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:Swinton was Official Correspondent with the British Expeditionary Force in France, as newspaper correspondents were not allowed.
:[https://archive.org/details/yearagoeyewitnes00swinrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''A year ago; eye-witness's narrative of the war from March 20th to July 18th, 1915''] by Lieutenant-Colonel E D Swinton RE and Captain The Earl Percy 1916 Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210464 ''Eyewitness. Being Personal Reminiscences of Certain Phases of the Great War, Including the Genesis of the Tank''] by Major-General Sir Ernest D Swinton, R E (Retired) 1932. Archive.org. Digital Library of India Collection :Sir Ernest was the 1904 author of ''The Defence of Duffer’s Drift'', see [[Military periodicals online#Manuals, Handbooks etc| Military periodicals online]].
*Books by two out of 25 volunteer members of the RAC [Royal Automobile Club] Contingent, who volunteered with their own car, who were sent officially by the War Office to drive officers of the General Headquarters Staff at the front. As a result, they were in constant contact with very senior officers, and personally observed the course of events over a wide field. It seems they officially joined the Army, and were given officer status.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b42511?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Adventures on the Western Front, August, 1914-June, 1915''] by A Rawlinson 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, then aged 47, volunteered as a driver, who provided his own car, for service at the Front, as part of the RAC Contingent. For a book about later military related service by this author, see [[Norperforce]].
