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*[https://archive.org/details/adventuresofensi00will ''The Adventures of an Ensign''] by Vedette 1917 Archive.org "...the autobiography, thinly disguised as fiction and very cleverly written, of a subaltern who joined the Guards in France just before the battle of the Somme, in which he was wounded... The best chapters recount the magnificent advance of the Guards towards Lesboeufs on September 15th, 1916, the first day on which the tanks were used."<ref>[http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-december-1917/14/books ''The Spectator'' 29 December 1917, page 14.], which now requires a subscription.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/letterstohiswife00vernrich/page/n8 ''Letters to his Wife''] by R E Vernède 1917 Archive.org. He was a novelist commissioned in 5th (SR) Bn. Rifle Brigade, attd. 3rd Bn. in France 1915-16; wounded on the Somme; then with 12th (Service) Bn. 1917 & DoW post-Arras, 9/4/17.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191204220208/https://turnerdonovan.com/download/currCat.pdf Turner Donovan] December 2019, item 259</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n9/mode/2up ''The Note-book of an Intelligence Officer''] by Eric Fisher Wood 1917 Archive.org. An American, with high level contacts, he became a major in the British Army (63rd (Royal Naval) Division [Infantry] attached GHQ ID (ID=Naval Intelligence Division)) having been commissioned as a Lieutenant-Commander. Some of the book relates to his time in France from February 1917, [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n191/mode/1up Page 143], up until 9 April 1917, when he was wounded at the Battle of Arras. Some of the book is of a more general nature, including interviews, and the Clothing and other requirements for an officer [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990873/page/n257/mode/2up page 202]. By the time of book publication later in 1917 he was in the USA Army in USA. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fisher_Wood Eric Fisher Wood] Wikipedia. Also see [[Western Front#Volunteers and others|Volunteers and others, below]] for an earlier book.
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref> 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>
*[https://archive.org/details/irontimeswithgua00lond/page/n5 ''Iron Times with the Guards''] by An "O. E." ["O. E." Old Etonian; Geoffrey Philip Agnew Fildes, 2nd Coldstream Guards] 1918 Archive.org
====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/notebookofattach01wood/page/n7/mode/2up ''The Note-book of an Attaché; seven months in the war zone''] by Eric Fisher Wood 1915 Archive.org. Some of the images may be better in [https://archive.org/details/cihm_990872/mode/2up this 2nd version] Archive.org. The author was studying in Paris at the outbreak of war, and became Attaché at the American Embassy in Paris under Ambassador Myron Herrick. The American Embassy became responsible for German subjects remaining in France. Includes a period when Wood volunteered as an ambulance driver. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Fisher_Wood Eric Fisher Wood] Wikipedia. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others, above]] for a later book.
*[https://archive.org/details/myfouryearsinger00gera/page/n5 ''My four years in Germany''] by James W Gerard, late [USA] Ambassador to the German Imperial Court. 1917 Archive.org. He arrived in Belin late 1913.
*[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''.
