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Mesopotamia Campaign

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**[https://web.archive.org/web/20120819163534/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Water_Mesopotamia/Water_Mesopotamia_01.htm "Watering the Regiment"] from ''The War Illustrated'', 6th July, 1918. "Here, in Mesopotamia, water is life".
**[http://web.archive.org/web/20120721002443/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Mesopotamia/Eden_01.htm "The Fight for the Garden of Eden"] from the book ''Many Fronts''
**[http://web.archive.org/web/20120203001248/http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Mesopotamia/Wounded_01.htm "Wounded in Mesopotamia"] from an official report by [[List of doctors and surgeons#Bombay|Major R Markham Carter]]. [httphttps://web.archive.org/web/20230922183339/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/battles/p_meso_commission.htm Further information] The First World War, The National Archives [httphttps://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/+/https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/index.htm online exhibition], archived.
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/history/podcasts/voices-of-the-first-world-war/podcast-18-mesopotamia Mesopotamia] Imperial War Museums. Podcast 18 in the series ''Voices of the First World War''. Extracts from soldiers accounts, with a transcript of the podcast.
*Transcribed [https://www.tcd.ie/library/fitasfiddles/the-memoirs/beresford/ Diary of Stanley Cyril Beresford Mundey] Captain Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry ([[43rd Regiment of Foot|43rd]]). He went from India to Mesopotamia to rejoin his regiment in May 1915, flew with the RFC as an observing officer from 7th September 1915 (page The Union Jack Was Hoisted) and took part in the Siege of Kut, although there is no account of this period. The account for 1916 covers his time as a POW until December 1916. Trinity College Dublin tcd.ie
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