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:Volume II is also available on Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n3/mode/2up Volume II], [http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n7/mode/2up Contents], [http://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/538/mode/2up Index]. [https://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n3/mode/1up '''Map''': Middle East] and [https://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n627/mode/1up '''Maps''' 8-9, 11, 13-17, 19-20]. [https://archive.org/stream/campaigninmesopo02mobe#page/n18/mode/1up List of Maps]
: Links to pdfs [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285028 Vol I], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285005 Vol II], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/285017 Vol III], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/210669 Vol IV] Digital Library of India. Archive.org DLI versions: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666 Vol I, a different DLI file], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666/2015.210666.History-Of#page/n7/mode/1up List of Maps], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210666/2015.210666.History-Of#page/n424/mode/1up Maps] at back of book displayed out of order; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210668 Vol III, a different DLI file], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210668/2015.210668.The-Campaign#page/n13/mode/2up List of Maps], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210668/2015.210668.The-Campaign#page/n516/mode/1up Maps] at back of book displayed in reverse order; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.210669 Vol IV], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210669/2015.210669.The-Campaign#page/n20/mode/1up List of Maps], [https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.210669/2015.210669.The-Campaign#page/n510/mode/1up Maps] at back of book displayed out of order.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101048260184?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Report of the Commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the Operations of War in Mesopotamia. Together with a separate report by Commander J. Wedgwood and appendices'']. Presented to Parliament. HMSO 1917. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/structure/188193 Menadoc at Bibliothek.uni-halle.de version]. [https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000912.0x0000b2 Qatar Digital Library version]
:Note, this report also contains the Vincent Bingley report into the medical situation. In addition, separately [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206243 ''Appendices To The Report Of The Commission For Medical Arrangements In Mesopotamia Vol-II (July 1916)'']. Archive.org. Volume 1 of these Appendices does not appear to be available online, (National Archives reference CAB19/27).
*[http://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100023514019.0x00000b ''Critical Study of the Campaign in Mesopotamia up to April 1917: Part I – Report''] Compiled by officers of the Staff College Quetta 1925. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/1 Qatar Digital Library
:''Part II- Maps''. IOR/L/MIL/17/15/72/2. Refer Maps above.
*[http://archive.org/stream/medicalservicesg04macp#page/n3/mode/2up ''History of the Great War: Medical Services: General History Volume 4''] by Sir William Grant Macpherson and Thomas John Mitchell. Includes Mesopotamia. 1924 Archive.org
:[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b744277?urlappend=%3Bseq=242 "Casualties in the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force, November 1914 to December 1918"] page 218 ''History of the Great War Based on Official Documents: Medical Services: Casualties and Medical Statistics of the Great War'' by Major T. J. Mitchell and Miss G. M. Smith. 1931 Hathi Trust Digital Library
:[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/206243 ''Appendices To The Report Of The Commission For Medical Arrangements In Mesopotamia Vol-II (July 1916)'']. Link to a pdf download. Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206243 Archive.org version].
:[https://archive.org/stream/reviewofappliede51917comm#page/22/mode/2up "The Control of Flies and Vermin in Mesopotamia"] page 23 ''The Review of Applied Entomology Volume V 1917'' Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/stream/inmesopotamia00nico#page/50/mode/2up/ "Heat-Stroke"] Chapter IV page 51 ''In Mesopotamia'' by Martin Swayne (real name Maurice Nicoll) 3rd edition 1918 Archive.org. Heatstroke was also known as sunstroke, and occasionally as insolation or siriasis.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/150717 ''War In The Desert: An R. A. F. Frontier Campaign''] by John Bagot Glubb 1960. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.150717 Archive.org version]. Mainly about Iraq in the 1920s.
*[https://archive.org/details/waringardenofede00roosuoft ''War in the Garden of Eden''] by Kermit Roosevelt, Captain, Motor Machine Gun Corps 1919 Archive.org. The author was an American, the son of (pre WW1) US President Theodore Roosevelt, who was appointed an honorary Captain in the British Army in August 1917. Page 66 indicates the author was in the 14th Battery, Light-armoured motor-cars (14th L. A. M. B.). The fighting cars were Rolls-Royce.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101048260184?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''Report of the Commission appointed by Act of Parliament to enquire into the Operations of War in Mesopotamia. Together with a separate report by Commander J. Wedgwood and appendices'']. Presented to Parliament. HMSO 1917. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/landau/content/structure/188193 Menadoc at Bibliothek.uni-halle.de version]
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t9c54969p?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 ''The Liberator of Mesopotamia''] [Lieut.-General Sir Stanley Maude] by Basil Mathews 1918 Hathi Trust Digital Library
*Official Despatches from ''The London Gazette'' and details of some Official Documents digitised by the British Library, and other digitised material, are linked from [http://warletters.net/battles/mesopotamia/ Mesopotamia In The First World War] warletters.net. For despatches from ''The London Gazette'' from 1919, see further below.
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