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Historical books online
:A number of the accounts have been transcribed on [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/index.htm Memoirs & Diaries] firstworldwar.com including [https://www.firstworldwar.com/diaries/firstgasattack.htm "The First Gas Attack"] by Anthony R. Hossack, Queen Victoria Rifles [9th (County of London) Battalion, London Regiment]. To locate other entries, either scroll through all entries in the Memoirs & Diaries category or use your Search engine, with terms "Everyman at War" firstworldwar.com/diaries . Available [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006523443 HathiTrust Digital Library] for those with University Library access. Also available on the Library subscription website "The First World War" by Adam Matthew Digital, module "Personal Experiences", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories#First World War databases| Subscription websites - First World War databases]] for details of this database. To locate this publication, it is classified as a "Printed Book". The [[British Library]] is listed on the database website as a Participating Library. Card holders of the State Library of NSW can access The First World War: Personal Experiences module on their home computers.
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersoffall00emil/page/n5 ''War Letters of Fallen Englishmen''] edited by Laurence Housman [1930] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176613/page/n1/mode/2up ''Vain Glory. A miscellany of the Great War 1914-1918 written by those who fought in it on each side and on all fronts''] edited, and with an Introduction, by Guy Chapman 1937 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 in a three volume edition, 2020 pages (v. 1. August 4, 1914, to July 1, 1916; v. 2. July 4, 1916, to October 22, 1917; v. 3. Oct. 1917 to Jan. 1919 (Amalgamated Press)), the latter available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01001581634 . There was also a four volume reprint by Waverley.
: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.
*[https://archive.org/stream/longroadtovictor00buchuoft#page/180/mode/2up "The Tanks at Cambrai'"] by Lieutenant J C MacIntosh, Tank Corps page 181 ''The Long Road to Victory'' edited by John Buchan 1920.
:[https://archive.org/details/mentanks00maciiala ''Men and Tanks''] by J C MacIntosh. 1921 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''.
*[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.
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