View source for Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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==Also see==
*[[Actions in Egypt 1914-15]]
*[[Prisoners of the Turks (First World War)]]‎

==External links==
*[http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1919/may/21/indian-cavalry-in-palestine Indian Cavalry In Palestine]. Hansard 21 May 1919 (retrieved  21 June 2014)
*[http://www.nam.ac.uk/online-collection/detail.php?acc=1953-07-25-31 Photograph: 9th Hodson's Horse in General Chauvel's march through Damascus, 2 October 1918]. National Army Museum (retrieved  21 June 2014)
*[http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/18063 Watercolour: Hodson's Horse at Aleppo : encamped about a mile from the town, on the Alexandretta Road 10 November 1918] Imperial War Museums (retrieved  21 June 2014)
*Philately: [http://www.egyptstudycircle.org.uk/Articles/p156QC241.pdf Sinai & Gaza - Part 3: World War I, British Empire and Allies] by Edmund Hall (ESC 239) ''QC (Quarterly Circular)'' September Quarter 2012, p156-165. This is a journal/publication  of the Egyptian Study Circle, UK (Egyptian Philately)
*[http://stampomania.blogspot.com.au/2010/10/bhavnagar-imperial-service-lancers-wwi.html Bhavnagar Imperial Service Lancers – WWI] stampomania.blogspot.com. This regiment   was stationed in Suez Canal, Sinai, Palestine and Syria.

===Historical books online===
*''History of the Great War: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine'': [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/210672  ''From the Outbreak of War with Germany  to June 1917''] by Lieut-General Sir George MacMunn and Captain Cyril Falls HMSO 1928 [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/211976 ''Volume 2 June 1917 to the End of the War: Part 1''] by Cyril B Falls  1930 [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/6782 Volume 2, ''From June 1917 to the End of the War Part II''] by Cyril Falls 1930 . Catalogue links to pdfs. Digital Library of India 
:Online maps, either from the above volumes, or from an additional volume are available through the National Library of Australia's  [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home Search], using  title: Military Operations, Egypt & Palestine/Add limits: Map and Online. From the results select Maps, and Online. Sixteen maps have been noted. 
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/284463 ''The Royal Army Service Corps: A History of Transport and Supply in the British Army, Volume II'']  by Colonel R H Beadon 1931. Link to an Adobe pdf download. Digital Library of India. Includes the First World War period, including Egypt and Palestine.
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/92596 ''The Operations in Egypt and Palestine, 1914 to June, 1917: illustrating the Field Service Regulations''] by A. Kearsey, Late Lieutenant-Colonel, General Staff.  Published Aldershot 1929. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open)
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/236469 ''The Palestine Campaigns''] by Colonel A. P. Wavell 1928. Link to a pdf download. Digital Library of India. A book in the series  ''Campaigns and their lessons.'' 
*[https://archive.org/details/despatchesjune1900murruoft  ''Sir Archibald Murray’s Despatches, June 1916-June 1917''] [The Commander-In-Chief, Egyptian Expeditionary Force]. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/briefrecordofadv00grearich ''A brief record of the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force under the command of General Sir Edmund H. H. Allenby ... July 1917 to October 1918''] Compiled from Official Sources. Second Edition 1919 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/howjerusalemwasw00mass ''How Jerusalem was won : being the record of Allenby's campaign in Palestine''] by W T Massey, Official Correspondent of the London Newspapers with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1920 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/desertmountedcor00pres  ''The Desert Mounted Corps : An Account of the Cavalry Operations in Palestine and Syria, 1917-1918''] by Lieut –Colonel RMP Preston 1921 Archive.org
**The Indian Army Cavalry regiments are listed from [https://archive.org/stream/desertmountedcor00pres#page/332/mode/2up page 333]
*IOR/L/MIL/17/6/78 [http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/FullDisplay.aspx?ref=ior/l/mil/17/6/78 ''History of the 15th Imperial Service Cavalry Brigade during the Great War 1914-1918''] London: HMSO, 1920. Includes maps. Digitised Manuscripts from the India Office Records, British Library
** The Brigade appears to have spent the War in Egypt and Palestine. The constituent regiments include the Kathiawar Signal Troop, Hyderabad Lancers, Mysore Lancers including two troops  Bhavnagar Lancers and one troop   Kashmir Lancers, Patiala Lancers and Jodhpur Lancers
*[https://archive.org/details/withourarmyinpal00blue ''With Our Army in Palestine''] by Antony Bluett, late of “A” Battery,  H A C  and Egyptian Camel Transport Corps  1919 Archive.org
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/182312  ''Boundary Riders of Egypt''] by Lieut. H Bowden Fletcher 1919. The Australian Light Horse in Egypt. State Library of Victoria.
*[https://archive.org/details/cameliers00hogurich ''The  Cameliers''] by Oliver Hogue 1919.  Archive.org. The Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt, Sinai and Palestine.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Came.html ''With the Cameliers in Palestine''] by John Robertson, formerly of the Fourth Battalion of the Imperial Camel Brigade, T. Major New Zealand Mounted Rifles.  1938.  New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
*[https://archive.org/details/withbritisharmyi00lockrich ''With the British Army in the Holy Land''] by Major H O Lock Dorsetshire Regiment 1919 Archive.org. 
*[https://archive.org/details/throughpalestine17109gut ''Through Palestine with the 20th Machine Gun Squadron''] [Cavalry] 1920  Project Gutenberg at Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianimperi07gulluoft ''The Australian Imperial Force in Sinai and Palestine, 1914-1918''] by H S Gullett 1923 Archive.org.  ''Volume VII, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918''
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1MRif.html ''The Mounted Riflemen in Sinai and Palestine: The Story of New Zealand's Crusaders''] by A. Briscoe Moore late Lieut. Auckland Mounted Rifles. Illustrated by photographs taken with the N.Z.M.R.Brigade in the field. c 1920 New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Sina.html ''The New Zealanders in Sinai and Palestine''] by Lieut.-Colonel. C. Guy Powles, Brigade Major N.Z.M.R. Brigade 1914-1916 , A.A. & Q M.G Anzac Mounted Division 1916-1918. From material compiled by Major A. Wilkie, W.M.R. 1922. New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
*[http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/199044 ''2/4 Battalion. Hampshire Regiment 1914-1919''] Published 1920?. State Library of Victoria. (May be slow to open). The Battalion was in India January 1915-April 1917, where it provided many drafts for Mesopotamia, and was then in Palestine and France.
*[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-WH1-Mach.html ''With the Machine Gunners in France and Palestine''] by Major J. H. Luxford N.Z.M.G.C. 1923 New Zealand Electronic Text Collection
*[https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns02dane  ''British Campaigns in the Nearer East, 1914-1918. From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice: Volume II The Tide of Victory''] by Edmund Dane , Military Correspondent of the ''Westminster Gazette'' 1919 Archive.org ([https://archive.org/details/britishcampaigns01dane ''Volume I'']) 
*''War in the Air: being the story of the part played  in the Great War by the Royal Air Force'', Volumes II-VI by H A Jones. [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto05rale Volume V] 1935, [https://archive.org/details/warinairbeingsto06rale Volume VI] 1937. Part of the series ''History of the Great War based on official documents''. Include Egypt and Palestine. Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/insideshows01stangoog ''In the Side Shows''] by Captain Wedgewood Benn 1919 Archive.org. The author was a Member of Parliament and joined the Middlesex Yeomanry, with whom he served at Gallipoli. He subsequently became military observer attached to the Royal Naval Air Service, East Indies and Egypt Seaplane Squadron. 
*[https://archive.org/details/withramcinegypt00serjuoft ''With the R.A.M.C. in Egypt''] by Serjeant-Major, R.A.M.C 1918 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/australianarmyme00barruoft ''The Australian Army Medical Corps in Egypt; an illustrated and detailed account of the early organisation and work of the Australian medical units in Egypt in 1914-1915''] by James W Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC and Lieut P E Deane AAMC, Quartermaster, First Australian General Hospital, Egypt 1918 Archive.org. [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/41911/41911-h/41911-h.htm Gutenberg.org version] with  photographs which may be enlarged.
*[https://archive.org/details/visionofpossible00barr ''A vision of the possible; what the R.A.M.C. might become; an account of some of the medical work in Egypt together with a constructive criticism of the R.A.M.C''] by James W Barrett, Temporary Lieut-Col RAMC 1919
*[https://archive.org/details/onanzactrailbein00anzauoft ''On the Anzac Trail : being Extracts from the Diary of a New Zealand Sapper''] by 'Anzac' 1916 Archive.org. The author joined a NZ unit in London. Includes some chapters covering the stay in Egypt prior to Gallipoli. 
*[http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100022556629.0x000002# ''The 74th (Yeomanry) Division in Syria and France''] by  Major C. H. Dudley Ward 1922 access.bl.uk British Library
*[https://archive.org/details/diaryofyeomanrym00teicrich ''The Diary of a Yeomanry M.O. : Egypt, Gallipoli, Palestine and Italy''] by Captain O Teichman RAMC (T F) 1921 Archive.org
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/466 ''The Truth About Mesopotamia Palestine and Syria''] by John de Vere Loder 1923. Link to a pdf. Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp ''The Memoirs Of Sir Ronald Storrs''] 1937 Archive.org. The author worked in Egypt in from 1904, initially in the Egyptian Civil Service, subsequently as Oriental Secretary (British Foreign Office)
**[https://archive.org/stream/memoirsofsirrona001290mbp#page/n319/mode/2up Palestine from December 1917] page 287. The author was in Palestine in December 1917, and subsequently was appointed Military Governor of Jerusalem
*[https://archive.org/details/prisonersofredde00gwat ''Prisoners of the red desert, being a full and true history of the men of the "Tara"''] by Captain  Rupert Stanley  Gwatkin-Williams RN 1919 Archive.org.  HMS Tara was sunk by a German submarine  near Sollum, Egypt in 1915. The surviving crew  were handed over to the Senussi, allies of the Turks and were held prisoners  at Bir Hakkim (Bir el Hakim) in Libya until rescued in 1916 in dramatic circumstances by British Armoured Cars under the command of the Duke of Westminster.
*[https://archive.org/details/easternnightsand00bottiala ''Eastern Nights--and Flights; a Record of Oriental Adventure''] by Alan Bott 1920 Archive.org  The author was a scout pilot in Palestine, who became, after his plane crashed in 1918,   a prisoner of the Turks, eventually in Afion-Kara-Hissar in Turkey. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Bott Alan Bott] Wikipedia.
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89081845935?urlappend=%3Bseq=255 ''The Escaping Club'': "Part II"]  [page 241]  by A. J. Evans 1922 Hathi Trust Digital Library. The author, a POW had escaped from   Germany in June 1917.  In March 1918, while on a bombing raid in Palestine his plane came down. He was captured by Arabs, along with two others, and subsequently became prisoners of the Turks.
*[https://archive.org/details/inbrigandshandst00forduoft ''In Brigands' Hands and Turkish Prisons, 1914-1918''] by A Forder  1920 Archive.org The author was an American missionary  who was taken prisoner in Jerusalem  in November 1914 and  jailed by the military He was a prisoner in Damascus for four years until the British occupation.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924027811458 ''With the Turks in Palestine''] by Alexander Aaronsohn 1916. Also an [https://archive.org/details/withturkspalestine_1301_librivox Librivox audio recording] Archive.org

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