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*[https://archive.org/details/liddellhartmemoi00lidd ''The Liddell Hart Memoirs 1895-1938 Volume I''] 1965. Archive.org Lending Library. The author became an officer in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._H._Liddell_Hart B. H. Liddell Hart] Wikipedia. Military historian and military theorist.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofmalayan0000purc/page/n5 ''The Memoirs of a Malayan Official''] by Victor Purcell 1965 Archive.org Lending Library. The initial four chapters are Purcell's account of his time as a young officer with the 11th (Service) Battalion of the Green Howards, including his time as a Prisoner of War.
*[https://archive.org/details/cannonfodderinfa00dold ''Cannon Fodder : An Infantryman's Life on the Western Front, 1914-18''] by A Stuart Dolden 1980 Archive.org Lending Library. “Dolden was a solicitor who enlisted as a Private soldier …an excellent account of the life of an enlisted man, sometime bomber, sometime cook in D Company, 1st/14th London Regiment …a must read for those who want to know “what it was like”.”<ref name=LFH/>
*For a record of the "Sea Soldiers" of The Royal Marines, see [[Western Front#Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general|Other histories (regimental, corps etc.) and general, above]].
