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*Mukherji - Captain Kalyan Kumar Mukherji, I M S arrived in Mesopotamia in 1915. After the fall of Kut he was sent to a prisoner-of-war camp at Ras al-‘Ain, Syria where he died in 1917. He was posthumously awarded the Military Cross. His letters to his family were incorporated into a book, in Bengali, available online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website, catalogued as ''Kalyan-Pradip'' by Mokshada Debi (two book files) Some excerpts have been translated into English by Amitav Ghosh. Scroll down to the entry [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?m=201207 The ‘Home and the World’ in Iraq 1915-17: Part 1] to commence. For the final posts, [http://amitavghosh.com/blog/?m=201208 scroll down to the bottom three posts]. Written July- August 2012 amitavghosh.com (retrieved 10 May 2014).
*O'Meara - ''I’d Live it Again'' by Lieut.-Col Eugene John O’Meara, Indian Medical Service (rtd) 1935 is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. The author is catalogued as Meara. An autobiography. He joined the IMS in 1898
*Scriven - Captain Robert Douglas Scriven of the Indian Medical Service was awarded the Military Cross<ref>[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/3277335670/supplement/8599 3601/ ''London Gazette'' Tuesday 18 August 1942] Supplement:
35670 Page: 3601</ref> for his escape in 1942 from a Japanese P.O.W. camp, following the fall of Hong Kong in December 1941 His story is told in this [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1469554/Colonel-Tony-Hewitt.html obituary of Colonel Tony Hewitt].<ref> [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1469554/Colonel-Tony-Hewitt.html Obituary of Colonel Tony Hewitt] www.telegraph.co.uk 17 Aug 2004</ref>
*Spackman - W.C. Imperial War Museums [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030007535 catalogue entry: Private Papers of Colonel W C Spackman]: Ts memoir (331pp) covering his service as Regimental Medical Officer to the 48th Pioneers, 6th Indian Division in Mesopotamia, 1914 - 1915, at Kut during the siege, December 1915 - April 1916, and as a prisoner of war in Anatolia, 1916 – 1918. An edited version has been published: ''Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks: The Great War Diaries of Colonel William Spackman'', edited by Colonel R.A. Spackman.
