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*[https://archive.org/details/pushedreturnpush00nich ''Pushed and the Return Push''] by Quex [G H Nichols, RFA] 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/yearsinfrance00roseuoft ''Three Years in France with the Guns : being episodes in the life of a Field Battery''] by C A Rose, late of the Royal Field Artillery. 1919 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19814 Gutenberg.org version] where photographs may be easier to view.
*[https://archive.org/details/fromsommetorhine00ashm/page/n5 ''From the Somme to the Rhine''] by S Ashmead-Bartlett. Dust jacket/book cover has additional wording ''An Intelligence Officer's narrative of the last phase of the Great War'' <ref>Dust Jacket Collector. [https://www.greatwarforum.org/topic/211418-on-active-service-series/?do=findComment&comment=2825244 On Active Service Series] ''Great War Forum'' 27 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.</ref> . [1921] Archive.org. A book in the ''On Active Service'' series. Elsewhere it is stated he was Major Herbert Seabury Hunt Ashmead-Bartlett (known as Seabury) 173 Infantry Brigade, Royal Field Artillery. The author’s war diary for [http://www.phelps-ancestry.co.uk/ancestry/herbert-seabury-hunt-ashmead-bartlett/war-diary-1915/ The Battle of Ypres May 1915]. He appears to be a brother of Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the war correspondent, and had himself briefly worked as a journalist. In 1922, as a condition for an inheritance, he changed his surname to Burdett-Coutts.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirofltcoledw00steeiala ''A Memoir of Lt.-Col. Edward Anthony Steel, RHA and RFA, 1880-1919 : consisting chiefly of his letters and diaries with numerous illustrations''] 1921 Archive.org. During WW1 he was on the Western Front with 35th Battery, briefly in Mesopotamia late 1918/early 1919, and finally posted to Vladivostok with the British Military Mission to Siberia, where he died 17 October 1919 in Omsk, of influenza.
*[http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/OXVU1:LSCOP_OX:oxfaleph011568508 ''The War Diary of the Master of Belhaven, 1914-1918''] by Ralph GA Hamilton 1924. University of Oxford Digital Collection. Alternative [http://dbooks.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/books/PDFs/503077282.pdf direct pdf link], same website. Diary of the Hon. Ralph Gerard Alexander Hamilton, Master of Belhaven. Served as an interpreter with the Expeditionary Force in 1914 until wounded, returned to France in September 1915 as O/C “C” Bty., 108 Bde. Royal Field Artillery, 24th Div. Later rose to command the brigade. Killed in action 31st March 1918.
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