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*[https://archive.org/details/ghostshavewarmha0000bird/page/n5 ''Ghosts have Warm Hands''] by Will R. Bird 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/canadian-will-birds-ghosts-have-warm-hands-5-best-wwi-memoir/ "#5 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. About 60% of this book consists of much of the content of the earlier publication ''And We Go On'', published 1930, reprinted 2014.<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/613074 Review: ''And We Go On: A Memoir of the Great War''] Review by Hanna Smyth. muse.jhu.edu</ref> Sometimes classified as fiction, but based on Bird's diaries. Bird served with the 42nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada (Black Watch), composed largely of men from Ontario and the Maritimes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_R._Bird Will R. Bird] , a Canadian who became an author.
*[https://archive.org/details/lifeapart0000thom/page/n5 ''A Life Apart''] by Alan Thomas 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Alan Ernest Wentworth Thomas served with the 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Elsewhere it is stated he had a varied career, including as a barrister, editor for nineteen years, between 1939 and 1957, of ''The Listener'', and as an author.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofwar19140000bloc/mode/2up ''Memoirs of War, 1914-15''] by Marc Bloch. Translated and with an introduction by Carole Fink 1988 edition, first published 1980. Translation of the French language ''Souvenirs de Guerre, 1914-1915'' published 1969. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Born 1886, Bloch was a French medievalist and economic historian who was shot by the Germans in WW2 as a leader of the French Resistance. The first part of the account covers the months August 1914 to January 1915, and was written later in 1915. He joined the 272nd reserve regiment (18th company 4th platoon) with the rank of sergeant, and later became an officer. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Bloch Marc Bloch] Wikipedia.
*''A Victorian Son: an Autobiography, 1897-1922'' by Stuart Cloete 1973. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/victoriansonauto0000cloe/page/180/mode/2up page 181]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Cloete Stuart Cloete] (Wikipedia) says he was commissioned into the 9th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, before later transferring to the Coldstream Guards. He later lived in South Africa and became a novelist.
*[https://archive.org/details/fifteenroundsmin0000jeff/page/n5/mode/2up ''"Fifteen rounds a minute" : the Grenadiers at war, August to December 1914''] Edited from the diaries and letters of Major 'Ma' Jeffries and others by J M Craster 1976. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
