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Egypt, Palestine, Syria (First World War)

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*[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.
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