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*[https://archive.org/details/historymemoirof300unse ''History and Memoir of the 33rd Battalion Machine Gun Corps and of the 19th, 98th, 100th and 248th M.G. Companies''] Written and Illustrated by Members of the Battalion 1919 Archive.org. Sometimes attributed to Graham Seton Hutchison, Divisional Machine Gun Officer of the 33rd Division.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.174625 ''Footslogger''] by Graham Seton 1933. Archive.org, Digital Library of India Collection. Full title: ''Footslogger; An autobiography'', by Graham Seton [pseud.] (Lieutenant-Colonel G. S. Hutchison ...)
: Also see [[Western Front#Fiction|Fiction]], below.
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100003297938.0x000002 ''A Brief Narrative of the Guards Machine Gun Battalion during the year 1918''] by Lieut.-Colonel R. Bingham. With an appendix entitled "Machine-Gun Tactics and Organisation." 1931. Typescript manuscript. British Library Digital Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/canadianemmagees00grafuoft ''The Canadian Emma Gees; a History of the Canadian Machine Gun Corps''] by Lt-Col C S Grafton 1938 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/younghildaatwars00gleaiala ''Young Hilda at the Wars''] by Arthur H Gleason 1915 Archive.org. The photograph at the front of the book is stated to be that of Helen, the author’s wife. Other characters in the book are stated to be based on Ambulance drivers Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm who worked as volunteers in Belgium.<ref>[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=FVU0CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT81 A page] from Chapter V, ''Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front'' by Diane Atkinson. Google Books.</ref>
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1939&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Green Envelopes''] No author appears on the title page. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. A [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29136813 review] says "These are the familiar "green envelopes" of active service during the war. ...letters which were really written…" (names changed). The British Library catalogue entry includes the words "A novel", however in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, the book is classified WW1 Personal narratives, British. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167522/page/n9 ''The W Plan''] by Graham Seton 1930 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Machine Guns|Machine Guns]], above.
*A novel: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/503004 ''Across The Black Waters''] by Mulk Raj Anand. Reprint edition, possibly 1955, originally published 1940. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. A novel about Indian (Punjabi) soldiers who have crossed the black waters, against all the advice of their forefathers that calamity would befall anyone who went overseas, to join the British and their allies on the Western Front. The author was born in Peshawar in 1905, so was too young for first-hand experience of the war, but the book has a very authentic feel, suggesting that he not only did his research in books but also listened to the stories of older men who came back. He grew up in military cantonments, according to the introduction.<ref> Liz in Eastbourne. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/236997-across-the-black-water-by-mulk-raj-anand/ Across the Black Waters by Mulk Raj Anand] ''Great War Forum'' 3 March 2016. Retrieved 3 June 2018.</ref> [http://www.tribuneindia.com/2000/20000806/spectrum/books.htm#5 Review] by Randeep Wadehra, August 6, 2000 ''The Tribune''
*A novel: [https://archive.org/details/ravilancersnovel00mast ''The Ravi Lancers''] by [[John Masters]] 1972. Internet Archive (Archive.org) Lending Library. (Only one person at a time is able to borrow, so you may need to wait for the book to be returned. First you must [https://archive.org/details/lendinglibrary&tab=about register]) . An Indian cavalry regiment is sent to France at the outbreak of the First World War.
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