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*[https://archive.org/details/trenchpicturesfr00redm ''Trench Pictures from France''] by Major William Redmond, MP [Member of Parliament], killed in action June 1917. [1917] Archive.org. The articles which make up the bulk of the book were originally contributed to the ''Daily Chronicle'' under a pseudonym. He joined the Royal Irish Division, Royal Irish Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/twentytwomonthsu00crof ''Twenty-two Months Under Fire''] by Henry Page Croft 1917 Archive.org. The author belonged to 1st Battalion, Hertfordshire Regiment, a Territorial Regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/oneyoungmansimpl01hodd/page/n5 ''One Young Man; the simple and true story of a clerk who enlisted in 1914, who fought on the Western Front for nearly two years, was severely wounded at the battle of the Somme, and is now on his way back to his desk''] edited by J E Hodder-Williams 1917 Archive.org. The [https://archive.org/details/oneyoungman00willuoft/page/n5 Later edition] Archive.org which advises the young man enlisted was Reginald Davis, thought to be in D Company, 1/9th London Regiment (QVR (Queen Victoria's Rifles))<ref>bmac. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/44221-book-one-young-man-sidney-baxter-reginald-davis/?do=findComment&comment=371090 Book 'ONE YOUNG MAN': Sidney Baxter / Reginald Davis] ''Great War Forum'' 2 January 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2019.</ref>, a London Territorial Regimentterritorial regiment.
*[https://archive.org/details/nothingofimporta01adam ''"Nothing of Importance": Eight Months at the Front with a Welsh Battalion''] by Bernard Adams 1918 Archive.org. Elsewhere, the regiment is stated to be the 1st Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers.<ref>[http://www.naval-military-press.com/nothing-of-importance.-a-record-of-eight-months-at-the-front-with-a-welsh-battalion-october-1915-to-june-1916.html Naval & Military Press]</ref> On a list of "highly personal top 20 War Memoirs".<ref name=GWDJ/>
*[https://archive.org/details/irontimeswithgua00lond/page/n5 ''Iron Times with the Guards''] by An "O. E." ["O. E." Old Etonian; Geoffrey Philip Agnew Fildes, 2nd Coldstream Guards] 1918 Archive.org
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