Imperial War Museum (Department of Documents)
Papers of:
Anonymous account of battle of Mons (2304), Royal Fusiliers
Major-General S. C. M. Archibald, Royal Field Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel C. S. Baines, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Commander H. P. Baylis, Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve
Lieutenant-Colonel R. Blewitt, Royal Field Artillery
Corporal J. Bremner, Royal Garrison Artillery
Major C. L. Brereton, Royal Field Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel N. O. Burge, Royal Marines
Lieutenant-Colonel T. B. Butt, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Major-General A. R. Chater, Royal Marines
Bombardier S. W. Crowsley, Royal Horse Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel H. M. Dillon, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Brigadier-General Alan Durand, Royal Field Artillery
Captain C. H. Gaskell, Wiltshire Regiment
Lieutenant E. S. Hacker, Army Service Corps
General Aylmer Haldane, 10th Infantry Brigade
Private D. Harrop, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment
Major-General John Headlam, CRA 5th Division
Colonel Cyril Helm, Royal Army Medical Corps
Private Samuel Knight, Welch Regiment
Major E. G. Lutyens, Royal Field Artillery
Sergeant John McIlwain, Connaught Rangers
Captain W. G. Morritt, East Surrey Regiment
Major John Mowbray, Royal Field Artillery
Captain H. B. Owens, Royal Army Medical Corps
Lieutenant-Colonel J. V. Ramsden, Royal Field Artillery
Brigadier-General H. C. Rees, Welch Regiment
Brigadier-General G. R. P. Roupell, East Surrey Regiment
Major-General T. D. O. Snow, GOC 4th Division
Lieutenant-Colonel A. V. Spencer, Oxford and Bucks Light Infantry
Lieutenant-Colonel K. F. B. Tower, Royal Fusiliers
Lieutenant-Colonel T. S. Wollocombe, Middlesex Regiment
Second-Lieutenant N. L. Woodroffe, Irish Guards
Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, King’s College, London
Papers of:
Brigadier-General C. R. Ballard, Norfolk Regiment
Brigadier-General J. E. Edmonds, Official Historian
Brigadier-General W. A. F. Kerrich, Royal Engineers
Colonel R. MacLeod, Royal Field Artillery
Captain H. L. Slingsby, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Captain G. C. Wynne, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Liddle Collection, Brotherton Library, University of Leeds
Papers of:
Captain Roger Chance, 4th Royal Dragoon Guards
Lieutenant Kenneth Hooper, East Lancashire Regiment
Major-General R. C. Money, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles)
Captain C. J. Patterson, South Wales Borderers
Brigadier-General C. de Sausmarez, Royal Garrison Artillery
Major G. N. Stockdale, West Yorkshire Regiment
National Archive, Kew
CAB 45 series (Official History material):
CAB 45/129; CAB 45/140; CAB 45/141; CAB 45/142; CAB 45/157; CAB 45/182; CAB 45/195; CAB 45/196; CAB 45/197; CAB 45/206.
WO 95 series (War Diaries and related material):
WO 95/588; WO 95/629; WO 95/668; WO 95/706; WO 95/1112; WO 95/1439; WO 95/1477; WO 95/1482; WO 95/1488; WO 95/1510; WO 95/1558.
(Place of publication London unless stated otherwise)
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Bond, R. C., History of the KOYLI in the Great War (P. Lund, Humphries, 1926)
Brereton, J. M., A History of the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards (privately pub., 1982)
Crookenden, Arthur, The History of the Cheshire Regiment in the Great War (Chester: W. H. Evans, 1935)
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Foss, Michael, The Royal Fusiliers (Hamish Hamilton, 1967)
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French, Viscount, 1914 (Constable, 1914)
Gillespie, A. D., Letters from Flanders (Smith Elder, 1916)
Gleichen, A. E. W., The Doings of the Fifteenth Infantry Brigade August 1914 to March 1915 (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1917)
Gough, Hubert, Soldiering On (Arthur Barker, 1954)
Haldane, Aylmer, A Brigade of the Old Army 1914 (Arnold, 1920)
Hammerton, John (ed.), I Was There, Vol. I (Amalgamated Press, 1914–15)
Hanbury-Sparrow, A. A., The Land-Locked Lake (Arthur Barker, n.d. [1932])
Hay, M. V. [an Exchange Officer], Wounded and a Prisoner of War (Edinburgh, 1916)
Herbert, Aubrey, Mons, Anzac and Kut (Arnold, 1919)
Home, Archibald, The Diary of a World War I Cavalry Officer (Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Costello, 1985)
Hyndson, J. G. W., From Mons to the First Battle of Ypres (privately pub., 1932)
Hodgson, C. F., From Hell to the Himalayas (Westville, S. Africa: King and Wilks, 1983)
Kluck, Alexander von, The March on Paris and the Battle of the Marne 1914 (Arnold, 1920)
Lloyd, R. A., A Trooper in the ‘Tins’ (Hurst and Blackett, 1938)
Longley, C. W. [Wagger], Battery Flashes (New York: Dutton, 1916)
Lucy, J. F., There’s a Devil in the Drum (Faber, 1938)
Martin, Arthur A., A Surgeon in Khaki (Arnold, 1915)
Maze, Paul, A Frenchman in Khaki (Heinemann, 1934)
Mills, Arthur [Platoon Commander], With My Regiment from the Aisne to La Bassée (Heinemann, 1915)
Montgomery, Lord, Memoirs (Collins, 1958)
Osburn, Arthur, Unwilling Passenger (Faber, 1932)
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Richards, Frank, Old Soldiers Never Die (Anthony Mott, 1983; original ed., 1933)
Robertson, William, From Private to Field Marshal (Constable, 1921)
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