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Infantry and others
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081555660?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment''] by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010945122?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2nd Hathi Trust file]. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American novelist and journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Vincent_O%27Brien Howard Vincent O'Brien] Wikipedia. Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternonsomme00mark ''A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916''] by Mark VII [Max Plowman] 1928, first published 1927. Archive.org. 10th West Yorks. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
: He had previously written [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89101084432?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''War and the creative impulse''] by Max Plowman; with preface by Henry W. Nevinson. 1919 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Plowman Max Plowman] (Wikipedia), actual name Mark.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208835/page/n7 ''A Subaltern’s War''] by Charles Edmonds (pseud.) [Charles Edmund Carrington] 1929 Archive.org. Full title ''A Subaltern’s War being a memoir of the Great War from the point of view of a romantic young man, with candid accounts of two particular battles, written shortly after they occurred, and an essay on militarism''. Carrington was a Lieutenant in the 1/5th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. [http://www.edwardlengel.com/not-disillusioned-charles-carrington-8-best-world-war-i-memoir/ "Not Disillusioned: A Subaltern’s War, #8 Best World War I Memoir"] by Edward Lengel, author of ''World War I Memories: An Annotated Bibliography of Personal Accounts Published in English Since 1919''.
*[https://archive.org/details/wearyroadrecolle0000doui/page/n7 ''The Weary Road : Recollections of a Subaltern of Infantry''] by Charles Douie 1988, first published 1929. Archive.org Lending Library. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs"<ref name=GWDJ/>. In August 1914 he joined “a Territorial unit of the 51st Highland Division”. He was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant in the 7th (Service) Battalion, the Dorsetshire Regiment (9 January 1915) and subsequently transferred to the 1/Dorsets, joining them in France 15 February 1916.
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