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:[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. Archive.org.
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*''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.
:[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]. 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/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
==== 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''. See :''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://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
*[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
*''"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).
