsofg0000buck/mode/2up ''Recollections of the Great War : three years on campaign in France and Flanders with the Northumberland Fusiliers''] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. He was a subaltern, from Jan. 1916 onwards, and later company commander, 1st/7th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
*[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrich/page/n7 ''A Galloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures''] by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish 1920. Archive.org. Butler was ADC to the General of the 7th Division.
*[https://www.loc.gov/item/22020297/ ''A Tank Driver's Experiences or Incidents in a Soldier’s Life''] by Arthur Jenkin [1922] Library of Congress. The name Arthur Jenkin is thought to be a pseudonym.<ref>Dust Jacket Collector et al. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/204868-arthur-jenkin-a-tank-drivers-experiences/ Arthur Jenkin 'A Tank Driver's Experiences'] ''Great War Forum'' 10 January 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2021.</ref>
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015035242844?urlappend=%3Bseq=5 ''The Fighting Tanks since 1916''] by Ralph Ernest Jones, Robert Joseph Icks and George Howard Rarey 1933. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284287 Archive.org], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77218/page/n7/mode/2up ''Memoirs of an Unconventional Soldier''] by Major-General J F C Fuller 1936 Archive.org. During WW1 Fuller was Chief of the General Staff of the Tank Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/tankpioneers0000mack/mode/2up ''The Tank Pioneers''] by Kenneth Macksey 1981 Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*Books by Edmund Dane, all in the series ''The Daily Telegraph War Books''. [https://archive.org/details/hackingthroughbe00daneuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''Hacking through Belgium''] 1914. [https://archive.org/details/battleofrivers00daneuoft/page/n5/mode/2up ''The Battle of the Rivers''] 1914. [https://archive.org/details/battlesinflander00daneuoft ''The Battles in Flanders, from Ypres to Neuve Chapelle''] 1915. Republished in 2014 as ''The Western Front, 1914 Trilogy: A Concise History of the Opening Campaigns of the First World War, 1914''. In a 1919 book which he authored, he was described as "Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette''".
*[https://archive.org/details/fromtrencheslouv00youn ''From the Trenches : Louvain to the Aisne, the first record of an eye-witness''] by Geoffrey Winthrop Young 1914 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Winthrop_Young Geoffrey Winthrop Young] Wikipedia. Young was then working as a war correspondent for the ''Daily News''.
*[https://archive.org/details/behindscenesatfr00adam/page/n7/mode/2up ''Behind the Scenes at the Front''] by George Adam, Paris Correspondent of "The Times" 1915. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00stro ''The Diary of an English Resident in France during twenty-two weeks of war time''] by Rowland Strong 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated Rowland Strong was/had been the Paris correspondent for the ''Observer'', the ''Morning Post'' and the ''New York Times''.
:[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00strorich ''The Diary of an English Resident in France during war time. Second series, Jan.-Dec. 1915''] by Rowland Strong 1916 Archive.org.
====Vocabularies====
*[https://archive.org/details/adictionarymili00farrgoog ''A Dictionary of Military Terms''] by Edward S Farrow, late of the United States Military Academy. Revised edition 1918. Archive.org.
*[http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER726701 ''Digger Dialects : a Collection of Slang Phrases used by the Australian Soldiers on Active Service''] by W.H. Downing, late 57th Battalion, AIF. [1919]. State Library of Victoria. Some of the words were probably also used by British and other soldiers. Examples: Chat (n) - A Louse; Chat (v) - To examine clothing in order to remove lice; Chatty (adj) - verminous. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Downing W. H. Downing] (Wikipedia) was also the author of ''To the Last Ridge'' 1920 and reprint editions [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=u8d1DwAAQBAJ Sample pages Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/details/wardiaryofsquare00mgrich/page/216 "A Dictionary of War Words"] Appendix II, pages 217-224 ''The War Diary of a Square Peg'' by Maximilian A Mügge 1920. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/dictionnairedest00pariuoft ''Dictionnaire des termes militaires et de l'argot poilu''] [1916] Archive.org
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008231050 ''Foot Artillery Index to the German Forces in the Field'', Volumes 1 and 2] compiled by the General Staff, War Office. 2nd revision February 1918. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/foot-artillery-index-german-forces-pt-1-feb-1918/page/n1/mode/2up Vol. 1 ''Sectors''] Archive.org, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=BXMyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA3 Google Books]; [https://archive.org/details/foot-artillery-index-german-forces-part-2-feb-1918/page/n7/mode/2up Vol. 2 ''Index of Batteries''] Archive.org, [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=ZnMyAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA149 Google Books].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027835317 ''Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German Army which participated in the war (1914-1918)''] Compiled from records of Intelligence Section of the General Staff, American Expeditionary Forces at General Headquarters, Chaumont France 1919. Published 1920 Archive.org.
*Use the Search term Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter Ehemals preußische Truppenteile in the [https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/3NG25HN72MPUGPHOB7GZHRKQOETGF57Q Erinnerungsblätter deutscher Regimenter. [...<nowiki>Search]</nowiki>, Ehemals preußische Truppenteile] 44 German Army Regimental online histories, (German language), from from Deutsche Digital Bibliothek, from the collection of Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, for 56 results (online histories) for Prussian histories. Omitting the last 3 words in the Search gives even more results.
:[http://d-nb.info/dnbn/1045361879 Deutsche National Bibliothek catalogue entry: Infanterieregimenter] Select the main category and subcategories, then select Publikationen, then use the filter on the RHS of the page "Online (frei zugänglich)". (German language). Also see the ''Great War Forum'' topic "Regimental histories at the German National Library (DNB)".<ref> Ken S. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236273-regimental-histories-at-the-german-national-library-dnb/?tab=comments#comment-2709094 Regimental histories at the German National Library (DNB)] ''Great War Forum'' 10 February 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2018.</ref> [http://d-nb.info/dnbn/1045361704 Deutsche National Bibliothek catalogue entry: Deutsches Heer] includes links to categories Kavallerie, Artillerie etc, however only a few titles appear to have been digitised.
:[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=141&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 Die württembergischen Regimenter im Weltkrieg 1914 – 1918] Links to multiple volumes of different württembergischen Regimenter (German language). Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. If URL Is not permanent, use [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/start/ Suchen]. Use the search term Weltkrieg, or Infanterie Regiment to locate many other regimental histories and and other publications. Also from this website [http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=6955&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Kriegsgeschichte der 12. Batterie Fußartillerie-Regiment Nr 13''].
: Links to further regimental histories (German language) may be found in the ''Great War Forum'' topic "Free German Regimental History Books"<ref>charlie2. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/232455-free-german-regimental-history-books/?do=findComment&comment=2561910 Free German Regimental History Books]
''Great War Forum'' 7 September 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref> and "More German Regimental histories due soon"<ref> charlie2. [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/topic/260146-more-german-regimental-histories-due-soon/ More German Regimental histories due soon] ''Great War Forum'' 12 April 2018. Retrieved 17 April 2018.</ref>. For some of the latter [http://digital.slub-dresden.de/kollektionen/ Search SLUB Dresden] Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB) Dresden.
:'''Note''', some Digital Libraries may provide a Full text option, which may be copied to Google Translate or similar, for an English translation if this is required.
:German language digitised documents from State Archives of the Russian Federation. [http://tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org/de/nodes/1-deutsche-beuteakten-zum-ersten-weltkrieg-im-zentralarchiv-des-verteidigungsministeriums-der-russischen-f-deration-bestand-500-findbuch-12519 German language webpage], [https://translate.google.com.au/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftsamo.germandocsinrussia.org%2Fde%2Fnodes%2F1-deutsche-beuteakten-zum-ersten-weltkrieg-im-zentralarchiv-des-verteidigungsministeriums-der-russischen-f-deration-bestand-500-findbuch-12519 Google Translate English webpage]. Includes KriegsTageBuch (KTB) and German maps. tsamo.germandocsinrussia.org
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz381969959 ''Die graue Felduniform der deutschen Armee''] 5th edition [1915] Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart. Read online, or download. [https://archive.org/details/1910000aGraueFelduniform File of images, Archive.org 1910 edition]
*[https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.9_89630/2?r=0&s=1 ''Generals Die In Bed''] by Charles Yale Harrison 1930, first published 1928. canadiana.ca. [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500061h.html 1928 edition], a transcription by Project Gutenberg Australia. [https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20141066 1930 edition], a transcription by Faded Page (Canada). [https://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/100-stories/Pages/harrison.aspx Charles Yale Harrison] (bac-lac.gc.ca) (1898-1954) was an 18-year-old student when he enlisted with the 244th (Kitchener’s Own) Battalion on January 24, 1917, in Montreal. He was wounded in August 1918. [https://www.englishworks.com.au/generals-die-bed-charles-harrison/ About the book] englishworks.com.au.[https://www.wlajournal.com/wlaarchive/23_1-2/clausson.pdf "Charles Yale Harrison’s “Little-Known Minor Masterpiece”: ''Generals Die in Bed'', Modernism, and the Canon of World War I Fiction"] by Nils Clausson ''War, Literature & the Arts'' 23 (2011).
:Revised edition, classified Juvenile/Young Adult Fiction: [https://archive.org/details/generalsdieinbed00char ''Generals die in bed : a story from the trenches''] 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1939&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Green Envelopes''] No author appears on the title page, however the author is identified as Colonel Lionel James, pre WW1 war correspondent and WW1 Commander of King Edward’s Horse<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200331014345/https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWI-1929-GREEN-ENVELOPES-Letters-from-WESTERN-FRONT-to-a-typical-English-Village-/382194859732 Ebay listing ResurgamBooks (dilapsus)] and Lionel James [http://www.northwoodvillage.org.uk/tchudsonarticles/he-wielded-pen-and-sword-by-t-c-hudson/ "He Wielded Pen and Sword"] northwoodvillage.org.uk</ref>. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. A [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29136813 review] says "These are the familiar "green envelopes" of active service during the war. ...letters which were really written…" (names changed). The British Library catalogue entry includes the words "A novel", however in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, the book is classified WW1 Personal narratives, British. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". [https://archive.org/details/greenenvelopes Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167522/page/n9 ''The W Plan''] by Graham Seton 1930 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Machine Guns|Machine Guns]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/roadstoglory0000aldi/page/n5 ''Roads to Glory''] by Richard Aldington 1930. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/williammarchomni0000marc/page/n17/mode/2up ''Company K''] by William March, originally serialised 1930-32 and published as a book 1933, from ''A William March Omnibus'' published 1956. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_K Company K] Wikipedia. "...among the most important of all war novels". March (pseud.) was a decorated U S Marine, birth name William Edward Campbell.
*[https://archive.org/details/wethatwereyoungn00rath/page/n5 ''We That Were Young : a Novel''] by Irene Rathbone, with a preface by E.M. Delafield ; and with a new introduction by Lynn Knight. 1989 reprint, first published 1932. Also reprinted in England in 1988 in the series Virago Modern Classics (no. 306). The author volunteered for war service, working at two YMCA camps in France and as a VAD in London. Her novel draws upon those experiences as well as upon those of a close friend who worked in a munitions factory. Archive.org Books to Borrow/ Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/wingedvictory0000yeat_o3r0/mode/2up ''Winged Victory''] by V M Yates 2010 reprint of 1934 original edition. Based very largely on the author’s experiences as a fighter pilot. [https://archive.org/details/wingedvictory0000yeat_h3l9/mode/2up 1985 reprint of 1961 edition] which contained a new preface and a tribute by Henry Williamson. The latter volume a volume in the series ''Echoes of War''. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow. Also see [[Western Front#In the Air|In the Air]] above, for more about the author.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.13580/page/n3 ''In Parenthesis''] by David Jones 1937. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Jones_(artist-poet) David Jones (artist-poet)] Wikipedia. “...a mixture of verse and prose-lines but the rich language establishes it as poetry”.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.503004 ''Across The Black Waters''] by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Archive.org. mirror from Digital Library of India. A novel about Indian (Punjabi) soldiers who have crossed the black waters, against all the advice of their forefathers that calamity would befall anyone who went overseas, to join the British and their allies on the Western Front. The author was born in Peshawar in 1905, so was too young for first-hand experience of the war, but the book has a very authentic feel, suggesting that he not only did his research in books but also listened to the stories of older men who came back. He grew up in military cantonments, according to the introduction.<ref> Liz in Eastbourne. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236997-across-the-black-water-by-mulk-raj-anand/ Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand] ''Great War Forum'' 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref> [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000806/spectrum/books.htm#5 Review] by Randeep Wadehra, August 6, 2000 ''The Tribune''
*[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44348 ''Dastral of the Flying Corps''] by Rowland Walker. First published 1917. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/dastraloftheflyi44348gut Archive.org version] [http://rowlandwalker.yolasite.com About the author]. The author was in the RFC. An adventure story.
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30698 ''Aces Up''] by Covington Clarke 1929 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/aces_up_1805_librivox Librivox audio version]. Archive.org. About American aviators.
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*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.241464 ''Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter''] by Captain W E Johns 1954. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Contains thirteen short stories, eleven of which were originally published in ''The Camels Are Coming'' (1932) and two of which were originally published in ''Biggles Of The Camel Squadron'' (1934), originally written for older adolescents. Note however Wikipedia states "The early First World War books were reprinted in the 1950s, when the Biggles books had acquired a younger readership and were bowdlerised".
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28%22Biggles+in+World+War+1%22%29&sort=date ''Biggles in World War 1'' Archive.org collection of 5 volumes] of short stories which originally appeared in magazines.
