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*[https://archive.org/details/minstrelinfranc00laud ''A Minstrel in France''] by Harry Lauder 1918 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Lauder Harry Lauder] (Wikipedia) was a very well known Scottish singer and comedian who had achieved international success.
*[https://archive.org/details/canteeningoverse00baldiala ''Canteening Overseas, 1917-1919''] by Marian Baldwin 1920 Archive.org. The author was mostly with the American YMCA in France.
*[https://archive.org/details/bettystevensonym00steviala/page/n7/mode/2up ''Betty Stevenson, Y. M. C. A., Croix de Guerre avec Palme; Sept. 3, 1896-May 30, 1918''] edited by C G R S and A G S 1920. Archive.org. She helped Belgium refugees in England, then worked in Paris in a YMCA canteen, initially with her aunt, then her mother. She subsequently became a YMCA driver in Étaples where her duties included driving relatives come to visit sick and dying relatives, but then due to health issues went back to canteen duties until she was killed in a bombing raid, aged 21. She is buried in a military cemetery.*[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 EtaplesÉtaples, 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.
*[https://archive.org/details/warmemories00croyuoft/mode/2up ''War Memories''] by Princess Marie de Croy 1932 Archive.org. A resident of Belgium, her house was turned into a hospital until the Germans took it over. In 1915 she was convicted by the Germans for sheltering Allied soldiers. Nurse Edith Cavell who was tried at the same time was shot for her part in these activities, however Princess Marie was sent to a civil prison in Germany which held criminals such as murderers and remained there until the war ended in 1918. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie_of_Croÿ Princess Marie of Croÿ] Wikipedia.
