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Fiction
:[http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/EdgarWallace/Smithy/Nobby-JamForTheEnemy.html ''Nobby: Jam for the Enemy''] by Edgar Wallace 1915
:[http://freeread.com.au/@RGLibrary/EdgarWallace/Smithy/NobbyOnGettingCommissions.html ''Nobby On Getting Commissions''] by Edgar Wallace 1915 . Transcriptions from Roy Glashan’s Library formerly FreeRead freeread.com.au.
*[https://archive.org/details/younghildaatwars00gleaiala ''Young Hilda at the Wars''] by Arthur H Gleason 1915 Archive.org. The photograph at the front of the book is stated to be that of Helen, the author’s wife. Other characters in the book are stated to be based on Ambulance drivers Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm who worked as volunteers in Belgium.<ref>[https://booksarchive.google.com.auorg/details/elsiemairigotowa00dian/books?id=FVU0CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT81 A page/126/mode/2up Pages 126-127] from Chapter V, ''Elsie and Mairi Go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front'' by Diane Atkinson. Google Archive.org Booksto Borrow/Lending Library.</ref>
*[http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/sammlungsliste/werksansicht/?no_cache=1&tx_dlf%5Bid%5D=1939&tx_dlf%5Bpage%5D=1 ''Green Envelopes''] No author appears on the title page, however the author is identified as Colonel Lionel James, pre WW1 war correspondent and WW1 Commander of King Edward’s Horse<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200331014345/https://www.ebay.com/itm/WWI-1929-GREEN-ENVELOPES-Letters-from-WESTERN-FRONT-to-a-typical-English-Village-/382194859732 Ebay listing ResurgamBooks (dilapsus)] and Lionel James [http://www.northwoodvillage.org.uk/tchudsonarticles/he-wielded-pen-and-sword-by-t-c-hudson/ "He Wielded Pen and Sword"] northwoodvillage.org.uk</ref>. Published by John Murray London 1929. Letters home from the Front, from many soldiers, to a village in England. A [https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/29136813 review] says "These are the familiar "green envelopes" of active service during the war. ...letters which were really written…" (names changed). The British Library catalogue entry includes the words "A novel", however in the collection of the Australian War Memorial, the book is classified WW1 Personal narratives, British. Digital Collection, Württembergischen Landesbibliothek, Stuttgart, with the library website in German. Read online or download, the latter is "Ganzes Werk herunterladen".
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.167522/page/n9 ''The W Plan''] by Graham Seton 1930 Archive.org. Also see [[Western Front#Machine Guns|Machine Guns]], above.
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