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Army Service Corps and others
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b283017?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 ''On the road from Mons with an Army Service Corps Train''] by its commander (Capt. A. Clifton-Shelton, A.S.C.) 2nd edition 1917. HathiTrust Digital Library/
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/46283 ''The Motor-Bus in War: Being the Impressions of an A.S.C. Officer during Two and a Half 
Years at the Front''] by A. M. Beatson (Temp. Lieut. A.S.C.) 1918 Gutenberg.org. The author was an Army Service Corps officer in the Mechanical Transport Supply Column of an Indian Cavalry Division. Elsewhere, the ASC company is recorded as being the 1st Indian Cavalry Division Supply Column which was 89 Coy ASC.<ref>Larkin, Roy. [http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?48009-The-Motor-Bus-in-War-A-M-Beatson-1918&p=434811#post434811 The Motor-Bus in War. A.M.Beatson , 1918] ''Historic Military Vehicle Forum'' 8 February 2015. Retrieved 31 January 2016.</ref>
*[https://archive.org/details/truckingtotrench00kautrich/page/n5/mode/2up ''Trucking to the Trenches; Letters from France, June-November 1917''] by John Iden Kautz 1918 Archive.org. An American, he volunteered with a group of American University volunteers to drive ambulances, but drove instead munition transport trucks, officially part of the French Army. The service was eventually taken over by the American Army, and he transferred to the Quartermaster Corps (transport division). This book also appears on the [https://web.archive.org/web/20200122162718/http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html American Field Service/Library] website, now archived, under the heading "Réserve Mallet truck transport units", [https://web.archive.org/web/20081201233711/http://www.ourstory.info/2/c/Mallet.html more details], archived.:''History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917,'' told by its members. With illustrations. [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/n9/mode/2up ''Vol. III''] more Contains “The Camion Section” Archive.org:[https://archive.org/details/astopatsuzannes00clovgoog/page/n7/mode/2up ''A Stop at Suzanne's: And Lower Flights''] by Greayer Clover 1919. Archive.org. Note poor quality scanning and missing pages at least 24-43, but see [https://web.archive.org/web/20160401162026/http://www.ourstory.info/library/2-ww1/Clover/SuzanneTC.html Transcribed version], (ourstory.info, now archived). Includes Clover's time as a Camion driver. He subsequently joined the aviation service (probably AEF) and died in a flying accident 30 August 1918.
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