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*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012679548 ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. Officers and men of the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India who became the military postal service of the Indian Army. Includes chapters on the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft#page/538/mode/2up "From an Indian Post Office in France"] page 538 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 197 January- June 1915. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/sixtysquadronraf00scot ''Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. : a History of the Squadron from its Formation''] by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott 1920 Archive.org. Originally Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA366808 ''Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I''] by George K Williams 1999. Archive.org.
→Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general
*For Indian Army regimental histories, see [[1st Bengal Lancers (Skinner's Horse)]]; [[2nd Bengal Lancers (Gardner's Horse)|2nd Lancers (Gardner’s Horse)]]; [[Hodson's Horse]]; [[20th Deccan Horse]]; [[29th Lancers (Deccan Horse)]]; [[38th Central India Horse]]; [[Bhopal Battalion|9th Bhopal Infantry]]; [[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|Garhwal Rifles]]; [[6th Regiment of Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force|59th Scinde Rifles]]; [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry| 67th Punjabis]]; [[127th Baluch Light Infantry|127th Baluchis]]; the histories being on fold3 (Ancestry owned pay website).
:Other regimental histories, see [[2nd Gurkha Rifles|2nd King Edward's Own Goorkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)]]; [[44th Gurkha Rifles| 8th Gurkha Rifles]]- the 2/8th Gurkha Rifles had many deaths on the Western Front; [[2nd Bombay Pioneers]];
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012679548 ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. Officers and men of the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India who became the military postal service of the Indian Army. Includes chapters on the Western Front.
**[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi197edinuoft#page/538/mode/2up "From an Indian Post Office in France"] page 538 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 197 January- June 1915. Archive.org.
*[https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/report-giving-the-history-of-the-chinese-labour-corps-used-behind-the-lines-in-france-1917-19 ''Report giving the history of the Chinese Labour Corps used behind the lines in France 1917-19''] British Library Mss Eur F288/110. Part of the family papers of Sir Leslie Fry, Mss Eur F288, (so possibly written by a family member?) British Library Digital.
*[https://archive.org/details/australianvictor00mona ''The Australian Victories in France in 1918''] by Lieutenant-General Sir John Monash [1920] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Monash John Monash] Wikipedia. In May 1918 he became commander of the Australian Corps.
*''From the Australian Front''. 1917. Reproductions of official photographs, and cartoons and sketches by members of the A. I. F [Australian Imperial Force] [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47737/47737-h/47737-h.htm Gutenberg.org version], [https://archive.org/details/fromaustralianfr00lond Archive.org version]
*[https://archive.org/details/sixtysquadronraf00scot ''Sixty Squadron, R.A.F. : a History of the Squadron from its Formation''] by Group-Captain A. J. L. Scott 1920 Archive.org. Originally Royal Flying Corps.
*[https://archive.org/details/DTIC_ADA366808 ''Biplanes and Bombsights: British Bombing in World War I''] by George K Williams 1999. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/germanairforcein00gurduoft ''The German Air Force in the Great War''] by Major Georg Paul Neumann, late of the German Air Force, translated by J E Gurdon 1920 Archive.org. From the original [https://archive.org/details/diedeutschenluf00neumgoog ''Die deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege''] 1920 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/deutschlandskrie00hoep ''Deutschlands Krieg in der Luft : ein Rückblick auf die Entwicklung und die Leistungen unserer Heeres-Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege''] by Ernst Wilhelm Arnold von Hoeppner 1921. Archive.org. German language. Also available [http://www.digar.ee/id/nlib-digar:237572 National Library of Estonia] - English webpage option available.
:[[findmypast]], pay website, includes a database [https://search.findmypast.co.uk/search-world-Records/british-army-records-and-regimental-histories British Army Records & Regimental Histories], located in Armed Forces & Conflict/Regimental & Service Records, introduced 2019/03/22, when it contained two WW1 Regimental histories, (but perhaps additional titles will be added). Click on 'Browse Title', select title, then click on 'View Results'. Note the fold3 version is easier to read online than the findmypast version, for books which are on both pay websites.
:[https://archive.org/details/doingsoffifteent00glei ''The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915''] by its Commander Brigadier General Count Gleichen (now Major-General Lord Edward Gleichen) 1917 Archive.org
:''The History of the Lancashire Fusiliers 1914-1918'' by J C Latter 1949. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume I], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-I/files/assets/basic-html/page8.html V.I Contents]; [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume II], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/The-History-of-the-Lancashire-Fusiliers-1914-1918-Volume-II/files/assets/basic-html/page3.html V. II Contents]. Transcribed editions by OCR, so subject to errors. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk.: ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol III (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th & 14th Battalions). [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html Volume III transcribed edition] lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Transcribed edition by OCR, so subject to errors.:An internet Search using the term lib[https://catalog.militaryarchivehathitrust.coorg/Record/000442395 ''The Coldstream Guards, 1914-1918''] by Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Ross-of-Bladensburg 1928 HathiTrust Digital Library:[https://archive.uk may find other histories from this sourceorg/details/moralestudyofmen00bayn/page/n5 ''Morale: a study of men and courage; the Second Scottish Rifles at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle, 1915''] by John Baynes 1967 Archive.org Lending Library
* ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'' by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284463 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, with chapters on the British Expeditionary Force.
*[https://archive.org/details/armyservicecorps00puck ''Army Service Corps of the British Army, and, the organization of the transport and transportation at the front in France : lectures delivered before the officers of the Quartermaster Corps and Quartermaster Reserve Corps at Washington, D.C., May 1917''] by Lieut. Col. F K Puckle, A S C, British Army. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/signalserviceine00prie ''The Signal Service in the European War of 1914-1918 (France)''] by R E Priestley (Late Major, R E) 1921 Archive.org. Part of the above series ''The Work of the Royal Engineers in the European War''. Includes information about the use of [https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/357/mode/1up carrier pigeons] (Index entry)
**[https://archive.org/stream/signalserviceine00prie#page/10/mode/2up/search/Indian Page 11] includes a very brief reference to the Indian Telegraph units of the Indian Army. These were very likely to have been men from the [[Post and Telegraphs Department|Post and Telegraphs Department]] in India, who were appointed to the Army at the outbreak of war. Also see the following book.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland waterways and docks, royal engineers in war time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes mention of Train Ferries from 1917. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Includes chapters on France, and chapters on the Royal Marine Artillery.
