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====Chaplains (Army)====
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz40746705X ''Letters of an Army Chaplain''] by William Duncan Geare 1918. Classified by IWM as Royal Army Chaplains Department, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 7, Liverpool Regt., Bn. 9. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer".
*[https://archive.org/details/padreinfrance00birm ''A Padre in France''] by George Birmingham, the pseudonym for James Owen Hannay, c 1919. Archive.org. He was appointed to the Chaplains Department, British Army
*[https://archive.org/details/onrightofbritish01nobb ''On the Right of the British Line''] by Captain Gilbert Nobbs (late L.R. B.) [London Rifle Brigade] 1917 Archive.org. Some editions are titled ''Englishman, Kamerad! Right of the British Line''. The author was blinded in battle, and became a POW. [https://qormuseum.org/soldiers-of-the-queens-own/nobbs-henry-gilbert/ Biographical details] qormuseum.org
*[https://archive.org/details/mudkhakisketches00bartiala ''Mud and Khaki, Sketches from Flanders and France''] by Vernon Bartlett 1917 Archive.org. Some of these sketches had appeared in the ''Daily Mail'' and the ''Daily Mirror''. The author subsequently became a journalist and politician. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernon_Bartlett Vernon Bartlett] Wikipedia. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ>[http://www.greatwardustjackets.co.uk/page44.html Great War Dust Jackets page] listing "War Memoirs : a highly personal top 20", by Great War Dust Jackets and "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War" from ''The Novels of World War 1 : An annotated bibliography'' by Philip Hager & Desmond Taylor. Garland Pub. 1981.</ref>
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz409536733 ''The Immortal First: a Private Soldier's Diary of his Experiences with the Original B.E.F., France''] by F Gaunt 1917. Ex Private 4th Royal Fusiliers. Digital Collection Württembergische Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart. English text, German website. For download, select "Ganzes Werk herunterladen". To read online, select "DFG-Viewer". Also available [http://search.slv.vic.gov.au/MAIN:Everything:SLV_VOYAGER208704 State Library of Victoria].
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027894751 ''Bullets & Billets''] by Bruce Bairnsfather 2nd edition 1917 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11232 Gutenberg.org edition], with cartoons collected at the front of the file. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bairnsfather Bruce Bairnsfather] Wikipedia. He was an officer in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, who became very well known for his cartoons.
:[https://archive.org/details/B-001-014-025 ''Fragments from France''] by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather 1917 Archive.org. A collection of cartoons. Published in 1916 (2nd edition) as ''The Bystander's Fragments from France''. [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.Fragments1 ''Vol. I''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV2 ''More Fragments from France
Vol. II''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV3 ''Still more Fragments from France
Vol. III''], [http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.FragmentsV4 ''Fragments from France
Vol. IV''] University of Wisconsin Digital Collections; [https://archive.org/details/morefragmentsfro00bair ''More Fragments from France Parts V-VIII''] c 1918 Archive.org.
