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*:''Report on the work of the Seventh Field Survey Company R.E. Egypt, Sinai, Palestine & Syria. December 1916 to October 1918''. [https://www.defencesurveyors.org.uk/historical-papers Historical Papers: Defence Surveyors' Association] Scroll down. [https://fc061d25-33f8-4c65-840c-8ca5bf36650e.filesusr.com/ugd/b9208c_3ab0f671f5f14cebb2b3e2a26c324f4b.pdf Direct pdf]. Elsewhere, source of this document is given as Directorate Military Survey, Feltham, UK, and the report date is from December 1915. 2nd reference is unpublished report by W J Maule, Commanding Officer, to GSGS Map Research and Library Group, DMS Tolworth 1919.
*:[http://hdl.handle.net/11343/24628 "Inland Waterways and Docks, Royal Engineers in War Time, with special reference to the mystery port of Richborough (Lecture & Discussion)"] by Captain A E Battle, RE ''Proceedings of the Victorian Institute of Engineers'' 1923-1924, pages 104-116. Includes Inland Water Transport in Mesopotamia, and brief mention of other theatres of war Egypt, Salonika, East Africa, Italy and Northern Russia. Melbourne University Digital Collection.
*:[http://pahar.in/wpfb-file/1925-records-of-survey-of-india-vol-20-the-war-record-s-pdf/ ''Records of the Survey of India, Volume 20. The War Record 1914-1920''] 1925. If the download button does not display, locate in Books/Survey Of India, or [https://pahar.in/?wpfb_dl=21751 Direct link] PAHAR Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. [https://books.google.com.au/books?vid=MINN:31951000606636w Google Books version], Public Domain in USA(now full view). Work of Royal Engineers of the Survey of India mapping in various theatres of war, in Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, Macedonia, Arabia, Persia, Palestine, East Africa and Afghanistan.
**[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89100004282?urlappend=%3Bseq=13 ''Britain's Sea Soldiers. A Record of the Royal Marines during the War 1914-1919'']. Compiled by General Sir H. E. Blumberg, Royal Marines 1927. HathiTrust Digital Library. May not be accessible in USA etc. Contains a chapter "Royal Marine Artillery Battery in Egypt 1915-1916", page 414. Also available on the Ancestry owned pay website fold3, see [[First World War#Naval|First World War-Historical books online-Naval]].
**''The Post Office of India in the Great War'' edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n95/mode/2up Egypt and Palestine] page 77. The following chapter "The Dardanelles, Salonika and Constantinople 1915-1919" also has some references to Egypt.
