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*[https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P02317.025/ Photograph: Persia. 1918. A convoy of over ten Ford vans formed up ready for departure] Australian War Memorial.
*[http://levantineheritage.com/troops.htm Photographs; British and French Troops in Constantinople] levantineheritage.com
*[http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/col-j-s-lord/ 1975 interview], with [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/068a.pdf transcript 1] and [http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/068b.pdf transcript 2], with Colonel J.S. Lord, Indian Army Officer, 124th Baluchistan Infantry. s-asian.cam.ac.uk. Colonel Lord tells of his experiences of the Army in India and Persia during the First World War, including a anecdote of the infamous influenza. He refers to actions around Bushire which involved Wassmuss, the “German Lawrence” [who was the German Consul at Bushire], see [https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/AS19190628.2.132 "Where Is Wassmuss ?"] paperspast.natlib.govt.nz ''Auckland Star'', 28 June 1919.*[http://www.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/archive/audio/collection/a-moffatt/ 1979 Audio recording by Mrs Agnes Moffatt, wife of an officer 1st Kumaon Rifles] with [http://media.s-asian.cam.ac.uk/pdf/077a.pdf Typescript Part 1]. s-asian.cam.ac.uk. She first joined her husband in Constantinople in 1921 where the Battalion was guard to the Allied Headquarters.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=g4SbP95FkT0C&pg=PA284 Bibliography of Memoirs and other First Hand accounts] page 284 ''The Russian Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921: An Annotated Bibliography'' by Jonathan Smele Google Books.
*[http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/49601/HAIDAR%20PASHA%20CEMETERY Haidar Pasha Cemetery] a suburb of Istanbul. Includes a Memorial and Addena panel erected to commemorate Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War who died fighting in South Russia, Georgia and Azerbaijan, and in post Armistice operations in Russia and Transcaucasia, whose graves are not known, together with others buried in cemeteries in South Russia and Transcaucasia whose graves can no longer be maintained. cwgc.org. Those commemorated include Lieut.-Colonel Geoffrey Davis Pike, head of the ‘Caucasus Military Agency’, killed, probably executed, by the Bolsheviks in August 1918. <ref>medalmaniac [Les] [http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?/topic/188176-col-gd-pike-mc-9th-gurkhas-kia-caucasus-15-august-1918/&do=findComment&comment=2458361 Col G.D. Pike MC, 9th Gurkhas, KIA Caucasus 15 August 1918] ''Great War Forum'' 1 November 2016. Retrieved 12 November 2016.</ref>
