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*[https://archive.org/details/scavengerinfranc00bellrich ''A Scavenger in France : being Extracts from the Diary of an Architect, 1917-19''] by William Bell 1920 Archive.org. The author was a member of the F W V R C, Friends’ War-Victims’ Relief Committee, a Quaker organization.
*[https://archive.org/details/warmemories00croyuoft/mode/2up ''War Memories''] by Princess Marie de Croy 1932 Archive.org. A resident of Belgium, her house was turned into a hospital until the Germans took it over. In 1915 she was convicted by the Germans for sheltering Allied soldiers. Nurse Edith Cavell who was tried at the same time was shot for her part in these activities, however Princess Marie was sent to a civil prison in Germany which held criminals such as murderers and remained there until the war ended in 1918. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie_of_Croÿ Princess Marie of Croÿ] Wikipedia.
*[http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20335 ''The Case of Edith Cavell: A Study of the Rights of Non-Combatants''] by James M Beck [1915]. Reprinted from ''New York Times''. Gutenberg.org
:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.544007/page/n5/mode/2up ''Edith Cavell: The Crime that Shook the World''] by S Theodore Felstead c 1940 Archive.org.
:[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%28Edith%29+AND+title%3A%28Cavell%29+AND+mediatype%3A%28texts%29&sort=date Books about Edith Cavell on Archive.org]
*''History of the American Field Service in France, "Friends of France", 1914-1917, told by its members. With illustrations''. 1920. [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica01unse/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. I], but missing at least pages 8-9, [https://archive.org/details/14310130RX1.nlm.nih.gov/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. I, 2nd file]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica02unse/page/n3/mode/2up Vol. II]; [https://archive.org/details/historyofamerica03unse/page/n9/mode/2up Vol. III] Contains “The Camion Section” and Appendices with Roll of Honor, Roster of Volunteers etc. All Archive.org
:[https://web.archive.org/web/20200122162718/http://www.ourstory.info/library/catalog.html [American<nowiki>]</nowiki> Field Service/Library], now archived, contains transcribed accounts by American volunteers including some who drove ambulances and transport trucks. At least some of these volunteers/possibly all were formally part of the French Army. [https://web.archive.org/web/20101126142340fw_/http://ourstory.info/2/b/2b1index.html Introductory article], same website. Current website [http://www.the-afs-archive.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=itemlist&layout=category&task=category&id=33&Itemid=231 the-afs-archive.org], '''perhaps''' may have some of the accounts mentioned on the old website.
