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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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**The Indian Army Cavalry regiments are listed from [https://archive.org/stream/desertmountedcor00pres#page/332/mode/2up page 333]
*British Army Infantry regimental histories
** ''A History of the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders) in the Great War 1914-1918'' [in three Volumes] Edited by Major General A G Wauchope 1926. Vol I . 1 includes 2nd Battalion in Mesopotamia and Palestine. Vol III . 3 includes 14th Battalion in Palestine. *:[https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/1/mode/2up ''Volume One''] including [https://digitalarchive.mcmaster.ca/islandora/object/macrepo%3A69526#page/270/mode/2up Palestine] page 271. Digital Archive@McMaster University Library*: [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page1.html ''Volume III Three'' transcribed edition], (OCR derived, so subject to error) including [http://lib.militaryarchive.co.uk/library/infantry-histories/library/A-History-of-The-Black-Watch-Royal-Highlanders-in-the-Great-War-1914-1918-Volume-III/files/assets/basic-html/page329.html Fourteenth Battalion In Palestine] page 317. lib.militaryarchive.co.uk.
*:[http://www.gwpda.org/memoir/Crusaders/Sommers.htm ''Temporary Crusaders''] by Cecil Sommers [Norman Cecil Sommers Down] 1919 Elsewhere it is stated he was Captain, 14th Black Watch (74th Dismounted Yeomanry Division). Based on diary entries November 24th, 1917 to June 17th. 1918. Transcribed version from gwpda.org. Stated elsewhere to be a book in the ''On Active Service'' Series. Also see [[Western Front#Infantry and Others|Western Front - Infantry]] for another book by this author.
**[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.
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