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:[http://www.levantineheritage.com/note23.htm Diary of Grace Williamson Smyrna 1914-1920]. Includes October-November 1918 entries concerning repatriation of British POWs from Smyrna. levantineheritage.com
:Also see personal accounts in [[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)#Historical books online|Historical books online]], below.
*Imperial War Museums [http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1030007535 Catalogue entry: Private Papers of Colonel W C Spackman]: Ts memoir (331pp) covering his service as Regimental Medical Officer to the 48th Pioneers, 6th Indian Division in Mesopotamia, 1914 - 1915, at Kut during the siege, December 1915 - April 1916, and as a prisoner of war in Anatolia, 1916 – 1918. An edited version has been published, ''Captured at Kut, Prisoner of the Turks. The Great War Diaries of Colonel William W C Spackman''(available at the British Library UIN: BLL01014822005). In August 1916 he was a prisoner in Mosul, Mesopotamia, where there were many deaths.<ref name=Mos/>
*The Liddle Collection at the University of Leeds has a number of books, manuscripts and tapes, including transcripts in its collection, relating to Prisoners of War in Turkey. For catalogue references, use terms such as prisoner, Turkey in the [http://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore Search]. Includes a photocopy of the book ''The Sufferings of the Kut Garrison during their March into Turkey as Prisoners of War, 1916-1917'' by F A Harvey, Lt & Q-Mr, published 1922. (The author was in the 2nd Battalion, [[54th Regiment of Foot|Dorsetshire Regiment]], and this book was privately printed after his death in 1921, as a memorial. Another photocopy is available at the Imperial War Museums). Note, the actual items do not appear to be available online.
*Foreign Office Files (FO 383) at the National Archives:
