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====Volunteers and others====
*''The First World War, 1914-1918: Personal Experiences of Lieut.-Col. C. à Court Repington'' 1920. [An autobiography]. [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar01repi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/firstworldwar19100repi Volume II] Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_à_Court_Repington Charles à Court Repington] 1858-1925. Wikipedia. He was a former British Army Officer who was military correspondent for ''The Times'' 1904–1918, who had many influential contacts with officers in the Army's highest ranks.
*[https://archive.org/details/notebookofattach00wooduoft/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Note-book of an Attaché; seven months in the war zone''] by Eric Fisher Wood 1915 Archive.org. The author was studying in Paris at the outbreak of war, and became Attaché at the American Embassy under Ambassador Myron Herrick (until 10 February 1915). The American Embassy became responsible for German subjects remaining in France.
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00stro ''The Diary of an English Resident in France during twenty-two weeks of war time''] by Rowland Strong 1915 Archive.org. Elsewhere it is stated Rowland Strong was/had been the Paris correspondent for the ''Observer'', the ''Morning Post'' and the ''New York Times''.
:[https://archive.org/details/diaryofenglishre00strorich ''The Diary of an English Resident in France during war time. Second series, Jan.-Dec. 1915''] by Rowland Strong 1916 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/thatfriendofmine00kell/page/112 "In France"] page 113 ''That Friend of Mine : a Memoir of Marguerite McArthur'' by Josephine Kellett 1920. Archive.org. In France, McArthur was with the YMCA, working with libraries and educational classes for soldiers, at Etaples, from March 1918 to February 1919 when she died of pneumonia following influenza. Although a civilian, she was given a military funeral. Earlier, she had worked for two years in the Intelligence Department of the War Office in the Translation Bureau, and had also done volunteer war work in England.
*[https://archive.org/details/scavengerinfranc00bellrich ''A Scavenger in France : being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917-19''] by William Bell 1920 Archive.org. The author was a member of the F W V R C, Friends’ War-Victims’ Relief Committee, a Quaker organization.
*[http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html [American<nowiki>]</nowiki> Field Service/Library] contains accounts by American volunteers including some who drove ambulances and transport trucks. At least some of these volunteers were formally part of the French Army.
====Prisoners of War====
