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*''Keeling letters & recollections''. [Frederic Hillersdon Keeling [Ben]] Edited by E.T. [Townshend, Mrs. (Emily)] 1918. The war years start [https://archive.org/details/keelinglettersre00keeluoft/page/182 page 183]. Archive.org. A committed socialist, it appears he became a private, and later Sergeant-Major, in the 6th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (although the text initially says Duke of York’s). [https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/collected-writings-of-john-maynard-keynes/frederic-hillersdon-keeling/6534E545B637EE1D68312EAEDD94B9E6 Summary of a chapter] titled "Frederic Hillersdon Keeling" from ''The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes''. cambridge.org [http://www.winchestercollegeatwar.com/archive/frederic-hillersdon-keeling/ Biographical details] winchestercollegeatwar.com
*[https://archive.org/details/ifwereturnletter00manwrich/page/n5 ''If We Return; Letters of a Soldier of Kitchener's Army''] by G B Manwaring 1918 Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/details/overtherebackint01smit/page/n7 ''Over there and back in three uniforms, being the experiences of an American boy in the Canadian, British and American armies at the front and through No man's land''] by Joseph Shuter Smith 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofdeadoffic00westrich ''The Diary of a Dead Officer, being the posthumous papers of Arthur Graeme West''], c 1918. Archive.org. Includes Part V "Poems". [https://archive.org/details/diary_dead_officer_rg_librivox Librivox audio version]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Graeme_West Arthur Graeme West] Wikipedia. He joined as a private; in August 1916 he became a second lieutenant in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
*[https://archive.org/details/privateinguards00grah ''A Private in the Guards''] by Stephen Graham 1919 Archive.org. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Graham_(author) Stephen Graham (author)] Wikipedia. Also see a further book under [[Western Front#Miscellaneous|Miscellaneous]] below.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/nyp.33433081555660?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''Wine, Women and War: a Diary of Disillusionment''] by Anonymous. 10th edition 1927, first published 1926. Hathi Trust Digital Library. [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015010945122?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 2nd Hathi Trust file]. The author is catalogued as Howard Vincent O'Brien, American novelist and journalist. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Vincent_O%27Brien Howard Vincent O'Brien] Wikipedia. Appointed 1st Lieutenant Field Artillery, [US Army] November 1917, and later became a Liaison Officer.
*[https://archive.org/details/subalternonsomme00mark ''A Subaltern on the Somme in 1916''] by Mark VII [Max Plowman] 1928, first published 1927. Archive.org. 10th West Yorks. On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n5 ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War''] with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell according to a page from [https://www.henrywilliamson.co.uk/bibliography/a-lifes-work/a-soldiers-diary-of-the-great-war henrywilliamson.co.uk]. Bell was with different battalions of the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, and then joined the Royal Flying Corps.
*[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
*[https://archive.org/details/fightingflyingc00rickgoog ''Fighting the Flying Circus''] by Eddie Rickenbacker U S Air Service 1919 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/fighting_flying_circus_1104_librivox LibriVox audio recording] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/explorerinairser00binguoft/page/n9 ''An Explorer in the Air Service''] by Hiram Bingham, formerly Lieutenant-Colonel, Air Service, USA 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.527721/page/n195 Page 174] ''A Soldier’s Diary Of The Great War'' with an Introduction by Henry Williamson 1929. . Published anonymously, but by Douglas H. Bell. The author transferred to the Royal Flying Corps. Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and others|Infantry and others]], above.
*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970 Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & air battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
