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:[https://archive.org/details/doverpatrolstrai00bennuoft ''The Dover Patrol : the Straits, Zeebrugge, Ostend : including a Narrative of the Operations in the Spring of 1918''] by Jackstaff (J J Bennett) 1919 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/details/doverduringdarkd00coxorich ''Dover during the Dark Days''] by a "Dug-Out" (Lieut.-Commander Stanley W Coxon RNVR). With contributions by other officers of the Dover Patrol. 1919 Archive.org. A volume in the ''On Active Service'' Series.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. Hathi Trust Digital Library. May be unavailable in USA etc. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3 as an [https://www.fold3.com/browse/251/hTGb85NZ8wIfXXI19Nw8lk2wk online version] (located in World War II/Military Books/Britain, the first of two books with the same title) of a Naval & Military Press reprint. Also available [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/Britains-Sea-Soldiers-A-History-of-the-Royal-Marines-1914-1919/HTML/index.asp#/2/zoomed lib.militaryarchive.co.uk], [https://web.archive.org/web/20181009074148/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Miscellaneous-Volumes/library/Britains-Sea-Soldiers-A-History-of-the-Royal-Marines-1914-1919/HTML/index.asp#/2/zoomed Archive.org]which requires Flash turned on (click if you see a Flash icon).
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027871213 ''Indiscretions of the Naval Censor''] by Rear-Admiral Sir Douglas Brownrigg [1867-1939] 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/captiveongermanr00tray ''A Captive on a German Raider''] by F G Trayes 1918. Archive.org The author, who was retiring from [[Thailand|Siam]], was a passenger on a Japanese ship "Hitachi Maru" which was captured by the German "Wolf" on 26 September 1917, two days after leaving Colombo. For more about the "Wolf", see [[Royal Navy]].
*''The Bond of Sacrifice: a Biographical Record of all British Officers who fell in the Great War''. [https://archive.org/details/bondofsacrificeb01clut ''Volume I: August-December 1914''] edited by Colonel L A Clutterbuck, and Commander W T Dooner Archive.org. (Only two volumes were published, Volume 2 covered the first six months of 1915 and is available in some areas such as North America on the [https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000812123 Hathi Trust Digital Library]). Both volumes are available on [[findmypast]] (pay website).
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022541324.0x000002#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-2232.3057%2C-181%2C6619.6113%2C3620 ''Officers died in the Great War, 1914-1919'']. London : His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1919. Also available on [[findmypast]] and Ancestry (pay websites). British Library digital file.
*''The Roll of Honour. A biographical record of all members of His Majesty's naval and military forces who have fallen in the war'' by the Marquis De Ruvigny. [https://archive.org/details/rollofhonourbiog01ruvi Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/rollofhonourbiog02ruvi Volume III]. Archive.org. [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/The-Roll-of-Honour-Ruvigny-Volume-II Volume II], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/The-Roll-of-Honour-Ruvigny-Volume-IV/ Volume IV], [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/The-Roll-of-Honour-Ruvigny-Volume-V/ Volume V] lib.militaryarchive.co.uk. Requires Flash turned on (click if you see a Flash icon). Archive.org versions [https://web.archive.org/web/20181009050140/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/The-Roll-of-Honour-Ruvigny-Volume-II/#/1/zoomed Vol. II], [https://web.archive.org/web/20181009050544/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/The-Roll-of-Honour-Ruvigny-Volume-IV/#/1/zoomed Vol. IV]. [https://web.archive.org/web/20181009050717/http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/Biographical/library/The-Roll-of-Honour-Ruvigny-Volume-V/#/1/zoomed Vol. V]. Only published in these five volumes, the majority of the biographies relate to deaths in the early years of the war. Families needed to pay to be included, so entries reflect wealthier service personnel. All volumes are available on the pay websites Ancestry and [[findmypast]].
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