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*[https://archive.org/details/canvasfalconss00long ''The Canvas Falcons: the story of the Men and the Planes of World War I''] by Stephen Longstreet 1970. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_0702600008 ''Warplanes & Air Battles of World War I''] edited by Bernard Fitzsimons. 1973. Archive.org Lending Library. First published in ''Purnell’s History of the First World War'', this publication being a well regarded series of 128 weekly magazines first released in the UK c mid-late 1960s.
*[https://archive.org/details/Coningham/mode/2up ''Coningham: A Biography Of Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC''] by Vincent Orange 1992, first published 1990. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/Coningham/page/n23/mode/2up page 13]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/inteethofwindsto00squa ''In the Teeth of the Wind : the story of a naval pilot on the Western Front, 1916-1918''] by Squadron Leader CPO Bartlett, edited by his son Nick Bartlett 1994. Archive.org Lending Library. Additional front cover title ''Memoir of the Royal Naval Air Service''. Catalogue entry states "Revised edition of: ''Bomber pilot, 1916-1918''. London : Ian Allan Ltd., 1974", the latter edited by Chaz Bowyer.
*[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781559705264 ''Horses Don't Fly''] by Frederick Libby 2000 Archive.org Lending Library. An American who enlisted in the Canadian Army, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, initially as an observer, which included a machine gunner role. He subsequently was commissioned and became a pilot, awarded the Military Cross. [https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/research/online-exhibitions/americans-in-the-royal-air-force/americans-in-the-british-flying-services-1914-1945/captain-frederick-libby.aspx Captain Frederick Libby] rafmuseum.org.uk. [http://www.historynet.com/flying-cowboy-frederick-libby.htm HistoryNet article: "The Flying Cowboy"] by Derek O’Connor.
*[https://archive.org/details/handfulofausseys00thor ''A Handful of Ausseys''] by C. Hampton Thorp, AIF 1919 Archive.org. Part of the series ''On Active Service''. The latter part of the book is about the Western Front.
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=345&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Glimpses of the Great War: Letters of a Subaltern from Three Fronts''] Edited by his wife. 1919. The letters of George Herbert Whyte [London Irish Rifles]. He joined a volunteer hospital unit in France, in 1914, and became a Second Lieutenant in the London Irish Rifles in 1916. He was in France, Macedonia and Malta, Egypt and Palestine, where he died. He was a well known Theosophist. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25528 ''Q. 6. A and Other Places: Recollections of 1916, 1917, and 1918''] by by Francis Buckley 1920. Gutenberg.org. [https://archive.org/details/q6aandotherplaces00buckuoft Archive.org version] Difficult to read online, but download possible. from Jan. 1916 onwards as He was a subaltern, from Jan. 1916 onwards, and later company commander, 1st/7th Bn. Northumberland Fusiliers.
*[https://archive.org/details/galloperatypress00butlrich/page/n7 ''A Galloper at Ypres, and some subsequent adventures''] by Major and Bt- Lieut-Col Patrick Butler, The Royal Irish 1920. Archive.org. Butler was ADC to the General of the 7th Division.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100103993?urlappend=%3Bseq=7 ''The Confessions of a Private''] by Frank Grey, late 8th Royal Berkshire Regiment. 1920. HathiTrust Digital Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/ghostshavewarmha0000bird/page/n5 ''Ghosts have Warm Hands''] by Will R. Bird 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Rated [http://www.edwardlengel.com/canadian-will-birds-ghosts-have-warm-hands-5-best-wwi-memoir/ "#5 Best WWI Memoir"] by Edward Lengel. About 60% of this book consists of much of the content of the earlier publication ''And We Go On'', published 1930, reprinted 2014.<ref>[https://muse.jhu.edu/article/613074 Review: ''And We Go On: A Memoir of the Great War''] Review by Hanna Smyth. muse.jhu.edu</ref> Sometimes classified as fiction, but based on Bird's diaries. Bird served with the 42nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders of Canada (Black Watch), composed largely of men from Ontario and the Maritimes. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_R._Bird Will R. Bird] , a Canadian who became an author.
*[https://archive.org/details/lifeapart0000thom/page/n5 ''A Life Apart''] by Alan Thomas 1968. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Alan Ernest Wentworth Thomas served with the 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment. Elsewhere it is stated he had a varied career, including as a barrister, editor for nineteen years, between 1939 and 1957, of ''The Listener'', and as an author.
*''A Victorian Son: an Autobiography, 1897-1922'' by Stuart Cloete 1973. WW1 period commences [https://archive.org/details/victoriansonauto0000cloe/page/180/mode/2up page 181]. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Cloete Stuart Cloete] (Wikipedia) says he was commissioned into the 9th King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, before later transferring to the Coldstream Guards. He later lived in South Africa and became a novelist.
*[https://archive.org/details/fifteenroundsmin0000jeff/page/n5/mode/2up ''"Fifteen rounds a minute" : the Grenadiers at war, August to December 1914''] Edited from the diaries and letters of Major 'Ma' Jeffries and others by J M Craster 1976. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards.
*[https://archive.org/details/anotherworld189700eden ''Another World, 1897-1917''] by Anthony Eden, Earl of Avon 1977. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Eden served with the 21st (Yeoman Rifles) Battalion of the King's Royal Rifle Corps (KRRC). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Eden Anthony Eden] Wikipedia.
*[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/>
