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UNDER REORGANISATION====Official Historieshistories, Despatches despatches and Reportsreports====
*Series ''Peace Handbooks'':'' Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office'': No 54 [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924065780763?urlappend=%3Bseq=395 ''Caucasia]'' HMSO 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available [https://www.wdl.org/en/item/9155 World Digital Library] a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, contributed by Library of Congress.
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookofasiami01greauoft ''A Handbook of Asia Minor: Volume I General. July 1919''] by [Great Britain] Naval Staff Intelligence Department. Archive.org. Note, maps at the end of the book are not included.
*Turkish Official Histories, Turkish language: [https://www.msb.gov.tr/ArsivAskeriTarih/icerik/birinci-dunya-harbi-serisi Birinci Dünya Harbi Serisi / World War I Series] from Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Turkey. Includes maps. If required use [https://translate.google.com.au/#view=home&op=translate&sl=tr&tl=en Google Translate] for the website (not histories). In addition to the Army histories, there is also item 15 ''Birinci Dünya Harbi, Türk Hava Harekatı C.9'' ''Air Operations'', and item 16 ''Birinci Dünya Harbinde Türk Harbi, Deniz Harekâtı C.8'' ''Naval Operations''. Although in respect of another theatre of war the following article discusses the scope and extent of some of the Turkish Official Histories from page 49 [http://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/download/806/928/ "Wasp or Mosquito? The Arab Revolt in Turkish Military History"] by Edward J. Erickson ''British Journal for Military History'', Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2018, pages 44-59. A download to your computer.
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===Historical books online===
*[http://archive.org/stream/furthercorrespon00greauoft#page/n3/mode/2up ''Further correspondence respecting the affairs of Persia. Presented to both Houses of Parliament April 1914''] 1914 Archive.org
*[https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000239.0x000142 ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents: Operations in Persia 1914-1919'']. A confidential publication compiled, by arrangement with the Government of India, under the direction of the Historical Section of The Committee of Imperial Defence, by Brigadier-General FJ Moberly in 1929. British Library India Office Records IOR/L/MIL/17/15/28 on Qatar Digital Library. Download also available.
**[https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32192/page/368 List of those mentioned for distinguished and gallant services] ''The London Gazette'' 11 January 1921 Issue: 32192 page: 368 with an addition [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/32655/supplement/2583 bottom of page 2583] 29 March 1922 Supplement:32655 Page:2583
*:Additional Indian Army regiments mentioned: [[10th Regiment of Jat Infantry|1/10th Jats]], [[39th (The Garhwal Rifle) Regiment of Bengal Infantry|2/39th Garhwal Rifles]], [[2nd Infantry, Hyderabad Contingent|1/95th Russell's Infantry]], [[119th Infantry (The Mooltan Regiment)|119th Infantry]] and [[7th Regiment of Madras Native Infantry|67th Punjabis]]
*Series ''Peace Handbooks'':'' Handbooks prepared under the direction of the Historical Section of the Foreign Office'': No 54 [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/coo.31924065780763?urlappend=%3Bseq=395 ''Caucasia]'' HMSO 1920. Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available [https://www.wdl.org/en/item/9155 World Digital Library] a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, contributed by Library of Congress. *[https://archive.org/details/handbookofasiami01greauoft ''A Handbook of Asia Minor: Volume I General. July 1919''] by [Great Britain] Naval Staff Intelligence Department. Archive.org. Note, maps at the end of the book are not included.*Turkish Official Histories, Turkish language: [https://www.msb.gov.tr/ArsivAskeriTarih/icerik/birinci-dunya-harbi-serisi Birinci Dünya Harbi Serisi / World War I Series] from Ministry of National Defence, Republic of Turkey. Includes maps. If required use [https://translate.google.com.au/#view=home&op=translate&sl=tr&tl=en Google Translate] for the website (not histories). In addition to the Army histories, there is also item 15 ''Birinci Dünya Harbi, Türk Hava Harekatı C.9'' ''Air Operations'', and item 16 ''Birinci Dünya Harbinde Türk Harbi, Deniz Harekâtı C.8'' ''Naval Operations''. Although in respect of another theatre of war the following article discusses the scope and extent of some of the Turkish Official Histories from page 49 [http://bjmh.gold.ac.uk/article/download/806/928/ "Wasp or Mosquito? The Arab Revolt in Turkish Military History"] by Edward J. Erickson ''British Journal for Military History'', Volume 4, Issue 3, July 2018, pages 44-59. A download to your computer.
====General histories etc====
*[https://archive.org/details/warrevolutionina00pric/page/2 ''War and Revolution in Asiatic Russia''] by M Philips Price (Special Correspondent of the ''Manchester Guardian'') 1918 Archive.org.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014621810?urlappend=%3Bseq=17 ''In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919-1920: being the record of a journey to South Russia, the Crimea, Armenia, Georgia and Baku in 1919 and 1920''] by C. E. Bechhofer (full name: Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts). Reprint edition, originally published 1921. HathiTrust Digital Library. The author was a British free-lance journalist.
:[https://archive.org/stream/wandererslogbein00robeiala#page/154/mode/2up "Russia in Ruins"] Chapter VIII, page 155 ''A Wanderer's Log: being some memories of travel in India, the Far East, Russia, the Mediterranean & elsewhere'' by C. E. Bechhofer 1922 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/persia005437mbp#page/n161/mode/2up "Persia and the Great War"] page 154 ''Persia'' by Brigadier General Sir Percy Sykes 1922 Archive.org
:[http://www.jstor.org/stable/20028292 "The British Flag on the Caspian: A Side-Show of the Great War"] by Percy Sykes ''Foreign Affairs'' Vol. 2, No. 2 (Dec. 15, 1923), pp. 282-294. jstor.org. Read online for free, but first you must register, and limits apply, see [[Miscellaneous tips]].
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/inu.32000009934342?urlappend=%3Bseq=50 "The Advance to the Caspian"] pages 24-44 ''Loyalties: Mesopotamia; a personal and historical record, Volume II 1917-1920'' by Sir Arnold Talbot Wilson 1931. HathiTrust Digital Library. Also available as a download from [http://www.kurdipedia.org/?lng=8&q=2013110409340592554 Kurdipedia.org] 1936 edition. Also published under the title ''Mesopotamia, 1917-1920; a Clash of Loyalties''.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.89241 ''The White Armies of Russia: A Chronicle of Counter-Revolution and Allied Intervention''] by George Stewart 1933 Archive.org. Includes four chapters on South Russia.
*[https://archive.org/stream/HIST3750GreatConspiracyAgainstRussia/HIST%203750%20Great%20Conspiracy%20Against%20Russia#page/n37/mode/2up "Southern Campaign"] pages 30-32, "Chapter Vi The War of Intervention", ''The Great Conspiracy Against Russia'' by Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn 1946 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.227014/mode/2up ''Russia and the West in Iran 1918-1948: A Study in Big-Power Rivalry''] by George Lenczowski 1949. Chapters One and particularly Two, include the British involvement. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/caucasian-battlefields-a-history-of-the-wars-on-the-turco-caucasian-border-1828-1921/page/456/mode/2up "Chapter XLI The Turkish Invasion of Transcaucasia, 1918"] pages 457-496 ''Caucasian Battlefields: A History of Wars on the Turco-Causian Border 1828-1921'' by W E D Allen and the late Paul Muratoff [Pavel Pavlovich Muratov] 1953. Archive.org. Contains some references to the British at Baku.
*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015000671613?urlappend=%3Bseq=258 The British in Georgia], page 216, Chapter X, "Independent Georgia 1918-1921" from ''A Modern History of Soviet Georgia'' by David Marshall Lang 1962 HathiTrust Digital Library. [https://archive.org/details/modernhistoryofs0000lang/page/216/mode/2up Page 216] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library version. See External links above for this text plus maps which are not from the text.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.227014volunteerarmyall0000brin/modepage/2up 8 ''Russia The Volunteer Army and the West Allied intervention in Iran 1918South Russia, 1917-1948: A Study 1921; a study in Big-Power Rivalrythe politics and diplomacy of the Russian Civil War''] by George Lenczowski 1949. Chapters One and particularly Two, include the British involvementA Brinkley 1966. Archive.orgBooks to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/anglosovietrelat0000ullm/page/314/mode/2up "The Anglo-Russian Rivalry in the East"], page 315 ''Anglo-Soviet Relations, 1917-1921, Volume 3: The Anglo-Soviet Accord'' by Richard H. Ullman 1972. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes "Persia" Chapter IX page 349.
*[https://archive.org/details/britisharmycrisi0000jeff/page/132/mode/2up "Persia and Mesopotamia"] Chapter 8 page 133 ''The British Army and the Crisis of Empire, 1918-22'' by Keith Jeffery 1984. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/declinefallofott0000palm/page/220 "Germany’s Ally"] Chapter 15, page 221 ''The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire'' by Alan Palmer 1994. The political situation during the WW1 period until 1923 when the Allied occupation of Constantinople came to an end. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/contributions-in-military-studies-edward-j.-erickson-ordered-to-die-a-history-of/page/n3/mode/2up ''Ordered To Die: A History Of The Ottoman Army In The First World War''] by Edward J Erickson 2001. Archive.org
*''The Russian Civil War'' by Evan Mawdsley 2007, first published 2005. [https://archive.org/details/russiancivilwar0000mawd/page/4 File 1], [https://archive.org/details/russiancivilwar00evan/page/7 File 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford ''Eden to Armageddon : World War I in the Middle East''] by Roger Ford 2010. Includes [https://archive.org/details/edentoarmageddon0000ford/page/118/mode/2up Part II "The Caucasus, Armenia, Anatolia and Persia] page 119. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/mode/2up ''The Fall of The Ottomans: The Great War In The Middle East''] by Eugene Rogan 2015. [https://archive.org/details/the-fall-of-the-ottomans-the-great-war-in-the-middle-east_202012/page/n7/mode/2up Contents]. Archive.org.
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.280721/2015.280721.Journal-Of#page/n93/mode/2up "Military Operations in Transcaspia 1918-1919"] by Lt.Col.D E Knollys ''Journal of the Central Asian Society'' Volume 13, 1926 no 2 pp88-110. Archive.org. The author was in charge of the 19th Punjabi Regiment.
====Intelligence and diplomatic missions====
*[https://archive.org/stream/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft#page/200/mode/2up The German spy Wassmuss in South Persia] page 200 Chapter V, ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts'' by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.281644/2015.281644.Journal-Of#page/n41/mode/2up "Bolshevism as I saw it at Tashkent in 1918"] by Sir George MacArtney ''Journal of the Central Asian Society'' Volume 7 1920 Nos 2-3 pp 42-58. Archive.org. Includes comments on the missions of Colonel Bailey and Captain Blacker (see following).
* ''Mission To Tashkent'' by [Lt Col] F M Bailey 1946. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208576 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India. ….”the astonishing adventures of a British intelligence officer working in Central Asia, and his escape from the Bolsheviks”. This Mission is also referred to as the Mission of Lt-Col F. M. Bailey to Kashgar, Jul 1918-Jan 1921 (in a British Library document)
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014437605?urlappend=%3Bseq=25 ''Adventures in the Near East, 1918-1922''] by A Rawlinson, New York edition 1924 (Originally published 1923) Hathi Trust Digital Library. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.175749/page/n3 Archive.org], new and revised edition 1934, mirror from Digital Library of India. The author's [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Alfred_Rawlinson,_3rd_Baronet Wikipedia] page. Also see [[Western Front]] for a book about the author's experience there.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmagazi206edinuoft#page/440/mode/2up "Antranik"] by Liason page 441 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 206 July-December 1919. Archive.org. Includes brief mention of LAMs (probably Machine Gun Corps). Mission to Zangezeur to the Armenian leader Antranik.
*[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3973360 KV 1/17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 1915-1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau]. Link to a free record download from the National Archives, Kew. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C3973358 KV 1/16-19] Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary which may also contain related material. Unclear if this record series contains any information in respect of Turkey etc.*[https://archive.org/details/spiesinarabiathegreatwarandtheculturalfoundationsofbritainscovertempireinthemiddleeastbypriyasatia/mode/2up ''Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East''] by Priya Satia 2008. Archive.org.====Turkey in the post 1918period====
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176573/page/n109 "Turkey. The story of Mudania and Chanak"] Chapter XII page 100 ''Tim Harington Looks Back'' by General Sir Charles Harington 1941 reprint, first published 1940. Archive.org Also including [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.176573/page/n273 "Appendix I. Extract from my Despatch"], (which was never officially published) page 244. [https://archive.org/details/TimHaringtonLooksBack/page/n1 2nd file, images slightly better] Archive.org. General Harington commanded the British Forces in Turkey from October 1920 for three years (following on from General Milne).
*[https://archive.org/details/manatarmsmemoirs0000lawf/page/110/mode/2up "Constantinople" [1922<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 110 ''A Man at Arms : Memoirs of two World Wars'' by Francis Law 1983. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author was born 1897.
*[https://archive.org/stream/blackwoodsmag209edinuoft#page/202/mode/2up "Grief and Glamour of the Bosphorus"] by Lieut- Colonel P R Butler page 203 ''Blackwood’s Magazine'', no 209 January-June 1921. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.284719/page/n181/mode/2up "Struma Valley 1919" [Southern Macedonia<nowiki>]</nowiki>] page 166 ''USI [United Service Institution Of India] Journal'' Vol.lxxii Jan to Oct 1942. Archive.org. Hunting wild fowl, on leave in December 1919 from the author’s regiment in Constantinople.
*[http://books.northwestern.edu/viewer.html?id=inu:inu-mntb-0006254325-bk ''Letters from Cilicia''] by Alice Keep Clark 1924. Northwestern University Libraries Digitized Collection, [https://search.library.northwestern.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01NWU_ALMA51599823460002441&context=L&vid=NULVNEW&search_scope=NWU&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US Catalogue record], however in the process of migrating to theHathiTrust Digital Library. Try contacting the University Librarian if you are interested in this book file. The author was an American, Near East Relief worker 1919-1920, working in Hadjin. The plan was to carry on relief largely in “occupied” territory where the Allies were in control, but in time it proved to be less dangerous in the “unoccupied” regions. Hadjin (Adana Province), where most of the population were Armenian, suffered a Turkish Nationalist siege of the city in 1920, and subsequently fell. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilicia Cilicia] (Wikipedia), bounded to the north and east by the Taurus Mountains. [http://www.midafternoonmap.com/2014/04/3-maps-of-armenian-town-that-exists-no.html 3 Maps of an Armenian Town that Exists No More] midafternoonmap.com.
:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11166361_000 ''Hand Book : Near East Relief''] 1920. Archive.org. An American charitable organisation.
:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11045814_000 ''The Medical Work of the Near East Relief; A review of its accomplishments in Asia Minor and the Caucasus during 1919-20''] edited by Geo. L Richards 1923 Archive.org
====Naval====
*[https://www.naval-review.com/about-the-naval-review/ Online articles from ''The Naval Review'']. '''Update''' Now only available to members, or "Time limited access to the archive is open to researchers and historians after 10 years from an article’s original publishing date for a small administration charge". See [[Royal Navy]] for further comments.
*[https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale'' War in the Air: being the story of the part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'', Volume VI] by H A Jones 1937. Archive.org. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on Official Documents''. Includes Persia.
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/102644345 ''Over the Balkans and South Russia, being the history of no. 47 Squadron, Royal Air Force''] by H.A. Jones 1923. HathiTrust Digital Library, available to those in areas such as North America. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170204072938/https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1924/1924%20-%200022.PDF Contents details]. Available at the British Library UIN: BLL01001895421 . Also reprinted in 1987.
====UnclassifiedMiscellaneous====*[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015014621810?urlappend=%3Bseq=17 ''In Denikin's Russia and the Caucasus, 1919-1920: being the record of a journey to South Russia, the Crimea, Armenia, Georgia and Baku in 1919 and 1920''] by C. E. Bechhofer (full name: Carl Eric Bechhofer Roberts). Reprint edition, originally published 1921. HathiTrust Digital Library. The author was a British free-lance journalist.:[https://archive.org/stream/wandererslogbein00robeiala#page/154/mode/2up "Russia in Ruins"] Chapter VIII, page 155 ''A Wanderer's Log: being some memories of travel in India, the Far East, Russia, the Mediterranean & elsewhere'' by C. E. Bechhofer 1922 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/stream/HIST3750GreatConspiracyAgainstRussia/HIST%203750%20Great%20Conspiracy%20Against%20Russia#page/n37/mode/2up "Southern Campaign"] pages 30-32, "Chapter Vi The War of Intervention", ''The Great Conspiracy Against Russia'' by Michael Sayers and Albert E. Kahn 1946 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/volunteerarmyall0000brin/page/8 ''The Volunteer Army and Allied intervention in South Russia, 1917-1921; a study in the politics and diplomacy of the Russian Civil War''] by George A Brinkley 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*''The Russian Civil War'' by Evan Mawdsley 2007, first published 2005. [https://archive.org/details/russiancivilwar0000mawd/page/4 File 1], [https://archive.org/details/russiancivilwar00evan/page/7 File 2] Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[http://books.northwestern.edu/viewer.html?id=inu:inu-mntb-0006254325-bk ''Letters from Cilicia''] by Alice Keep Clark 1924. Northwestern University Libraries Digitized Collection. [https://search.library.northwestern.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=01NWU_ALMA51599823460002441&context=L&vid=NULVNEW&search_scope=NWU&tab=default_tab&lang=en_US Catalogue record]. The author was an American, Near East Relief worker 1919-1920, working in Hadjin. The plan was to carry on relief largely in “occupied” territory where the Allies were in control, but in time it proved to be less dangerous in the “unoccupied” regions. Hadjin (Adana Province), where most of the population were Armenian, suffered a Turkish Nationalist siege of the city in 1920, and subsequently fell. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilicia Cilicia] (Wikipedia), bounded to the north and east by the Taurus Mountains. [http://www.midafternoonmap.com/2014/04/3-maps-of-armenian-town-that-exists-no.html 3 Maps of an Armenian Town that Exists No More] midafternoonmap.com.:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11166361_000 ''Hand Book : Near East Relief''] 1920. Archive.org. An American charitable organisation.:[https://archive.org/details/ldpd_11045814_000 ''The Medical Work of the Near East Relief; A review of its accomplishments in Asia Minor and the Caucasus during 1919-20''] edited by Geo. L Richards 1923 Archive.org*[https://archive.org/details/mywarexperiences00macnrich ''My War Experiences in Two Continents''] by S MacNaughtan [Sarah] 1919 Archive.org. Based on her diaries. A press cutting states “she is a well-known authoress, whose works have attained a world-wide reputation” (page 167). She worked as an orderly with a Unit in Belgium headed by Mrs St.Clair Stobart, then went as a volunteer to Russia, ending up in the Caucasus, where she fell ill. *[https://archive.org/stream/secretcorpstaleo00tuohuoft#page/200/mode/2up The German spy Wassmuss in South Persia] page 200 Chapter V, ''The Secret Corps : a Tale of "Intelligence" on all Fronts'' by Captain Ferdinand Tuohy 1920 Archive.org *[http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C3973360 KV 1/17 Imperial Overseas Intelligence 1915-1919: Eastern Mediterranean Special Intelligence Bureau]. Link 1916 and returned to England where she died a free record download from the National Archives, Kew. [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C3973358 KV 1/16-19] Includes KV 1/18 Cyprus and KV 1/19 Summary which may also contain related material. Unclear if this record series contains any information in respect of Turkey etc.*[https://archive.org/details/spiesinarabiathegreatwarandtheculturalfoundationsofbritainscovertempireinthemiddleeastbypriyasatia/mode/2up ''Spies few months later in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East''] by Priya Satia 2008. Archive.orgJuly.
*''Diplomacy in the Near and Middle East: A Documentary Record'' by J C Hurewitz 1956. [https://archive.org/details/diplomacyinnearm1956hure/page/n5/mode/2up ''Volume I 1535-1914''], [https://archive.org/details/diplomacyinnearm00hure/page/n7/mode/2up ''Volume II 1914-1956''] Archive.org.
*''Documents on British Foreign Policy, 1919-1939 First Series Volume XII'' HMSO 1962. HathiTrust Digital Library. Certain areas only, may not be viewable in USA.
**Chapter V "Russia February 28, 1920- March 19, 1921".[https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112005146078?urlappend=%3Bseq=75 Contents] page lxxi, [https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112005146078?urlappend=%3Bseq=771 Chapter V page 679]
:[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000059524 HathiTrust Digital Library editions for this series] (viewing conditions differ- some may not be available in USA). [https://web.archive.org/web/20190131182335/https://diplomatic-documents.org/editions/united-kingdom Details] of the volumes (diplomatic-documents.org, archived page)
*[https://archive.org/details/admiraltyvocabul00grearich ''Vocabularies: English, German, Magyar, Serbian, Bulgarian, Roumanian, Greek, Turkish''] Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty. HMSO. 1920 Archive.org
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