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*[https://archive.org/details/memoirofltcoledw00steeiala ''A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations''] 1921 Archive.org. During WW1 he was on the Western Front with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
*[http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph011568508 ''The War Diary of the Master of Belhaven, 1914-1918''] by Ralph GA Hamilton 1924. University of Oxford Digital Collection. Alternative [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/503077282.pdf direct pdf link], same website. Diary of the Hon. Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton, Master of Belhaven. Served as an interpreter with the Expeditionary Force in 1914 until wounded, returned to France in September 1915 as O/C “C” Bty., 108 Bde. Royal Field Artillery, 24th Div. Later rose to command the brigade. Killed in action 31st March 1918.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208934/page/n149/mode/2up WW1 period] page 139 ''Clouds That Flee'' by Colonel Montague Cooke 1935. Archive.org. Born 1877, a career soldier, Cooke was in France two periods 1914-1916 and 1918, initially with the 5th Royal Horse Artillery Artillery Brigade as a Battery Commander.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209654/page/n249 WW1 period] page 241 ''Sword And Stirrup'' by Hervey De Montmorency 1936 Archive.org. Initially the author commanded D Battery, 75th Brigade Royal Field Artillery. After the war he worked as an Intelligence Officer in Ireland.
*[https://archive.org/details/blastingbombardi0000unse/page/n3/mode/2up ''Blasting & Bombardiering''] by Wyndham Lewis 1937. [https://archive.org/details/blastingbombardi0000lewi/page/n5/mode/2up 1967 reprint] Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyndham_Lewis Wyndham Lewis] Wikipedia. Writer and artist. He served as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, with much of his time spent in Forward Observation Posts
