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Infantry and others
*[https://archive.org/details/cannonfodderinfa00dold ''Cannon Fodder : An Infantryman's Life on the Western Front, 1914-18''] by A Stuart Dolden 1980 Archive.org Lending Library. “Dolden was a solicitor who enlisted as a Private soldier …an excellent account of the life of an enlisted man, sometime bomber, sometime cook in D Company, 1st/14th London Regiment …a must read for those who want to know “what it was like”.”<ref name=LFH/>
*[https://archive.org/details/somedesperateglo0000vaug/page/6 ''Some Desperate Glory : the World War I Diary of a British Officer, 1917''] by Edwin Campion Vaughan 1988, first published 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author appears to have been Second Lieutenant, Warwickshire Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/manatarmsmemoirs0000lawf/mode/2up ''A Man at Arms : Memoirs of two World Wars''] by Francis Law 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Law was an officer in the Irish Guards who came to the Western Front in 1915, aged 18 (born 1897).
*[https://archive.org/details/sommemudexperien0000lync/mode/2up ''Somme Mud : the experiences of an infantryman in France, 1916-1919''] by E P F Lynch (Edward), edited by Will Davies. Published 2008, written in 1921. Lynch was in the Australian Imperial Force. The [https://archive.org/details/sommemudexperien0000lync/page/n7/mode/2up "Foreword"] says "This book compares with ''All Quiet on the Western Front''...". “A memoir built on a wartime diary and a unit history” in the form of a novel, and considered to be such by some, although the book details state "This book is a work of non-fiction". Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Also by the editor: ''In the footsteps of Private Lynch'' by Will Davies 2010, which is available at the [[British Library]] UIN: BLL01018531666 . [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Francis_Lynch Edward Francis Lynch] Wikipedia.
*[https://archive.org/details/tofightalongside0000mayc/mode/2up ''To Fight Alongside Friends : the First World War Diaries of Charlie May''] edited by Gerry Harrison 2014. Captain Charlie May was killed, aged 27, on 1 July 1916, leading the men of 'B Company', 22nd Manchester Service Battalion (the Manchester Pals) into action on the first day of the Somme. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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