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*[https://archive.org/details/onlookerinfrance00orpe/page/n7 ''An Onlooker in France 1917-1919''] by Sir William Orpen 1921 Archive.org. At this time he was an official War Artist [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Orpen William Orpen] Wikipedia. He had been commissioned into the Army Service Corps in 1916, and as a war artist he was officially working for the Department of Information.
*[https://archive.org/details/wanderingsoftemp00bacoiala/page/n8 ''The Wanderings of a Temporary Warrior : a territorial officer's narrative of service (and sport) in three continents''] by Captain Alban F L Bacon (late Hampshire Regiment) [2/4 Battalion] 1922. Archive.org. Includes Western Front and India, [[Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)|Egypt/Palestine]].
*[https://archive.org/details/fouryearsonweste0000smit/page/n3/mode/2up ''Four years on the Western Front : being the experiences of a Ranker in the London Rifle Brigade, 4th, 3rd and 56th Divisions''] by a Rifleman (Aubrey Smith). 1999 reprint, first published 1922. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Largely taken from letters home. Smith joined the transport section as a [Horse] Driver when the Battalion was on L. of C. [Lines of Communications] in the summer following the second battle of Ypres in 1915.
*[https://archive.org/details/innocenteye0000read/page/176/mode/2up ''In Retreat : A Journal of the Retreat of the Fifth Army from St. Quentin, March 1918''] page 176 ''The Innocent Eye'' by Herbert Read, 1947, printed in USA. [https://archive.org/details/annalsofinnocenc0000read/page/158/mode/2up 2nd file] page 159 ''Annals of Innocence and Experience'', new revised and enlarged edition 1946 printed in Great Britain. ''The Retreat'' was written 1919, but first published 1925, as a stand alone volume. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/war-as-revolution/in-retreat/ "The smaller picture: ‘In Retreat’ – Herbert Read and the 2nd Green Howards during the German March Offensive 1918"] by Philip Dutton. ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk.
*[https://archive.org/details/towardflamewardi00herv ''Toward the Flame: a War Diary''] by Hervey Allen. Revised edition, with illustrations 1934, first published 1926. Archive.org. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/a-doughboys-march-toward-the-flame-6-best-wwi-memoir/ "#6 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. The author was a Lieutenant in the United States Army, and subsequently became an author and poet. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hervey_Allen Hervey Allen] Wikipedia.
