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**[https://www.flickr.com/photos/39631091@N03/6932593819/in/album-72157622412214804/ Belemedik c 1915-18] which includes text about Allied POWs, British and Indian, working along the railway. Working meant tunnel works, laying tracks but often loading and de-loading wagons. Others had to join road-construction teams. Gunter Hartnagel Collection on flickr.com. There are also associated photograph collections titled "Baghdad Railway: Now and then", and "Baghdad Railway: Taurus/Toros section"
*[http://www.levantineheritage.com/bel.htm Archive views of the Baghdad Railway] Levantine Heritage Foundation. Includes Belemedik.
*[http://www.gda-old.bayern.de/findmittel/ead/findbuch.php?fb=478&lft=49860&rgt=58181&alft=56260&argt=56279#ae Photograph collection ''Bildsammlung Palästina'' including the Taurus and Amanus mountains]. Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv (Bavarian State Archives). The Bavarian Squadron 304 (Bayerische Fliegerabteilung 304) travelled through the Ottoman empire to get to the Palestine front with their valuable aeroplanes. Part of their route took them through the Taurus and Amanus mountains 1917-1918. [https://www.gda.bayern.de/findmitteldb/Findbuch/5450/ Bildsammlung Palästina] Click on Findbuch –Vorwort for details of the collection. German language. Select [https://www.gda.bayern.de/findmitteldb/Kapitel/7284 05.1.2.5 Bodenaufnahmen], then go to page 11 for photographs commencing "Im Amanus-Gebirge" reference 1356. The photographs continue on to Constantinople over the next few pages.
*[https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:203611/s00855804_1990_14_4_136.pdf "Australian Submariner P.O.W.'s After The Gallipoli Landing"] by M. W. D. White ''Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland'' Volume 14 1990 issue 4: pages 136-144. University of Queensland website.
:[http://ae2.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/AE2_Article_Col_Marcus_Fielding.pdf From the Sea of Marmara to the North Gate of Baghdad: The Story of Four HMAS AE2 Crew Members] by Colonel Marcus Fielding, Australian Army, written c 2009. The crew was taken into captivity by the Turks. With quotes from the diary of AE2 crew member Able Seaman Albert Knaggs. ae2.org.au
