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*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b283017?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''On the road from Mons with an Army Service Corps Train''] by its commander (Capt. A. Clifton-Shelton, A.S.C.) 2nd edition 1917, first published 1916. HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/roadmons/page/n9/mode/2up Archive.org version].
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half 
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/motorbuswar/page/n5/mode/2up Archive.org version]. The author was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division. Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum'' 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/warlettersofpubl00jone/page/n7/mode/2up ''War Letters of a Public-School Boy''] by Paul Jones 1918. Archive.org. He was killed in action 31 July 1917 when a Lieutenant in the Tank Corps, but prior to February 1917 was in the Army Service Corps, performing duties such as Brigade Supply Officer, Brigade Requisitioning Officer and Divisional Forage Purchasing Officer for a Cavalry Brigade and Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/truckingtotrench00kautrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Trucking to the Trenches; Letters from France, June-November 1917''] by John Iden Kautz 1918 Archive.org. An American, he volunteered with a group of American University volunteers to drive ambulances, but drove instead munition transport trucks, officially part of the French Army. The service was eventually taken over by the American Army, and he transferred to the Quartermaster Corps (transport division). This book also appears on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122162718/http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html American Field Service/Library] website, now archived, under the heading "Réserve Mallet truck transport units", [https://web.archive.org/web/20081201233711/http://www.ourstory.info/2/c/Mallet.html more details], archived.
:''History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917,'' told by its members. With illustrations. [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. III''] Contains “The Camion Section” Archive.org
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