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*[https://archive.org/details/undertonesofwar00edmu ''Undertones of War''] by Edmund Blunden 1929 Archive.org. Subaltern in Royal Sussex at the Somme & Passchendaele. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.447392 ''Goodbye To All That''] by Robert Graves. New edition revised, November 1957, 2nd edition March 1958. First published 1929. Archive.org. (Catalogued with a different author). Graves was in the Royal Welch Fusiliers as a Special Reserves Officer. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Graves Robert Graves] Wikipedia
*Siegfried Sassoon was an officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. See his entry under [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below, which also includes a link to his handwritten Journals.
*[https://archive.org/details/passionateprodig00chap ''A Passionate Prodigality: Fragments of Autobiography''] by Guy Chapman. 1966 edition, first published 1933. Archive.org [https://archive.org/about/faqs.php#Borrow_from_Lending_Library Lending Library]. [First you must register. Only one person at a time is able to read the book, as in a 'real' library, so you may need to go on a waiting list]. He was Adj. 13th Batt. Royal Fusiliers, who was gassed at Arras. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/brasshatinnomans00fran ''A Brass Hat in No Man's Land''] by Brig.-Gen. F P Crozier 1930. Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Percy_Crozier Frank Percy Crozier] Wikipedia. He commanded the 9th (Service) Battalion of the 107th (Ulster) Brigade and subsequently commanded the 119th (Welsh) Brigade.
====Fiction====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123680 ''Memoirs of an Infantry Officer''] by Siegfried Sassoon 1930. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. A fictionalised account of Sassoon's own life during and immediately after World War I. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoirs_of_an_Infantry_Officer About the book] Wikipedia. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War"<ref name=GWDJ/>. Its predecessor, also an autobiographical novel, is [https://archive.org/details/memoirsoffoxhunt00sieg ''Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man''], first published 1928. Archive.org Lending Library. The third book in the trilogy is [https://archive.org/details/sherstonsprogres00sass ''Sherston's Progress''], first published 1936. Archive.org Lending Library.
**[http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/sassoon Sassoon Journals] Cambridge Digital Library. Links to handwritten Journals.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781411403628 ''All Quiet On The Western Front''] by Erich Maria Remarque. Archive.org Lending Library. [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28WESTERN+Front%29+AND+creator%3A%28Remarque%2C%29&sort=-date Other digital files] are available to borrow. On a list of "The 20 most significant novels of the Great War".<ref name=GWDJ/>.
:[https://archive.org/details/AllQuietOnTheWesternFront_201608 Audio version: ''All Quiet On The Western Front''] Archive.org
