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*:[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Guy_Empey Arthur Guy Empey] Wikipedia
**[https://archive.org/details/coveredwithmudgl00laforich ''Covered with mud and glory; a machine gun company in action ("Ma mitrailleuse")''] by Georges Lafond [of the French Army]. Translated by Edwin Gile Rich 1918 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/details/threechevrons00bidd ''Three Chevrons''] by "Orex" (Major H F Bidder) 1919. Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. Called up from the Reserve in 1914, at first Bidder was with 1 S Staffs and later as Brigade (21st) MG Officer and CO 1st Bn MGC. <ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/three-chevrons.html ''Three Chevrons''] Naval and Military Press</ref> Elsewhere it is stated the 'chevrons' of the title refer to the service chevrons worn on the right sleeve for each year of overseas service, blue for 1914-15 & red for each subsequent year.
**[http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/items/show/5732 "The Chronicles of the 3rd Bn MGC: No 1 Arras March 21-28 1918"] page 15, ''3rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps Magazine'', Issue no 1, May 1919. ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk. The British Library holds issues 1, and also 2 and 4-5 (at least 6 appear to have been published) - these latter also contain "Chronicles". These issues are available on the subscription website database ProQuest "Trench Journals and Unit Magazines of the First World War", which is available at the British Library and elsewhere - see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories]] for access through some libraries.
**[https://archive.org/details/historymemoirof300unse ''History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G. Companies''] Written and Illustrated by Members of the Battalion 1919 Archive.org. Sometimes attributed to Graham Seton Hutchison, Divisional Machine Gun Officer of the 33rd Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/ladiesfromhel00pink ''"Ladies from Hell"''] by R Douglas Pinkerton 1918. The author was a member of the London Scottish.
*[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.
*[https://archive.org/details/combedout00voiguoft ''Combed Out''] by F A Voigt 1920 Archive.org. The author subsequently became an influential journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Augustus_Voigt Frederick Augustus Voigt] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/silenceofcolonel00mauruoft ''The Silence of Colonel Bramble''] by André Maurois. Translated from the French by Thurfrida Wake. Verses translated by Wilfrid Jackson. 1920 Archive.org. The author, writing under a non de plume which subsequently became his legal name, was an interpreter, and subsequently liason officer with the IXth (Scotch) Division, when the book was written.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123680 ''Memoirs of an Infantry Officer''] by Siegfried Sassoon 1930. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_an_Infantry_Officer About the book] Wikipedia
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon Sassoon Journals] Cambridge Digital Library
